I’m reviving this 17-year-old thread because I can. I played through the first ~2/3s of Syberia.
This game is absolutely crazy. It is a game about someone who creates brilliant machines. However the game itself functions like a bad machine with extremely slow walking speeds, hotlinks that only sometimes highlight, and tables and room corners that you never knew existed.
The icing on the cake is that, after solving moon logic puzzles with your own wits (or, if you’re me, a walkthrough), you have to deal with a bureacratic robot automaton that sends you on countless menial backtracking missions. Contrary to the OP’s comments on voice acting, I am deeply sympathizing with Kate Walker’s voice actress’ frustrated voice acting here.
It’s a good thing it looks so good and the story is so intriguing, because I am genuinely invested in it. But I have to watch a Let’s Play instead… I’m sorry, I can’t keep playing.
Btw, the reason I own this is because it shares a developer/publisher and voice actress with Return to Mysterious Island (or rather its sequel), which I enjoyed.