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The Longest Journey | List Price: $39.95
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Platform: Windows 98, Windows 95
Brand: Funcom
Binding: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2000-11-17
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Features: - Over 150 locations spanning two distinct and detailed worlds
- More than 70 speaking characters
- Exciting mix of 2D and 3D graphics in high-resolution
- Supports both 16- and 32-bit colour depths in software and hardware
- Each scene featuring multiple 3D characters with up to 1,000 polygons each
Great Game [Posted on 2005-03-01]
I'm normally a strategy gamer but I heard so much about The Longest Journey, I decided to try it. I bought it used from Amazon, and have been playing it nonstop since I received it.
The story is excellent so far - it could stand on its own as a fantasy novel. The writing is great. Some people have criticized the game for the use of 4 letter words, but the dialog really reflects the way young people speak. Most people, if they're honest, will admit that they spoke that way when they were 20.
My only quibble with the game is that some of the solutions to the puzzles were too obscure. I believe that, without internet access, lots of players will not be able to finish the game. This would be a shame, as the story and dialog are so good, everyone who plays should be allowed to play through to the end, even if they can't solve the puzzles.
Yack Yack Yack [Posted on 2006-01-09]
This game is nice, good puzzles and problem solving skills. The problem....too much TALKING....alot of what some of the characters have to say is purely BORING. Keep the dialoge direct and to the point the game would have been much better. Not one of their better games.
Quick Tip: [Posted on 2006-02-15]
If you are considering buying this game but are apprehensive because of complaints of too much dialogue or walking time, there's an extremely easy way to fix it so the game goes much quicker:
-there is a SUBTITLES option in the options menu
-you can press ESCAPE to skip through animations or dialogue
With the subtitles on you can just read through the dialogues, then press escape when you're done- it makes things go waaaay quicker. Escape also allows you to skip walking around and other animations, so it takes barely any time to go long distances. That said, you have to be careful not to miss something because you're going too fast, and its worth it to listen to the dialogue every once in a while because its (for the most part) well written and generally well acted as well.
This is definitely one of the better games I've ever played, and worth the time just for the story. It was very easy to become attached to the characters- I soon found myself whistling for Crow even when he was not needed in the hopes of having a little chat. :-) The puzzles are generally fairly straightforward, with only a very few being obtuse to the point of annoyance. Some of them are actually a little contrived, but like I said- what really made the game was the personalities. Extremely enjoyable and highly recommended.
A masterpiece [Posted on 2006-06-03]
This game is simply one of the best PC games, and the best PC adventure game, ever made.
I first heard about this game after playing and enjoying Syberia I and II. They are similar point-and-click adventure puzzle-solving games, with a strong central character and intriguing storyline. However, I quickly discovered that, if the Syberia titles are thought of as appetizing hors d'oeuvres, then The Longest Journey is a full five-course meal with all the trimmings!
The main reason this game stands out compared with other adventure games is the extremely deep storyline and characters. There is lots of dialogue, so it is not for people with short attention spans. The voice-acting is absolutely superb. The actress who plays April Ryan, the central character, deserved an Oscar (if such things exist for PC game acting).
April is the lynchpin of the whole game, and if you are like me you will quickly fall in love with her. What makes her so appealing is her whacky sense of humour. April is always wise-cracking, and is guaranteed to make you crack up even when all she is doing is routine game-mechanic stuff like: you can't go through that door, you can't combine those objects, etc. The many other characters she meets in the course of her adventures are also well-acted and often extremely comical.
The fact that the game doesn't take itself too seriously helps the player come to terms with the hocus-pocus storyline and often highly improbable situations and puzzles. That said, the story, which takes many hours to complete, is also extremely deep, absorbing and often moving. April proves herself to be a genuine heroine, who triumphs against her own insecurity as well as the many bizarre challenges she faces in the course of her travels.
Without wanting to give too much away, it's an epic Wizard-of-Oz, Alice-in-Wonderland style fantasy adventure, where April goes to all sorts of weird and wonderful places and meets all sorts of weird and wonderful characters and creatures. Along the way she has to save the world, which involves getting out of one sticky situation after another.
You'll notice that so far I have heaped all this praise on the game without even touching on the actual gameplay! If you've played inventory-based, point-and-click adventures, then The Longest Journey's game mechanics are a pretty standard affair, but great fun for all that. In general I found that the puzzles were not-too-easy and not-too-difficult. They were nicely-challenging without becoming frustrating. True, there is one particularly notorious puzzle near the start, but you'll crack it with patience.
If you enjoy this game as much as I did you will feel emotionally drained at the end of it. I was sad when it was all over, and missed April and her friends. I hope that the recently released sequel, Dreamfall, will capture at least some of the magic of this wonderful game.
Great Game [Posted on 2008-03-25]
Excellent game. I loved the fact that you can't get killed, not matter what you do wrong. There is a LOT of needless profanity, but enjoyable adventure. It got a bit gabby at times but you have the option of skipping parts of those conversations. I also loved that it was not an adventure game that you could sit down and finish in one day. It is long, but if I'm going to fork out the bucks, it better be.
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