Syberia

Komkolzgrad  

Wow. Talk about polar opposites, eh? Going from the beautiful picturesque Barrockstadt to the dingy, creepy as hell Komkolzgrad.  Get off the train and head down towards the giant robot thingy. Climb up the ladder and inside on a shelf youll find three of Hanss things. Theres the Komkolzgrad Voice Cylinder, a design of the giant statue and a handle. Look at the design to see where the winding mechanism is.

The handle is immediately useful. Place it in the mechanism on the side of the bed. Push the handle up twice and press the red button to wind the train up. With the train wound, head back and talk to Oscar. Before you can though youll see a short crippled-looking man run away after apparently coming from the train. Kate yells out at him, but he deliberately doesnt hear anything she says.  You should get a call when going up to the train. When youre done talking, head into the train.

Inside the passenger area, youll find Oscar. It appears youve come at a bad time since hes… all tied up.

Dead silence.

Okay, so Ill never make it as a comedian. Shoot me. Before you untie Oscar pick up the shears sitting next to him. Why? Just because he needs to be taunted.

After laughing at him a bit, untie Oscar and listen to his explanation. No, the guy you saw running away took them? Didnt see THAT one coming.. 😛

You might as well listen to the new voice cylinder you got while youre here.  After listening to it, go back to the giant statue. Enter it and press the lever forward once. Exit the robot and after Kate hops to the other side use the shears on the extremely flimsy wall to cut open a door for yourself.

Inside the room, pick up the spark plug sitting on the shelf. With the spark plug in hand, leave this place and set the statues so you can go back down.

When youre back down, head all the way to the opposite side of Komkolzgrad. When youre there, press the button to call the elevator. Take the elevator down into a mine. When youre here, youll get a staticy call from Dan. I always wondered how well cell phones would work in a mine shaft…

See that small machine to the left? Thats actually a generator. Put the spark plug in it and push the small lever to get the juice flowin. With the lights on, Kate wont be afraid of getting lost. Go all the way down to the other end where youll find another elevator. Take this elevator up.

Now youre actually inside the building. There is a switch to the left of the large door that will open it for access to the outside area. Go ahead and push that now.

After youve pressed the button, head to the right and go up the steps. Inspect the automaton pianist at the organ. To the left of him will be a screwdriver. Go ahead and pick that up.

With the screwdriver in your inventory, exit the organ and go to the other side of the room. You should see a plate screwed onto a ladder. Inspect it and take out each screw with the screwdriver. When the plate falls off, climb up the ladder and enter the room to the left.

Here youll find the great hand bandit. Turns out his name is Serguei Borodine and he needs the hands for his automaton pianist. This pianist is going to play the gigantic organ that hes created to accompany the great opera singer Helena Romanski. Problem is, he doesnt know where she is and hes never really been able to make contact with her since she came to Komkolzgrad many years ago.

After hes brought the room down to the ground, go inside and inspect it. Take the scrapbook and the returned letters out of the drawer at the end of the room.  After taking them, call up your Mother.(Thanks to Ken K. for pointing out I missed this!

With them, go back and talk to Serguei about Mission.

You should now be able to take the monorail outside of Sergueis control room Go ahead and ride it to the space station area. Go forward and keep on trekkin’ until you come across a capsule. Enter it to find a washed up cosmonaut with a taste for vodka. He seems a little wasted right now so you probably wont be able to get very good information out of him, but some of the stuff he says is kinda funny. Behind him is a bottle of vodka you need to pick up.

After a while hell leave. Inside his medicine cabinet youll find a key and some papers on the cancellation of the space program.

With those things, go back outside. By the cosmonaut is a wheel that needs a good turning. After that, inspect the control panel. Put the key in the keyhole and Youre going to need to move the cosmonaut. Move the left arrow, then the up arrow. Now, to drench him, push the middle lever. Ask him about the airship to get the airship key(you might have to actually look at the airship/try to go in it to get the option to ask him about it). When youre done, head past him into a very creepy looking abandoned space project grounds.

Go to the left and enter the control room. Zoom in on the control panel and you should see a key, another Voralberg key. Use it in the keyhole and push the lever.  You then need to open the small compartment on the bottom right and connect the two wires. Take the blood testing apparatus out of the socket as well.

Run back down and tell the cosmonaut you need some of his blood. Hell gladly give it to you. Head back to the control room and insert the blood testing apparatus. Press the first two buttons to learn that the alcohol level of his blood is much too high. So, throwing any chances of getting a blood transmitted disease to the wind, Kate sticks her finger into the machine.  Since we all know Kate is clean and sober(except for that one cocaine binge in the late 80s, but thats a whole nother story) the blood test proves positive.

Press the second button again and the others. Now the cosmonaut will finally be able to fly away. If that spaceship works just as well as the train, I think we can all expect what someone will find a few hundred miles away in a small crater. You mean there arent any winding machines in DEEP SPACE?!  Sheesh.

After this, head back down and pick up the handle on the ground. Head back and you should find a cage-like thing with a bird sitting in it. Put the crank handle inside the blow horn. This will trigger a nice cutscene. After it, head back to the airship. Go inside and pull the handle. Toodles.

Aralbad      

After Kate has made her grandois entrance, head to the inn(dont worry its easy to find). Talk to the inn keeper who has a problem tearing himself away from his game. He gives some shitty service, so I guess well have to do something drastic. Theres a cleaning closet in the room. Open the door and pick up the detergent. Head back outside and use the detergent in the fountain to make a fluffy wonderland. Go back inside and open the curtain.  Now ring the bell to get the asshats attention again and hell notice the suds outside. Hell rush out and start to mop them up, so take full advantage of his absence.

Head behind his desk and take the brochure. Press the button and head through the barred door. Take a left to enter the dining room. Walk down the dining room until you reach a door. Hmm.. I can tell you the code to go through here right now or you can go in search of the card with the code on it.  If you dont feel like getting the card, the code is 0968.

If you want to get the card, go down and to the left a few times until you come in what looks like a mail-room. The card will be on the floor.

After entering the code, enter the room. Put on the gas mask and go outside.  Run down the pier to the gazebo where youll meet up Helena. The inn keep will rush out and try to kick you out but Helena wants to keep you around for a bit longer, as she hasnt had any excitement in about 20 years.

Right outside the gazebo is a small post with Jamess bell hanging on it.

Take it. Run back down the dock and place the bell on the post down here.  Ring it and go back inside to the dining room. Youll meet up with James, Oscars…. brother? I guess so! Hell run out to get Helena.

When they come back in, interrogate that bitch. Especially about Hans.  I guess her voice has become pretty decrepit now… Look at the number on the brochure and call it up. Youll get the recipe for a Blue Helena, yay!

Check out the cabinet under the bar. Youll find some crystallized honey and the lemon. Of course, you cant exactly use crystallized honey in a drink, so head outside of the dining hall the opposite way you came in and go down to where you see two guys playing chess in a pool. Take a left and youll see a hot tub. Turn the wheel and place the honey in the tub to create liquid honey.

Youll also need a crystal dish(trust me). Take a left outside the dining room and go in the hallway. At the end of the hall will be a serving cart with one on it, so just go ahead and steal it, just like with everything else…

Go back to the dining room. Place the crystal dish on the end of the bar.  Now youll need to make the actual drink. Put the honey vodka and lemon in the upper slots that they fit in. First, press the far-left lever to actually turn the thing on. Then, press the second piano key. Pull the little lever on the right and press the third piano key. Now, add ice, lemon, and honey by pressing the buttons with the honeycomb, lemon, and ice respectively. With all of it in, press the button on the far right.  If she says its no good, then either talk to her again or put the crystal dish on the side of the bar if you forgot and talk to her again. When she sings this time, it should break the dish, reminding her that her voice is still good as gold. Go back to the airship to leave.

Return to Komkolzgrad

Can you imagine what that Serguei wants to do with poor old Helena? Yick!

Now I need a shower.

As soon as youve gotten over that, use the sheers on the lock. After Helena has taken her sweet ass time getting out (couldnt she speed it up? Her life is kind of on the line!) use the screwdriver to get Oscars hands back(you know.. I just thought of something. Kates had the screwdriver this whole time. Couldnt she of taken them out when she first got here?

After the next scene, take the elevator down to the mine shaft. Head all the way down to the opposite site and press the button on the elevator to make it come down. Yikes! Good thing it wasnt that powerful. Now that the grate over the ventilation duct is off, crawl through it.

In the box to the left is another bomb. Pick this one up. Head down to the large robot/statue(are you sick of me not being able to make up my mind on what it is yet? :P) and put the bomb on its leg. Leave. NOW.

Return to Aralbad 

Exit the train to the right. Use the winding machine just like you used the others to get everything back in working order. Talk it up with Oscar for a bit. The thing you need to talk to him about, though, is your mission.

The inn manager should come out saying that a package has been dropped off for you inside. Go inside and check out the small box on the left of the counter. Pick up the mammoth automaton sitting inside.

Go to the dining room. Chat a bit with Helena. Go outside when youre done and talk to… well, you should know by now. When youre done talking to him, Kate will finally make one last decision.

Q and A

This is a small questions and answers section for the game. If you have a question youd like to see added here, send me an e-mail.

Q: I cant.. move.. to the left.. outside the Valadilene Inn! HELP!!

A: This is a tiny problem on the Xbox version(Im not sure about the PS2 one). Right outside of the Valadilene Inn it seems like you cant move down the street to the left, but you can. Just move Kate up a bit and you should go to the left.

Q: Can I play the game in the same point and click way like on the PC?

A: No, sorry. I wanted this too, but it isnt available. 🙁

Q: Will Syberia II be available for Xbox?

A: Right now, no one knows. Hopefully, it will.

Q: Can this game be played in 1080i?

A: Yes, it can. Even though it doesnt mention it on the back of the box, you can.

Q: Some of the cutscenes look messed up in 1080i…

A: You have to turn off the Widescreen so its back to 4:3 at the Xbox dashboard. The game will still be displayed in 1080i too. (Thanks to Ryan Elmore at [email protected] for the answer!)

Q: Theres a black border around my screen at all times! WTF?!

A: Thats just the way it is for everyone. 🙂

Q: I forgot to get the Hans-Anna mechanical toy and now Im stuck in the room where it goes! Help!

A: You SHOULD be able to make Kate get out of there by trying to run through either direction. It might take a few tries, but it works.