Posted on: September 20, 2011

archcorenth

Spiele: 244 Rezensionen: 19

I kinda hate this game....

I really like adventure games and kinda felt like I had missed something, by not buying this when it came out. After all people had been giving 5 star reviews. It does NOT deserve them. For starters, the main character is annoying as all get out. She is given all this obnoxious cliche-ridden dialogue that we are supposed to find ironic smile at but it just makes me want to gag her. I prefer logical mechanical-type puzzles, Myst-type code breaking, riddles, and in modern games, physical puzzles to pixel hunting and inventory puzzles. Here the "puzzles", are pretty much exclusively of the latter two types and particularly objectionable because while the plot is serious the actual solutions make far less sense in the real world than even the puzzles of a Discworld game -- which at least had puns to fall back on to explain them. And finally the plot is delivered through exceptionally verbose dialogue trees that seem unending in their delivery of pointless and repetitive information. I'm sure the journey would be much shorter if not for all the detours and flat tires, but as it was I turned for home before the end of it. Go play GOG's three free RPG's instead. Beneath a Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress, are both solid four star adventures (BSS maybe even a five I'd have to play it again to be sure). And Dragonsphere while rather too easy is worth playing for the well integrated plot.

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Posted on: November 14, 2014

Grubbsonions

Spiele: 341 Rezensionen: 6

Old but excellent

The Longest Journey was an old game when I first played it and that was probably about 6 or 7 years ago. Then and now the graphics don't hold up terribly well, but considering that it was launched in 2000 I'd say it's not that bad. However even now the voice acting, story and dialogue are still fantastic after all this time and it's in these areas that Longest Journey truly shines. Like a good book you can't put down, I was sucked into the story immediately and hardly noticed the time passing until looking at the clock to see that it was the middle of the night. The themes are mature and intelligent, the dialogue extremely well crafted, and the characters believable. I almost feel like I need to exhaust all dialogue options because I want experience all of it and to see what the characters say and do in each situation. It still has faults in the same way that point and click games usually do - the solution for the puzzles are sometimes opaque, or sometimes you know what you need to do but you're pixel-hunting to find where exactly you're supposed to click - but these are problems with the genre and not this particular game. However, there are relatively few of these genre-related problems given how long ago this game was launched. The one glaring problem that may make this game unplayable for some people is the graphics - if you can't stand fairly blocky character models and low-res textures then this may not be the game for you (just check out the screenshots on the store page to get a good idea). Out of all the re-make games coming out, this is a game that deserves an HD remake. Once you look past the aging graphics however, you will be transported to an incredibly detailed world with an inventive mixture of fantasy and sci-fi in this excellent story. 9.5/10

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Posted on: November 20, 2014

Gafonator

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Spiele: 85 Rezensionen: 4

Masterfull

One of the best if not the best at all in it's category. It starts as an easy going piece but atmosphere is slowly thickening as you play and as the game fluidly draggs you inside it's world you find yourself being flamberghasted by a marvellous experience and superior climax.

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Posted on: November 11, 2015

steviosity

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Spiele: 120 Rezensionen: 1

One of the best

The Longest Journey is one of the best adventures i've ever played. Epic Story, interesting charakters and nice graphics. I would like to see the german version...

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Posted on: July 19, 2016

LootHunter

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Spiele: 441 Rezensionen: 1

Point&click adventure classics

One of the best games of adventure genre. The narrative is epic and captivating. And at the same time not too serious, as April (and other characters for that matter) don't hesitate to notice if some plot move reminds them of something. And remind it shall, as there are a lot of puns and easter eggs. And at the same time the story is well developed and characters show a lot of depth. Each of them has their desires, fears and inner struggle. April most of all. Puzzles are not too difficult and more importantly all fit into the world and the story well. Well, maybe except that "dip candy into ooze". And there are two episodes, that would be much better as QTE, not just April runs around and monster can't hurt her. But nothing is perfect I guess. And btw some people were dissapointed by the ending, but I disagree with them. Ending as it is was really satisfying for me. Because the journey is more important than destination.

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