A New Beginning

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Summary

A New Beginning is a cinematic, interactive adventure-thriller that deals with the defining issue of our time. In a story ripped from today’s headlines, an impending global climate cataclysm threatens the world. At locations all around the globe, players will have to try and stem the tide – with the whole world hanging in the balance.

Scientist Bent Svensson has had to give up on his life’s work of trying to bring an eco-friendly alternative energy source to reality. But his existence as a reluctant retiree is interrupted by a very strange visitor: The young Fay claims to have been sent from the future to prevent an impending environmental catastrophe. The only remaining hope is Bent’s research which is about to fall into the hands of an unscrupulous energy magnate. Bent decides to trust the young woman – but could she really be telling the truth?

In A New Beginning, players take control of the two protagonists and explore the detailed, hand-painted backgrounds in classic point-and-click style. The more than 50 characters are rendered in a striking graphic-novel style and are painstakingly animated by hand in feature-film quality.

Features:
The masterpiece from the makers of The Whispered World and Edna & Harvey: The Breakout
A mature adventure-thriller that deals with the defining issue of our times
The greatest 2D adventure game of all time: More than 100 backgrounds, over 20 hours of gameplay, 52 voiced characters
Unique graphic novel art style with more than 40 minutes of animated comic book cutscenes


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A New Beginning Reviews & Ratings

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Review by Snimens [user]
August 4, 2020

An uncomplicated plot, about the eternal question "What will happen next?" adventure tells us about one of the possible options for theAn uncomplicated plot, about the eternal question "What will happen next?" adventure tells us about one of the possible options for the development of the future, even in the key of fiction but no less heated and interesting, adequate gameplay-clicker, thoughtful but not without shoals of characters, and all under the sauce of not difficult puzzles, I recommend to all fans of the genre.

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Review by Mattia9336 [user]
January 6, 2020

Awesome visuals, nice soundtrack and ok story. The puzzles are well designed and not too hard. The game suffers of some glitches but they'reAwesome visuals, nice soundtrack and ok story. The puzzles are well designed and not too hard. The game suffers of some glitches but they're not too gamebreaking or anything like that. Overall, it's a good experience

100
Review by Fabonymous [user]
March 5, 2016

A New Beginning is a beautiful adventure game. It is not perfect, but the low ratings do the game by far not justice. The puzzles areA New Beginning is a beautiful adventure game. It is not perfect, but the low ratings do the game by far not justice. The puzzles are challenging without being frustrating. But the main reason to play this game is its story and the atmosphere. Especially outstanding is the narrative technique that is used. It is told like a graphic novel and has two main characters and storylines that unfold in parallel.The game does also have its bad sides, like low resolution graphics and over complicated controls. But luckily these issues fade away as one gets used to it and sucked in by the story.

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Review by bencao74 [user]
February 27, 2015

Very strong and broken characters, beautiful setting and melancholic story. One of the best adventures from Daedalic , and I`ve played themVery strong and broken characters, beautiful setting and melancholic story. One of the best adventures from Daedalic , and I`ve played them all. Check Whispered World also

60
Review by mezhulol [user]
July 8, 2013

Huge potential reduced by a below average implemention is the best way to describe this game. This point and click adventure has anHuge potential reduced by a below average implemention is the best way to describe this game. This point and click adventure has an interesting story, and the visual aesthetic of delivering it is well executed. The puzzles are pretty entertaining and of casual difficulty most of the time, with a few exceptions of totally illogical sequences. Where this game fails itself is the sound. The voice acting is the worst I've encountred in a really long time- all characters have colourless, almost robotic voices that instantly kill any latent character development. The rest of the audio is also very weak- no memorable musical theme, zero ambience, no effort to create any atmosphere whatsoever. Last but not least, there's an annoying amount of bugs to be found, from delayed sounds to repeating cutscenes and events.All in all, A New Beginning is a game that an adventure fan will surely enjoy, at least with a bit of patience. It does however do surprisingly well at overemphasizing its' own weak points than promoting the good ones, thus failing to be noticeable near the genre's good games that tend to get ever rarer nowadays.

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Game Information
Release Date December 11, 2012
Publisher Daedalic Entertainment, Lace Mamba Global
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives Side view
Genres Point-and-click, Adventure
Themes Fantasy, Historical, Non-fiction, Educational
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows)