The Longest Journey

I love point-and-click adventure games, but I certainly haven't played all of them. It is still safe to say for me that The Longest Journey will never fall out of my top 3 greatest of all time. The storyline is epic, the plot twists are not easily predicted (especially at the end of the journey), the dialog is smart (and not for kids), there is tons of information to gather, and lots of intriguing mysteries to solve with over a dozen chapters. I've played through The Longest Journey several times over the years, and I gain more appreciation for everything it got right each time. The only down-points I would give it are that it needs that little police station fix-patch to keep the game from crashing, and some of the puzzle solutions in the early chapters are bogglingly silly. I challenge that absolutely no-one figured out how to get that key by logical deduction. You looked it up or someone told you. ;) But these cons do not detract from the full experience, which is a very well-told, well-acted, beautiful game.

For starters the game does not start at all! you have to run a registry fix and manually allocate the game files to be read by executable.. Then the game will randomly crash when runnign the video cutscenes, and of course there is no auto saving - so if you forgot to save.. you have to do it all over again. Very displeased with lack of maintenance from GOG on this game, its a good old classic.. but let down by technical issues in 2024 !

Yes, the graphics are good and the plot line is engaging. Game play though? A great disappointment considering all the positive reviews. The Longest Journey is certainly just that. Long. The puzzles aren't quirky nor fun. The game isn't drawn out because of difficulty, it's drawn out with fetch object quests that involves over five minutes of watching your character walk from one side of the screen to the other. A couple of the puzzles are also so obscure that short of clicking all over the screen, take forever. (Luckily, there are walk throughs to save you from that fate.) The dialogue (not the cut scenes, the cut scenes are amazing) can also be so tedious I wondered why I was clicking on the options in the first place instead of going off to explore elsewhere. It looks stunning. It's immersive. Yada yada yada. None of that matters if the game itself is a boring mess. I'd rather go read a book or watch a movie then play this game. If you're looking for a point and click game to try instead, Sanitarium has both an amazing storyline and intriguing puzzles. Real Myst gives the gamer an amazing world experience and intense brain benders. The Longest Journey? At least it's long...

Game's just great, but game dialog boxes (e.g. save or exit game) rendered all in white make it almost unplayable (there are key combinations, but you still have to guess what are you getting asked about), game start window opening under other already opened windows is iritating too.

It has the feeling of an old point-and-click adventure, but topped with great graphics. Every scene, every character and every step of the journey has its own personality. After traveling across all those places, you come to the end realising the marvelous places you have visited, the good friends you have made and the things you have learned from this universe.