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Summary: Very Fun and Very Entertaining
Review: I vary much enjoyed this game. I loved the characters. I didn't want to journey to end. I found it very fun and would recommend it to anyone. I wish they had produced a sequel.
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Summary: I cried at the end of this game, because I wanted more.
Review: The Longest Journey, known as being pretty much the only game FunCom created prior to Anarchy Online, is an adventure game set over 300 years in the future. In it, you play April Ryan, a young artist haunted by strange dreams...dreams of another world, where magic is real. Those dreams, too, are real. Dreams of a real world, the counterpart to Earth. A world that April is destined to travel to as a Shifter, one of the few people capable of penetrating the veil between the worlds. A world created to preserve the Balance. The Balance between Stark and Arcadia, between magic and science...between order and chaos. And the game itself is every bit as cool as it sounds. First, the characters. April Ryan meets up with a very large number of people on her journey across the worlds, ranging from a talking bird to a foul-mouthed hacker with a very strange sense of humor. Each one almost feels real, though you can sometimes tell when characters have the same voice actor. It's an adventure game in the grand tradition of Monkey Island (complete with someone...well, something...named Guybrush!), but has few, if any, hunt-the-pixel puzzles. Most of the puzzles actually make sense, and the closest thing to a sliding tile puzzle involves an altar with stones and rotating rings. It's an annoying one, but doable. The storyline is truly epic, including thirteen chapters (fourteen if you count the dream sequence in the prologue) spread across the twin earths of Stark and Arcadia, a war between the Sentinel and the Vanguard, and four dragons (sorry, Draic Kin) who guard the Balance. The game has enough twists and turns to truly surprise you, including an amazing final chapter with an ending even I didn't expect. But no matter where you go, whether fighting mad alchemists or puzzling out the history of two peoples, you'll find yourself staying up until you only have two hours to get to class and/or work. Are there flaws? Of course...no game is perfect, much as we'd like to find one that is. The game is...well, wordy. They talk a lot, enough that it is more like a movie at times than a game. And if you Alt-Tab out, the models are rather screwed up until you reload. But I'm still giving this game five stars, because it's good enough to make me look past it. Ragnar Tornquist is a genius, plain and simple.
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Summary: Best Game Ever
Review: Ever since I was young, I've been playing adventure games (kings quest, police question, space quest, and monkey island.. blah blah). But since the fall of the entire adventure genre, I've turned my back on adventure games. However, I had the sudden urge to buy one all the sudden and I came across "The Longest Journey" Demo. I played it and I was like "WOW!!" Never had there been such a beautiful adventure game with all the fun and innocence of the "good ol' days" of adventure games. So the following day I went down to the store to buy it, and from the moment I installed it on the computer, I loved it. There are FOUR CDs. Very long, very detailed, a dynamic story line, and lots of video (like an old Wing Commander game). Though at times its true, the dialog can get a bit too long, but it is all worth it in the end...it makes sense...a lot of sense. The story line itself is like a good book. And when I finished playing this game, I felt a great sadness as I had finished the best game I've ever played in my life. Stayed up days playing it, 4 hours of sleep a day maybe at the most--it was that good. one word of advice if your not sure: TRY THE DEMO. YOU WON'T REGRET IT. TRY IT AND YOU WILL BUY IT.
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Summary: Shut up already!!!
Review: Nice graphics. Bit corny at times, but that doesnt matter. Great setting, plot and characters. Nice puzzles. However... the dialogue is endless! I read the laudatory reviews and thought... 'well this games a safe bet'. Now I have given up because I cant take it any more!!! At one stage I think I sat in front of the screen for 20 minutes just listening to a single conversation... and it was boring as hell. What was going through the game designers' minds???
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Summary: A great Adventure for the Mind
Review: When I first bought "The longest Journey" I couldnt get into the gameplay and didnt get around to playing it until a while later- Yes it is true there is a lot of diaglogue... but this Game is Rich with story, graphics, and puzzles that keeps you playing from one moment to the next- until you realize you've reached the end and you want more... Im very picky when it comes to games- most games these days just are lacking substance. This is a very rich and detailed game. I would love to find more like it. I found a game that appears similar (havent played it yet) called "Darkened Syke" It is very similar to this game so if you liked this its worth a try. Sometimes games are all graphics and no subtance- or the puzzles are impossible. "the longest journey" is a nice blend of both worlds.
