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Summary: Like Listening to my mom talk
Review: More than half of the time that I played this game was incredibly usless conversation. Instead of answering yes or no to a simple question people have to tell you their boring, and completely irelavent life story. This game could have been rated "E" but someone had to add about 5 million swears, which if I may add simply added to the long, boring conversation. To find anything useful in this game you have to go completely and utterly off track of the game. Some things were too hard too find eg. They expected you to throw bread on a rubber duckey so a seagull would pop it, find a clothes line, find your ring, get this stupid pointless machine to work, take something form the machine, blow up the rubber duckey once you find it after it pops, take off a band-aid on the rubber duckey, combine the duckey, with the pliars and clothes line, and lower it to get a key in some subway tracks that you use for two seconds later on. I'd give the backrounds a 7, the cinemas a 7, and the people in the game a 3. Overall an, atmost, okay buy.
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Summary: Please may them stop talking!
Review: If you have ever had the experience of forcing yourself through a book that you weren't particularly enjoying, but felt compelled to finish, you know how I feel at this moment having just completed the Longest Game - err Journey. Well it was not really the longest game - about 40 hours total - it just seemed that way.If you have played any of the classic adventure games, Kings Quest, Monkey Island etc. . ., you know the drill. Slowly move your cursor over every scene looking for the stuff you can click on. Talk to everyone you meet as long as there is new dialogue to hear. Run back and forth through the same screens over and over again so you can use object 'a' on person 'b' to get object 'c'. Try combining every item in your inventory with every other item no matter how silly it seems in the hope of producing a new object that you can use on person 'd' to get object 'e'. This is the same dull, I mean fun stuff to be expected from any adventure game and this one rarely breaks with tradition. One nice difference it adds is that you can never die and even better yet, you can never get into a situation in which there is no way to progress from your current save game and are forced to restore to earlier saves looking for the point where you took the wrong path. You may get stumped by a couple of the very illogical puzzles, but you can rest assured that all of the pieces to the solution are available. This very linear game will never let you into another area of the game unless you have everything you need or still have access to the areas you need to gather them. Big plus. However the game manages to create a brand new flaw that will no doubt serve as a warning to future game designers. It has endless dialogue. Eyes glaze over endless dialogue. Shout at the characters to just shut up already endless dialogue. And you will need to listen to all of it (or hit escape repeatedly to fast forward through it) to solve the game, because repeatedly you will be required to elicit a certain line from a character, before you can access another part of the game or get needed information from another character. This single flaw, destroyed most of my enjoyment of the game and drives it down to the level of just ok. Bottom line. If you love adventure games you will probably be willing to overlook the endless talk and appreciate the game's many virtues, nice graphics, wonderful voice acting, strong storyline, varied locals and well defined characters. If you don't like adventure games, don't be fooled by all of the rave reviews. Its charms are unlikely to appeal to those who don't like the genre.
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Summary: Great Screenplay, not a game, tedium from too much talking
Review: This is not a game. It is a soap opera with dialogue taking up all of the game playing time. Granted, it is very well done, but I am at chapter 6 wondering if I have the patience to continue on through with the overly repetitive nature of the "talking THREADS" required in order to proceed to the next 'scene'. This is really a movie, with the pretense of being an interactive game. Granted, it is a well-done computer mouse click movie, but why pretend it is a game? To be fair, I am male, so nonstop chatting about everything I see is not something that entertains me. I guess this is a 'chick flick' sort of ?game?. If you love to hear people blather on and on and on and on and on and on and on ad nauseum with nothing happening in between, this is for you. If you insist on playing, do yourself a favor and turn on subtitles. That way you can speed read and right mouse click past the flood of mindless chatter. I feel like giving this one star due to the absolutely ridiculous amount of dialogue one must plod through (fully 99% of the 'pretend game' play) but I will be generous and give it 1 extra star for at least being creative. But I still insist this is NOT really a game, but a movie. I give this the "Black Dahlia" award, given to the game that wastes so much time on plot and chat threads that one gets eventually frustrated and quits playing because there is really nothing for the "player" to do other than listen to dialogue. What a shame we must even spend the energy to "click" to hear the next sentence.
