The Longest Journey

We start this adventure with a fantastical dream of our protagonist, April Ryan, an art student who recently moved to the city New Port to continue her studies. A dream that involves strange landscape, a dragon, a talking tree, and an ominous dark storm. Despite her recurring strange dreams, she tries to continue to live a normal life, working on her art project and working a small job. Those very dreams started bleeding into her reality. With the guidance of a mysterious Latin-American man, Cortez, the hunt for answers begins. Thus starts our adventure with our unlikely protagonist in her journey in familiar yet distinct worlds. The game is a point-and-click adventure that is very dialogue-heavy, with a strong emphasis on story, both on a personal level and in terms of world-building, the pacing however can be all over the place. One problem with the point and click game is that the puzzles may defy logic at times and can require a guide. I overall enjoyed the game but with some caveats, it is a product of its time. Now to the technical part, this game may be unplayable on modern OS. The game crashes on startup, can display missing files, and even if it manages to launch, other issues may still occur. So the game is likely required to be set up with a virtual machine, SCUMMVM. I do hope these issues are handled properly by GOG.

after playing the longest journey, the system font also changed, i have to adjust system setting for Cleartype and re check this again. the resolution of the my screen is 1920*1080, when running this game, characters had jaggies. and this game didn't support windowed opetion, when i used a windowed tool to run game, the character looked even worse in the game. and when try to exit game in fullscreen mode, the incoming confirm box was blank and had nothing to click.

This is an old fashioned point and click adventure game with a good (slow moving at first) story. Please note that it does NOT run well on modern hardware. It can be made to work on it but it will not be as easy as it should be. Save often. Visit PC Gaming Wiki for tips/pointers if you have trouble. A few notes on the GoG version: * It is build 148 instead of build 161. (And the build 161 patch will not work on the GoG version without some jiggery pokery.) * The included station_fix patch is broken, it wants a CD. (If you e-mail GoG support they will send you the file you need).

This game may be the most voice-dense game I've ever played, all in service of a great story and a unique world that is fun to explore. I wonder if a modern Mass Effect or Skyrim can compete with the amount of great voicework in this game? Took me about 11 hours to complete, and is chock-full of adventure game logic, but with a walkthrough for when you occasionally get stuck (look for a rubber duck floaty, its important.) you'll have a good time. Loved the characters! I hope to play more tornquist and The Longest Journey games.

Probably one of my favourite games ever. The story is great, the puzzles are great and the all the scenes are great. It's just great. Hopefully they will remake it one day. The 2D only needs an upscale, but the 3D objects could use some rework.