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Summary: Adventure games at their finest
Review: The Longest Journey is, bar none, the best adventure game I have ever played, mainly because it has such an intriguing and well-written plot. Too often, adventure games have a loosely conceived plotline and poorly voiced characters to support a string of nonsensical puzzles. In this game, the puzzles are the least intriguing part. Don't get me wrong, the puzzles are interesting and challenging (often too challenging for a casual gamer...but that's what walk-throughs are for), but the beauty of this game is that it is a story. The story is LONG, as you may have guessed, but it is also fascinating. I often played long into the night because I simply couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next! The characters are well-developed -- you really feel like you know the central character by the end -- and the humor is very well done. I'll admit that I was a little irritated by Crow, the sidekick, but everything was was great. Of course, the fact that the game is fairly linear and won't let you totally screw up (you can't die, and you can't move past the point of getting a necessary item) helps with the frustration factor. I highly recommend the game -- for serious gamers who want to figure it all out themselves, but also for people who just want a good story.
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Summary: The Looooongest Journey
Review: I just wanted the talking to end. The dialogue is inane and endless and you have to talk to everyone and hear absolutely everything they have to say to progress in the game. I personally didn't like any of the characters and found April, the main character, particularly annoying and perhaps one of the most bland and corny characters ever created. The puzzles were mostly simple and action nonexistent, so all in all, bored as hell. The only plus would be graphically speaking. The worlds are rendered beautifully, but you have to go back and forth through them so much, even that wears on you.
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Summary: A Great Game
Review: Clearly this game is one of the best adventure games out there. I've been reading a lot of the reviews, and I must say...people who gave this a bad review based on talking alone mustn't have read the manuel. I thought it was a bit much at times, too. However, if one were so inclined to read the pamplet, one might learn that notes on a conversation are taken, so that one might skip dialog and just read the notes, which gives one the hints without having to listen. Also, many people who give this game a bad review are missing the point of the game alltogther. The game creates a new world reallistically. It has some cursing, but as far as I'm concerned it isn't uneeded, but adds to the reallism of the game. For a genre that is surely in loll, this game gives justice to the point-and-click adventure game.
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Summary: For the mature intellengent gamer
Review: This is PC gaming at its very finest. It is has rich and lush environments that you are quickly absorbed in. But what makes this game so much better than just about all others is the astonishing dialogue. The dialogue is so well written and so well acted some times you forget you playing a game and not watching a movie. The characters are very believable and are not at all trite. After completing this game you think back on it as scenes in a movie rather than the ordinary level in an ordinary game. The scene in the mushroom cave is especially memorable and touching. (It not only can be looked at as hope for April to continue her quest, but for all people to find a basic meaning in their life.) I cannot recommend this game/experience more highly or happily.
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Summary: A Long, Linear Journey
Review: I've been playing adventure/RPG type games since back with the orignal King's Quest. Prompted by the glorious reviews of gamers and magazines alike, I decided to pick up a copy. I was impressed with the game, but there were some bovious flaws. The storyline moves slowly, which I didn't mind at all, but many of today's gamers will find this game meticulous to the point of boredom. Because the developers have you spend so much time learning about your quest (in fact, your still learning information up until the end), you are able to fully understand the depth of each character. The graphics are fantastic, overall that is. The backgrounds, and the architecture of buildings is marvelous. The player models however, could use some definite work. From time to time, your character (April) will try to sit or lie down, and the motions are jerky, will the model dipping into the ground or other objects. The scinema sequences however, are quite possibly the best I have ever seen. With this game being targeted at adults ( for strong language etc.), I would have expected much more difficult puzzles. Many "puzlles" simply mean paying attention when someone talks to you. And the few true puzzles you find, are mind-numbingly simple for anyone who has experience playing adventure games. The actual game went along in an extremely linear fashion. While talking to AI character;s you do get a "choice" of what you say, but that choice amounts to nothing more than a preference as to the order of the questions. You are basically required (at one point or another) to ask every character, every question you can. I appluad the effort and the graphics. The story was captivating and well-thought out. The gameplay was slightly too linear for my liking, and the puzzles just too simplistic. Often, it felt as though I was being led around by hand to whever I need to go. Also, the inability to die (April simply won't follow your command if it would kill you, or potentially stop you from beating the game) seemed unnecassry to me. While, I have had the experience of getting the the final battle in a game before and not being equipped correctly, I feel that the ability to choose your path, and learn from your mistakes makes the game much more enriching. Despite the few character model flaws, and the small gameplay issues I have, I still enjoyed this game. It is the best adventure game in a LOOONG time, and I would recommend it to everyone from a first time gamer, to a very experienced puzzle master.
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