Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Stay with me while I give you some background that is relevant to my review. I purchased this game as an impulse buy while out shopping at Office Depot around 2006/07. I had never played or heard of The Longest Journey and was just looking for a pretty adventure game to run on my new PC. At the time I was a casual gamer. I instantly fell in love with the characters and the world. I related to Zoe in ways that I never had with other protagonists and I wanted nothing more than to have a plushie of Wonkers. I LOVE the combination of sci-fi and magic. The inventory puzzles are engaging and mostly logical, with the focus field eliminating pixel hunting. The graphics are stunning. Not just due to the quality the engine allowed, but also due to the art direction favoring style over realism. I had one major hang-up though: I was bad at the game and unwilling to repeat sequences more than a few times. I did struggle through after a few years of intermittent play, thinking the whole time that I'm just bad at stealth and combat. Then I started to play more games. Games with GOOD stealth/combat. As other reviewers have noted, Dreamfall's stealth/combat is just bad. Since it took me so long to finish the game, I was absolutely gutted by the cliffhanger ending. I felt betrayed after putting so much time and effort into it. How could someone okay that cliffhanger with no guaranteed follow-up? Lucky for you dear reader, you don't have to go through that betrayal! The third and final game (Dreamfall Chapters) exists. Why did I include all of that background? Because I wanted to show just how gripped I was by the story. Dreamfall hooked me. Even before playing the first or third game I loved the story as a whole. It was so fresh and unique - and it still is. I've played it multiple times now, and whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone that loves to get sucked into a story. I only have one caveat: use a trainer to enable god mode to save yourself from annoyance.

BUT its no worthy successor for the first game. I mean its a great adventure and i had tons of fun with the story, but its no riddle-driven Point and Click Adventure like TLJ. So if you played TLJ only for tricky riddles and this kind of gameplay, then you wont have much fun with this one. But if you liked the story of the first one and want to know what comes next then you should totally buy this game :)

Played all three titles in span of 15 years and its one the best journey and adventure experience in gaming world.

Great so far

I played this game when it first same out, and I simply loved it's atmosphere. And hated the controls. And loved the characters. And hated the fights. And loved the story, but hated it at the same time, for it never had the chance to fully unfold. If you play this game, you will be given a series of fond memories, and promises for a lot more, which then can never be fulfilled. With time your anger will turn to sorrow, leaving a bitter-sweet taste in your mouth, and all you'll have left to say is: "Rest in peace, dear friend, you will always be remembered."