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Summary: Great Screenplay, not a game, tedium from too much talking
Review: This is not a game. It is a soap opera with dialogue taking up all of the game play time. Granted, it is very well done, but I am at chapter 6 wondering if I have the patience to continue with the overly repetitve nature of the "talking THREADS" needed to proceed to the next 'scene'. This is really a movie, with the pretense of being an interactive game. Granted, it is a well done computer mouse click movie, but why pretend it is a game? To be fair, I am male, so nonstop chatting about everyting I see is not something that entertains me. I guess this is a 'chick flick' sort of ?game?. If you love to hear people blather on and on and on and on and on and on and on ad nauseum with nothing happening in between, this is for you. I feel like giving this one star due to the absolutely ridiculous amount of dialogue one must plod through (fully 99% of the 'pretend game' play) but I will be generous and give it 1 extra star for at least being creative. But I still insist this is NOT really a game, but a movie.
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Summary: more please
Review: i loved this game, one of the best adventure games i have played, the puzzles are sometimes a bit hard, and i have to admit, i used a walkthrough for some of it, but the graphics and the character in general are very good. a good length game to took me several hrs to complete, the ending was a bit of a let down for me but over all very very good worth buying, and will look out for a sequel.
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Summary: thoughtful & fun!~~!!
Review: simply put, a great game, both thoughtful and fun. if you
are looking for an adventure minus blood & guts that will challenge
and surprise, this is it. can't recommend it highly enough.
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Summary: What a great game!
Review: I played this game every chance I had since I opened the box. I actually didn't want the game to end. The dialogue between April and the other characters could, at times be extremely long. However, as the game unfolded I looked foreward to every interaction with April's...uh...friends. The puzzles were challenging indeed, but just another facet of the game, not the focus. All in all, extremely engaging and entertaining. Graphics excellent, interface easy to work with, gameplay and theme original. Mild adult language. Not suited for children. Highly recommendable for adult and older teens. Unique and refreshing adventure!
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Summary: Just buy it
Review: I cant begin to tell you how great this game is, just buy it you wont be dissapointed... not only is it good to start seeing the F word used in games it proves that games a growing up with the people who play them...
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Summary: haven't finished the game yet but...
Review: it has kept me entertained so far. I like this genre of games but there is a little too much dialogue for me. Some sections are very long and wordy and you just have to sit and listen. The graphics are good so far. The only other issue is that it was extremely difficult to finally get downloaded correctly on my machine. I e-mailed the company for help suggestions several times with no response so that was very annoying. Finally got it up and running on another machine. That's my reason for only 3 stars... if the installation would have been more hassle free I would have given it 4.
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Summary: One Awesome Game
Review: After the change in game programmers at Lucas Arts thought that I would never see another great adventure game. Boy, was I wrong. TLJ is one of the best games I have ever played! The graphics are beautiful, the music is captivating, and the puzzles are challenging. When I first purchased this game I played it for several hours a day, every day, often staying up until sunrise. In TLJ you play April, an 18 year old art student who is trying to figure out who she is and what her world is. It is truly a metaphor for any person coming of age or figuring out who they are at any stage in their life! The point and click interface makes it much easier to get around the game than fishing for keystrokes. The story itself is riveting and unfolds in unpredictable ways. The characters are witty and well rounded. The more you talk to them, the more you find out about them and they have very interesting personalities. Choices that you make affect how the game plays through but not the ultimate outcome. I have recommended this game to everyone I know and they have all loved it. Be aware of the fact that you do need about 2 GB of free space on your hard drive to fully install the game but then you won't need the CD again for regular game play. By this game now and prepare for the fun!
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