History VideoGame / DreamfallChapters

* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Zoë]] is pregnant in the epilogue.

The third game of the ''VideoGame/TheLongestJourneySaga'', ''Dreamfall Chapters'' is the episodic sequel to the 2006 ActionAdventure game ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney''. Although announced back in 2007, it only [[http://www.funcom.com/news/pre_production_begins_on_new_game_in_the_longest_journey_saga entered pre-production in 2012]], since most of its key personnel (including the original creator, Ragnar Tørnquist) had their hands full with ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''. The game has been [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey funded via Kickstarter]], raising over $1.5 million from almost 22,000 pledges, which was about 180% of the original goal. With the extra money it was possible to add Linux and Mac versions, new language localizations and more content do the game (essentially a Director's Cut and developer commentaries), all of which had to be cut earlier in order to make room to a smaller goal. The first episode, ''Book One: Reborn'', was released on 21 October 2014.

* ReplayValue / RewatchBonus: During 2017, when it was given a "Remaster", many who played the game episode-by-episode through 2014 - 2016 were suggested to play it again. Part of the reason was for the changes and the AntiFrustrationFeatures, but also because some of the foreshadowing was written off as nothing by the player with the individual books' releases being months apart. Among the most notable, [[spoiler: the fact that Queenie is Saga from the future. By the time old Lady Alvane appears, Queenie has been long gone and most didn't notice that the voices match, or even that Saga ''also'' somehow has Zoë's bottle of Biju and talks about a robotic dragonfly]].

Please put tropes concerning characters introduced in this game to its '''[[Characters/DreamfallChapters character list]]''', and tropes common to the series to '''[[VideoGame/TheLongestJourney the series page]]'''.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Several collector's editions of ever-increasing size have been offered as Kickstarter incentives, with the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Draic Kin]] Edition definitely taking the cake.

* LullDestruction: Crow decides to fill almost every silent moment with whatever is on his mind at the moment later on.

** At the end of Book Two, there is a playable cutscene where you chase down [[spoiler:Nela as she runs to suicide bomb an EYE checkpoint]]. Even if you do absolutely nothing or even run in the opposite direction, the game will just assume you did as you were told and play [[StoryOverwrite the actual cutscene]] that follows [[CutsceneDrop right on cue]]. A later update addressed this, providing an alternate cutscene that accounts for
players who take the second option. The end result doesn't change, however.

** At the end of Book Two, there is a playable cutscene where you chase down [[spoiler:Nela as she runs to suicide bomb an EYE checkpoint]]. Even if you do absolutely nothing or even run in the opposite direction, the game will just assume you did as you were told and play [[StoryOverwrite the actual cutscene]] that follows [[CutsceneDrop right on cue]]. A later update addressed this, providing an alternate cutscene that accounts for players who take the second option. The end result doesn't change, however.

* GoodAllAlong: Falk, in a way. [[spoiler: He was actually protecting Zoë on orders of her mother.]]

** One of the paintings hanging in the House of All Worlds is a copy of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks Nighthawks]], with Etta and Magnus in place of the couple at the bar.

* SyntheticPlague: In Book Four, it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Azadi are working on a plague that will target any creature touched by magic. The plague that killed half the Dolmari was the prototype. The one they have running now will reliably kill children of any magical species]].

* {{Technobabble}}: While some of the people playing the game might understand most of what Ferdows tells Kian about [[spoiler:the Engine (it's basically [[SufficientlyAdvancedBambooTechnology a huge steampunk computer]] in the Tower linked together with data sources from all over Marcuria via the pipe networks), it all flies over his head and he has to repeatedly tell the scientist [[LaymansTerms to explain it to him as if he was just a guy with a sword]].]]
* ThatCameOutWrong: Conversations with Enu typically involve this happening once or twice.

* IdleAnimation: If the townspeople in Marcuria are dancing, have Zoe stand still for a few moments, and she'll eventually start dancing along.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: When Zoe finally wakes up from dreaming in Book Five, she appears to be back in her hospital room in Casablanca. Soon she finds that it's littered with photos of false happy memories implanted to keep her in that room, which turns out to be a lab imprisoning her. In a twist on that trope, everything she has been dreaming has been real, since when she dreams herself to Stark or Arcadia she projects a physical copy of her body there.]]

** Zoe refers to Ben-Bandu as an [[Franchise/StarWars Ewok]].

** [[spoiler: Zoe with her head shaved and neural access ports all over it, and in a futuristic jumpsuit, just seconds after seeing her as we normally see her.]]

** When Zoë first enters Garden Green, her description of Abnaxus' house will make her compare it to [[/Literature/TheLordOfTheRings a hobbit house]] and reminding her of [[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki a Miyazaki movie]].

** When Zoë first enters Garden Green, her description of Abnaxus' house will make her compare it to [[/Literature/LordOfTheRings a hobbit house]] and reminding her of [[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki a Miyazaki movie]].

The third game of the ''VideoGame/TheLongestJourney'' series, ''Dreamfall Chapters'' is the episodic sequel to the 2006 ActionAdventure game ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney''. Although announced back in 2007, it only [[http://www.funcom.com/news/pre_production_begins_on_new_game_in_the_longest_journey_saga entered pre-production in 2012]], since most of its key personnel (including the original creator, Ragnar Tørnquist) had their hands full with ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''. The game has been [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey funded via Kickstarter]], raising over $1.5 million from almost 22,000 pledges, which was about 180% of the original goal. With the extra money it was possible to add Linux and Mac versions, new language localizations and more content do the game (essentially a Director's Cut and developer commentaries), all of which had to be cut earlier in order to make room to a smaller goal. The first episode, ''Book One: Reborn'', was released on 21 October 2014.

* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Zoe doesn't seem to care at all about the - probably innocent - man who is being tortured by Mr. London's Mooks. You have no option to even try to save him, even though it's pretty clear he will be killed soon. Granted, she's in no position to save him from a bunch of mobsters, but you'd think she'd at least comment on it.

** The racist "Front" talks about how bad the magicals are...
** Note the somewhat middle eastern motif of the Azadi.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Azadi play an antagonistic role in both this game and Dreamfall - and even many of ''them'' find the idea of [[spoiler: exterminating all magicals]] to be either going too far or simply not right. The events at Ge'en cause a lot of them to be absolutely disgusted.
* FantasticRacism: Which is handled with a surprising amount of depth and nuance. The Azadi's determination to exterminate magicals is only the most obvious manifestation.
** The Azadi also have a complex hierarchy of human worth that is informed by intersections of class, race, and religion; for example, a cutscene reveals that an infidel's testimony cannot be used against a Trueborn.
** Additionally, Vamon resents Kian, who is of low birth, for essentially rising above his station.

* FailedASpotcheck:

* FiveFiveFive: The MythologyGag below has a phone number that begins with this.

* HeroicSacrifice: Shitbot/Kidbot performs this. ItMakesSenseInContext.
** [[spoiler: Kian]] also does this at the end, but [[NotQuiteDead got better]].

* HollywoodHacking: Played with - Zoë must search for random access points to a cloud database to download data from, swapping accounts and locations to make her harder to track. Justified in that Mira designed the software to do most of the work for her.

* LeastCommonSkinTone: Averted - While it's rather dark to see specifics, Europolis has a fair amount of residents who are of Asian or North African descent.

* MotorMouth: Crow becomes more and more loquacious as the game goes on.

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* ParentalSubstitute: Kian is rapidly shaping up to be this for Bip.
** It's also revealed that [[spoiler: Mother Utana and General Hami were this for Kian]] and that [[spoiler: Kian became one for Saga]].

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The resistance in Marcuria.

* ScienceIsBad: Arcadia is the world of magic, and apparently the only way to introduce advanced science/technology is to eradicate all magicals.

** In-Universe, [[spoiler: in Book Five, Zoe notices that Wonkers is not himself, speaking much lower and more robotically than he normally does, giving an aural representation of this concept. When the scene ends, he reverts to his normal attitude and tone.]]
** Also In-Universe, [[spoiler: when Zoe looks at the photographs of memories she doesn't have, they glitch and revert to her real memories, providing a visual representation of this Uncanny Valley to match Wonkers with his aural one.]]
* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: Mr. London tells Zoe a story about a merchant who offered to sell a great soldier a spear that can pierce any armor and a shield that cannot be pierced. In London's telling, when the soldier pointed out the contradiction, the merchant killed him with the spear and shield.

* WhamEpisode: Zoë's segment at the end of Book Two. [[spoiler: Depending on your choices, two of Zoë's friends have wound up dead - one of them even sets a bomb off right in front of you.]]

* WhereItAllBegan: Happens to the whole saga at the end of Dreamfall Chapters. [[spoiler:''The Longest Journey'', the first game of the Saga, begins at the House of All Worlds with Lady Alvane telling April Ryan's story. Dreamfall Chapters ends at this same place with Lady Alvane, who is revealed to be old Saga, meeting April Ryan from the past. Bonus points that back in ''The Longest Journey'' Lady Alvane did mention that the story ends where it begins.]]

''Dreamfall Chapters'' is the episodic sequel to the 2006 ActionAdventure game ''VideoGame/DreamfallTheLongestJourney''. Although announced back in 2007, it only [[http://www.funcom.com/news/pre_production_begins_on_new_game_in_the_longest_journey_saga entered pre-production in 2012]], since most of its key personnel (including the original creator, Ragnar Tørnquist) had their hands full with ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''. The game has been [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey funded via Kickstarter]], raising over $1.5 million from almost 22,000 pledges, which was about 180% of the original goal. With the extra money it was possible to add Linux and Mac versions, new language localizations and more content do the game (essentially a Director's Cut and developer commentaries), all of which had to be cut earlier in order to make room to a smaller goal. The first episode, ''Book One: Reborn'', was released on 21 October 2014.

Please put tropes concerning characters introduced in this game to its '''[[Characters/DreamfallChapters character list]]'''.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Saga]] does this.

* NoodleIncident: How Crow and Zoë get their hands on an Elgwan to take them to Riverwood. According to the NoodleImplements, it was a ZanyScheme, involving Zoë disguising herself as a man, complete with a fake beard, while having Crow voicing her to prevent LarynxDissonance.

** Zoe's old room in Casablanca also returns, [[spoiler: although it is not real and you soon notice something is very off.]]

** In the third Interlude in Book Four, examining a chair will cause Saga to remark that it's "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus the comfy chair]]", and isn't quite sure where that came from.
*** This continues when one of the final "goals" in the game is to [[ItMakesSenseInContext sit in... the comfy chair]]"

** When Zoe first enters Garden Green, her description of Abnacus' house will make her compare it to [[/Literature/LordOfTheRings a hobbit house]] and reminding her of [[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki a Miyazaki movie]].

* LampshadeHanging: When Zoë looks at the window of her apartment, she comments about how it is always raining outside the window but when she gets out it stops raining.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: In Book 5, [[spoiler:Brian Westhouse and Helena Chang have all but won and activate the Engine and Eingana to remake the universe. But in doing so, they break down the barriers between reality and Storytime, allowing Zoë to use her Dreamer powers in Stark and save the universe.]]

* StraightGay: Kian.