He intends to construct the biggest stage possible for Helena Romanski, a washed-up opera singer with whom he is obsessed. The place is run by the eccentric and somewhat crazy Serguei Borodine, who steals Oscar's hands to make his automaton organist work. The next stop is Komkolzgrad, a dusty Communist-era industrial mining complex with two giant metallic worker-automata overlooking the tracks. Before she can leave Barrockstadt entirely, she must pass the large wall that keeps her train from exiting. Along the way, she gets a lesson on the legend of Syberia and the customs of the mysterious prehistoric Youkol people who lived with mammoths and were able to domesticate them. They insist on being paid $100 for their assistance, so Kate has to fix the university's broken bandstand to get the university's stubborn board of directors to help. The train stops short of the winding mechanism so Kate must barter with a nearby couple with a barge. She is forced to dive into Hans' past to retrieve two items of value to him: the mammoth doll and a clockwork music box.Īs she follows Hans' path, Kate makes her way to Barrockstadt, a failing university whose train station acts as a botanical garden. It is manned by Oscar, an animatronic man fond of protocol whom Kate must satisfy to depart. In order to find Hans, Kate must take his train: a clockwork locomotive built by his sister at his request. It stunted his development, leaving him mentally handicapped, and Hans' sole goal became to find mammoths to ride as the doll depicts. Kate's research reveals that Hans was injured in his attempt to retrieve a prehistoric doll of a man riding a mammoth. Kate has no choice: If she wants the takeover to succeed, she will have to find Hans. Now that his sister is dead, Hans Voralberg becomes the new owner of the factory, which cannot be sold without his approval.

When Kate visits the village notary to finalize the deal, the notary tells her that just before Anna's death, the old lady revealed that her brother is not dead and buried, but alive somewhere in the North-East. The game starts with Kate arriving in the fictional French village of Valadilène and witnessing the funeral of Anna Voralberg, the owner of a family-owned spring-automaton toy factory. The titular Syberia is a mythical island on which mammoths are said to live. Her mission takes her across Central and Eastern Europe, which gradually leads her to question her own life. Once at the village, Kate learns that the woman who owned the factory has just died, and she has a brother who must be contacted in order for the takeover to proceed. In the game, the player controls the actions of American lawyer Kate Walker, who is sent to a remote French village in order to finalize the take-over of a toy factory.

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