Thankfully he’s joined by another character for much of his adventure, Nuri, who’s much more likeable. He’s mopey, a little whiney and the way he’s written feels like he’s always a step behind where the player is.
Geron channels the spirit of downtrodden Millennial a little too well for a fantasy character. The narrative stumbles aren’t helped any by a main cast of characters which lack distinguishing personality. Cut scenes separate each chapter and the game then plonks you in a new area with new problems to solve. The first 3 chapters are much more balanced but don’t flow into one another as naturally as they possibly could have. It’s not the crescendo finish that the game hints at for its majority. The 5th and final chapter then just rockets by, moving at a much more rapid pace with simple obstacles to overcome. It’s a thick chapter with a lot of detail to absorb and exposition to take in. Chapter 4, for example, is very condensed with a hefty lattice of linked puzzles to overcome that can take hours of trial and error to solve. Broken down into 5 different chapters, each has a very different pace and feeling to it. Unfortunately, the narrative often feels a little disjointed. While I won’t spoil the finer points, a lot of stuff happens in Chains of Satinav. This acts as the catalyst for a series of events that has the bird catcher meet a fairy, travel across Aventuria, skirt around Orcs, travel through magic portals, try desperately not to fulfil old prophecies and hopefully save Andergast from an old foe. This prediction had lived with the bird catcher ever since with the people of the City, who’re notoriously superstitious, ostracising him.Īt the start of The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, Geron is attempting to win a city wide competition, much to the chagrin of the other competitors. As The Seer was burned at the stake for his crimes, he claimed to have foreseen a future in which Geron would bring about bad luck for Andergast.
Years earlier, an evil doer known as The Seer failed in his evil plan to overthrow the kingdom. Players take control of a bird catcher called Geron who lives a meagre and pretty miserable existence. The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav is set in the Kingdom of Andergast.
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