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Summary: The Best Journey of its Kind
Review: In the style of Beyond Atlantis and Amerzone, the Longest Journey is one of the best graphic adventure I have played for a while. Not only graphics are very nice, but there is something about the personalities of the characters that live long after you finished playing the game. You are this very modern girl who lives in between worlds, the world of science and the world of dreams. In order to keep the balance right between those two worlds, you meet those great cute creatures telling you their history and legends, and of course you are always very central to it all. I am very happy to be able to share my opinion of this game, as this sort of quality and user friendly interface does not come often. (Stress free, you can never die! But you will enjoy it for days, as it is a long journey...)
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Summary: Defective Product
Review: I ordered this game and was anticipating it's arrival. However when I attempted to install it I kept getting "error" messages saying that "XXXX\xxx\00\00\xarc data could not be moved" and other similar messages. Thinking my CD-R could be dirty I cleaned it thoroughly but kept getting the same message. Attempts to install in another similar system gave the same messages. The replacement arrived and, again, I kept getting error messages stating data could not be moved. I am now in the process of getting a third copy. We'll see how it works. In both instances I wrote to FunCom's tech support and have never received any reply as of 10/9/01. I would be hesitant to order this game until the mfr. corrects the defective product.
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Summary: I don't see how people rated this 1 star...
Review: I will cut to the chase here, I LOVED this game. The graphics were beautiful, and there were mini moives in the game! The aimation was smooth and although the dialoge was a little long, the voices were beautiful, and you could fast foward through the dialoge. If you did do that, however, you can read it in the conversations folder, as well as re-watch the movies, and read April's dairy. I looooved this game. It is a very beautiful adventure game, meaning puzzles not blowing things up. Another good thing is you cannot die. That my friend, is a very good feature. My only gripe was the epilouge, which I didn't think was conclusive enough. However, it was not bad enough for me to take points off from this beautifully engaging computer game. There is also strong langauge in the game, so be warned. I highly recommend this.
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Summary: I Wish the Longest Journey Would Last Longer
Review: The Longest Journey isn't a typical adventure game. Along with the expected puzzles and riddles comes a fantastic story that bounces between sci-fi and fantasy and would engage almost anybody. My boyfriend, who is a computer-game addict, bought this game for both of us to play together...a new experience considering that I am not big on gaming. Amazingly, we both fell in love with the characters and places depicted in this game. Since we represent both ends of the computer-game spectrum, I would recommend this game to anybody!
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Summary: I was hooked
Review: I was hooked in the first half hour. I like a good story but this was more like an interactive movie that you do at your own pace.I like the fact that I don't get killed and the profanity was mild compared to what I hear today out of kids(or adults on that matter).Even my kids were enchanted by april and the other characters.I didn't play myst or riven until after I played TLJ and I still like TLJ the best. I'm hoping for a sequel.
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Summary: really fun
Review: this game had lots of puzzles; some were pretty tough, especially since you're bouncing between worlds. but overall, a really good adventure game. one thing about this game that is so awesome is that you cannot die. you can try all sorts of things and you can't be killed; which is nice because you'll never be put back to the beginning of the game or scene.
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Summary: The 100 Years War was also long . . . and about as fun
Review: Is it a game? No, not really. That would imply some meaningful interaction from you, the player. But instead, you are principally called upon to hit the return key, as you select line after line of inane dialogue. (Don't worry about choosing the question to ask or the comment to make . . . you have to choose all of them. Then you have to listen to all of them.) The structure is painfully linear, sometimes senselessly so.Is it good interactive fiction? No. The characters are unappealing, and all of them go off into pages of needless exposition. ("How did I come here, you ask? Let me tell you from the beginning . . ." "ARRGH!!!" we scream, stuffing our hair in our ears.) Sometimes the dialogue is even offensive, presenting a sophomoric idea of relationships between men and women that we had hoped gaming had left behind, and giving us keen (but unwanted) insights into the social lives of the game designers. The one star is for truly awesome graphics. By the end of the game -- and the journey WAS long, as we were painfully aware -- we felt a maternal pity for the graphics team. We hope that they will soon find gainful employment with a game company -- that is, a company that knows how to design a game.
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Summary: Longest Indeed
Review: The short take: save your money--the journey may be The Longest but it's certainly not a very compelling one. I'm an occasional gamer, not a hard-core devotee, but I will from time to time play an adventure game if I have reason to expect--via recommendations, reviews, word-of-mouth--that the storyteller's art will draw me into a strong narrative current. My points of comparison are those games I've loved, primarily the Gabriel Knight series, Myst, and Riven. If you enjoyed these, I cannot imagine that you'll be very satisfied with TLJ. (My circumstances of purchase: new computer, lots of bells and whistles, looking for something entertaining to exploit new power, taken in by the hype, here on Amazon and elsewhere--"masterpiece!" "one of the best!" "reawakening the genre!" etc. Feh!) I give TLJ two stars for its technical merits, its depth, and its generally interesting voice-acting. That said, I disqualify TLJ--okay, the bar is high here--for failing to weave a sufficiently hypnotic spell. My standard setters, the Sierra and MYST games, waste little time in hooking the player. For me, though, TLJ never connected. Yeah, I finished it, but simply to "see what comes next" and to "use up" what I had purchased, admittedly hoping all the while that, at some point, I'd finally be "captured" by the story and the predicaments of its characters. Never happened. (And of course, because I--as April Ryan--couldn't die [no game-buster here: it's disclosed in the documentation], I could not but succeed in saving The Universe, could I?) Like other reviewers, I also fault TLJ for its long stretches of tedious, meaningless, stupefying dialogue, numbing lectures, and reeling disquisitions that induce ennui, inflict meaningless detail, and transform player into masochist, plodding, plodding, plodding on, despite and still. (Why not a few flashback or other narrative conventions that move the story while retaining visual interest?) One unhappy result of the infoglut is a lot of lost threads at the end of the day. But I for one certainly didn't mind: I was simply happy to have completed the ordeal. Moreover, TLJ's puzzles alternated between the utterly jejune and the absolutely stupid--the most absurd impossibilities imaginable, some "solutions" being so illogical as to defy natural law. And even the highly vaunted graphics sometimes seemed so ineptly edited into the narrative structure that, rather than weaving a spell, they jarred me out of the game, disrupting the "waking dream" so essential to narrative fiction. Greater use of dissolves, wipes, or other transitions would in my view have been preferable to the illogical jump-cuts that characterized transitions from cinema sequences to the game itself. Yes, it was pretty. Yes, it was rich. But all in the service of an excruciating Bataan-like march to an inevitable conclusion. Skip it.
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Summary: Awesome Game
Review: The Longest Journey is an awesome game. The graphics are amazing and extremely detailed. The only downfall of this game is that the game definetly not intended for anyone under 16 because of the graphic laungauge and is difficult and you may need walkthroughs. This game is definetly a must buy.
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Summary: If only there were more just like it
Review: My husband and I love to play adventure games together. This one had us hooked. We spent the beginning a little confused but as the plot unfolds itself it becomes the most intriging games I have ever played! The plot is very original and the way it is presented is unique as well. The controls are simple to understand and use. The puzzles are challenging without being obscure or unnecessarily difficult. The characters are likable and you want to know what happens next. Funcom did a wonderful job of proving just how wonderful adventure games can be without any combat. I hope there is another one very soon.
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