Remasters and remakes may have become a touch too common in gaming these days, but it seems there's still plenty of room in the market for those with some actual effort put into them. As with the 2020 Demon's Souls remake and now again with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered fans are absolutely still ready to either revisit old classics or try them out for the first time. And since Syberia - Remastered is confirmed for release this year, players will soon have another chance to do exactly that.
For those who need a bit of a refresher, Syberia takes place during the early 2000s in a fictional version of the world wherein clockwork technology, and clockwork robots (known as "automatons") in particular, saw much more development and much wider applications than in our world.
The story follows Kate Walker, a lawyer based in New York who is suddenly sent to a remote mountain village in France in order to complete the sale of an old automaton factory. Unfortunately for Kate, the owner of the factory and genius inventor, Hans Voralberg, isn't home. He has, as it turns out, left on a journey in search of the lost...