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Summary: This game is like a long boring movie!
Review: I love adventure games and have been playing them for years. I am definately not a fan of the war/fighting games so when I saw the great reviews for this game I rushed out and bought it. What a mistake! I just don't understand the fascination with this game...it is so boring! The dialogue between the characters drags on and on and on.....which would be o.k. if it wasn't such useless small talk. I would even be o.k. with listening to a bunch of small talk if it was funny....but it isn't! Some of the conversations are actually 15-20 minutes long. I eventually gave up and started pressing the escape key when the characters started rambling about nonsense. If you plan on playing this game for only 20-30 minute increments then you will probably be able to tolerate all the lengthy conversations. If you are use to well developed adventure games then I suggest you find a different game.
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Summary: Im growing weary....
Review: This game kills me. The dialog is excrutiating. I often play the game by reading a book or magazine while the characters are talking, stopping only to get them going again, and then just read the conversation log. I also have found the puzzles to be either really easy (here is the code... enter the code...with no "figuring out") or totally illogical. Like you know the robot is thirsty, why cant you give him the soda? Oh, you have to run to a different place to put it in the paint shaking machine. Why cant April just shake it? I keep playing to see what is going to happen, but I am on chapter 4, and I dont know if I cant stand it much longer. I wonder why an "adult game" with profanity and other adult content has such slow action and easy logic puzzles. Who is this game aimed at?
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Summary: The Slowest Journey!
Review: But well worth the time!! Yes, this game took its time getting started! April's nightmares only hinted at what was about to happen!! Meeting strange people like Cortez, who not only looks strange but says strange and fantastic things, was only the beginning of what was to befall April. She was grabbed from her bedroom apartment and set on a fantastic and wonderful Journey (thus the title) to imagined places-one was even underwater and the final place took place out in space! WOW!! And all the characters you get to meet-animals as well as people were so interesting and fun to read about. It's a great read as well as to play. The solutions to some of the puzzles were not easy to figure out-I had to gaze at my hints sheet several times before I got it! (Sometimes you as April would have to go to a certain place or talk to a certain person or have a certain object before the solution could even be attempted!!) This action took the most time and was even frustrating toward the end when the puzzles got more complicated and even seemed to suddenly 'bunch together'! But in the end, I came away feeling good and happy and wanting more!! I very much hope there is a sequel in the works-I'm hooked!! A must see, a must play, a must buy game! Sincerely, Jay.
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Summary: Could not take my eyes away
Review: I spent all day playing this game. I could not take my eyes off. Wonderful graphics and great plot. I could not wait to use logic to get to the next part of the story. I recommend this to any one who enjoys adventuure games. It was so good I was sad when it all ended.
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Summary: Long, but beautifully presented!
Review: I found this game to be absolutely fascinating! I found some of the dialog to be a bit time consuming, but then time was what I had. It takes patience to get through all of the chapters. And going into each level was generally a surprise! Figuring out the puzzles take some brain power, but if a puzzle isn't solvable at the time you encounter it, you haven't had April, the heroine, do everything yet. It was a real pleasure to play a game that is a "girl" adventure story that did not have the heroine kileed everytime something went wrong! 3D effects are wonderful!
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Summary: Fun, but very very disappointing
Review: I'm probably one of the few people in the world who actually plays games like this for the STORY. The game itself was great. Very well put together, decent interface once I got used to it, challenging but not TOO hard. Good graphics, good character interactions, etc. However, the plot of the story had huge holes in it (what about..???) and the ending was so much like, 'oops, we ran out of money, better just end it now' that I was disgusted. Might be setting us up for a sequel, but it was just so anti-climactic and disappointing that I wouldn't even buy a sequel.
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Summary: The top adventure game of the decade!
Review: Having finished this game, the only words I have to describe this fantastic experience is WOW! The gamepaly is fantastic, but beyond the gameplay, what kept me completely engrossed in this game is the fantastic storyline which just completely holds you in the overall experience. Highly recommended!!
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Summary: slick but tedious
Review: Having limited experience with current adventure games, my viewpoint may not be that of the average gamer. I found TLJ at first to be beautifully rendered and initially engaging. It didn't take long, though, to become disillusioned with the game. The pace is agonizingly slow. One spends long minutes just watching April trot around the sets. Many of the puzzles are really ludicrous - I wonder, for example, if anyone could ever figure out how to get the Key without several hints. And the dialogues should be shortened considerably. My patience has run out and I am shelving the game for now.
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Summary: Fun for adventure fans...
Review: Excerpted from my StrangeHorizons review: Imagine: one day you wake up, only to find yourself apparently still dreaming. Instead of lying in your nice cozy bed, you're in the middle of a vast landscape of cliffs and canyons, with a strangely colorful sky. And there's a four foot egg dangling precariously over a cliff, held by the root of a cranky talking tree. You'd think you'd gone nuts, right? That's exactly what April Ryan thinks when she gets dropped into that situation. And that is why The Longest Journey is a good game.... What makes the game stand out is the believability of the young heroine. Though as a teenager in Stark, April has futuristic technology at her disposal, she still has to deal with many of the same problems students have today -- all-nighters before a deadline; sleazy upper-class boys; managing to cover rent, food, and fun, on a shoestring budget; and so on. ... She does not have any experience that would prepare her to deal with being dropped unceremoniously -- in her nightclothes, no less -- into a magical quest. She reacts with a mix of skepticism at the absurdity of the notion, anger at having been yanked out of her more-or-less happy existence, and terror at the possible threat to her life.... The game's strongest suit is probably the background scenery -- the art is stunning, especially in Arcadia, where sweeping vistas and fantastic cities spring to life on the screen. ... If you are accustomed to games that provide action and mayhem, you will probably be frustrated by the slower pace, and by the puzzles, which are occasionally whimsical, and often intricate. But, if you enjoy a good story, dislike excessive violence, and like puzzles that demand careful thinking and patience -- and especially if you're a student, dealing with the same problems April faces back in the "real world" -- then The Longest Journey may be just the thing to give you hours of entertainment, mystery, and maybe just a little bit of inspiration.
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Summary: loved it!!
Review: I absoultely loved this game! Not since Gaberial Knight 3 have an enjoyed playing a game so much. If you like adventure games I highly recommend this game. This game starts out introudcing us to April Ryan a seemingly ordanariy girl, until she begins her path towards her destiny. She is called a shifter, she has the power to walk between worlds. There is the world she lives in Stark (earth) and Arcaida. Arcaida is a place of magic and mytholiogy. April belives herself to be a normal person with work, freinds and school so having learned of Arcaida she begins to wonder about her sanity. But the fate of 2 worlds is a stake so she begins her quest. I really like the way the puzzles pretty much came together and you knew what you where looking for, her diary which she writes in throughout her adventure is a help as well. The characters are all interesting and the entire story is really a breath of fresh air. My only disappointment was once I had finished the game. Not that it was too short after all it is "The Longest Journey", but this game made me greedy I want more. I sincerely hope there is a second at some point in the future.
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