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Summary: Best Game of its type ever!
Review: Simply the best game of its type ever! Lots of interesting puzzles, character interaction, and plot twists and turns. The story line is simply fascinating, and April Ryan becomes a very real person to you during the course of play. The ending is such a refreshing change from the usual game meeting with some almost impossible to defeat foe who must be vanquished in some tedious battle. The game proves that it is possible to introduce real personality in a computer game. The only complaint is the game is difficult to install, but it's well worth the effort.
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Summary: Waiting anxiously for more like it.
Review: The game took me right into it. Like I WAS there. It's been over a week since I finished, sad to say, and I'm in grief. The game earns 5 stars from me and I want more of it. Highly recommend this game to adventure/explorer gamers.
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Summary: listen up, it does a body good
Review: The end was awful...I'm sorry to spoil it for those of you playing as we speak and expecting some sort of fantabulous conclusion, but I feel that you ought to know that the end and pretty much most of the "action" sequences were less than satisfactory. If all you want are mind-boggling (and super irritating) puzzles and an incomplete storyline, yeah, sure, get this game, all you have to lose is (your money), bah...good luck, though, yeah?
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Summary: Blah, blah, blah
Review: I'm surprised this game has such a high average rating. Yes, there is a well-developed story, but I play a game to PLAY not listen to endless tales (I'll buy a book-on-tape for that). I'd let the characters natter on while I finished my Christmas cards, cleaned out my desk drawers, watered the plants, and balanced my checkbook and I still had plenty of time for jaw-cracking yawns. I started skipping through some of the chatter because it didn't actually affect whether I got through the game. The little play there was consisted of a couple of ridiculously hard puzzles, but the remainder were mind-numbingly simple. Most of the action was just clicking to move April from one talky character to another. I also agree with early reviewers that the story had plenty of holes, adding that it finished with a lot of loose ends, and the swearing seemed to be tacked on just to make it an "adult" game.
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Summary: Yakkity Yakkity
Review: I am an avid adventure game player. Never a fan of the "shoot 'em up" genre I long for good plots and challenging puzzles. I had heard good things about The Longest Journey. After playing for little more than an hour I realized something: This game has WAY too much dialogue. Yak yak yak all day long. Boring boring boring. If there is a good story here and an exciting adventure I'll never see it because this April character won't shut her yap.
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Summary: One terrific game
Review: Simple the best point and click game out there. I wish there were more like it. I hope Funcom is planning a sequel
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Summary: Not really the LONGEST journey
Review: I was somewhat disappointed in this game. It's very much like reading a book or watching a movie. There weren't enough puzzles to solve. When you were given a choice of what to say to someone, you know it really doesn't matter, because April won't do anything she's not supposed to do. I'm a huge fan of adventure/puzzle games of this sort, and I guess I just expected more. On the plus side, you do get very caught up in the story, and the puzzles are challenging but solvable. ...
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Summary: The Dullest Journey, a vastly overrated game
Review: This "game" hardly felt like a game. It's more like a walkthrough movie. Check that. It's more like a mediocre walkthrough novel, replete with unentrhalling dialogue and silly, ridiculous puzzles. The storyline is inventive and interesting, and it could have been a masterpiece, but the script writing and voice acting are so dreadful that it is very difficult to even care what's going to happen at the end. When I say that the voice acting is bad, I don't mean it's the ordinary "bad" for a computer game, I mean that it's pitiful, even for a computer game. The main character speaks all of her lines like a six year old child from Sesame Street. This looks extra absurd with all of the profanity in the game (who wrote this script -- Eddie Murphy?). I can't believe how much profanity there was in this game. It doesn't fit in at all. Imagine the Teletubbies saying the "f" word to each other constantly, and you will have a feel for what the dialog of this game is like. More than half of the puzzles have no logic whatsoever to them. This is perhaps the biggest shortcoming of the game. Some of the solutions are terribly obvious, and others make no sense whatsoever. This game suffers pretty badly from the "you can't solve puzzle A until you have talked to person B about problem C" disease that strikes bad puzzle games. It also has a lot of puzzles where you only have to keep clicking on the 8 items in your inventory until you guess the right one. Good puzzles are the key to a good puzzle game. This one has very few. As far as graphics and sound go? Sound is very good, and so is the music. The graphics and animation are VERY mediocre, and I think that I am being complementary. I can't believe all of the reviews that are saying what great graphics this game has. Give me a break!! On almost every screen, you are a small figure in a big environment, with only about two or three little things to look at or interact with. It might have been good three or four years ago, but it is subpar compared to the superb environments created in games nowadays like Thief and Deus Ex. "The Longest Journey" should have been a novel. It was a disappointment as a game.
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Summary: Mixed feelings
Review: Very beautiful graphics, interesting and different story line, unique puzzles. If it wasn't for the unnecesaary gutter level language in this game, I would have given it 4 stars. Too too much dialogue to wade through and, in some sections, just too much "walking" to do to go from point A to point B. I felt like the authors were "padding" in order to make the game run longer.The language is very offensive.
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Summary: Unforgettable
Review: I'd like to say that this is one of the best adventure games I have ever played, and i am very critical when it comes to adventure games. Some adv. games i stop playing in the middle and then maybe pick it back up a month or week later, but not this game. I couldn't let it go, the story and the beautiful graphics kept me pulled in for more. That's what games are for aren't they, to keep interest and maintain entertainment until, or in this case, beyond the ending. For example, i just passed the game, yet I'm here writing a review because I am still thinking about it, something unforgettable. Now by unforgettable i don't mean this game will haunt your memories, but the game will always come up when you think of the best games ever made. Now technically the game had some problems. Sometimes I would get booted out of the game for no reason, only to load back and have to catch up. One feature I love is the option to skip animation, like walking from area to area, because yes the areas are extremely huge. As for difficulty, this game was really easy, and there is an extreme amount of dialogue. It was very clear that the people who made this game aimed it to entertain and preserve the story for the player as much as possible without creating frusteration of difficult puzzles and situations. The game has a very "Blade Runner"-esque meets "Never Ending Story" sort of feeling, which may sound strange but harmonizes well in this game. And the music is amazing, fully orchestrated with a full orchestra, like any motion picture.
But I must fore warn, the ending is not satisfactory, I was angry because the ending does not give closure and there will never be a sequal. So if you like fantasy, intrigue, science fiction, philosophic issues, graphics, good storylines, and most important "FUN" then get this game NOW!
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