The Longest Journey

Good game overall , The problem i have with this game is the general pacing as others have mentioned in previous reviews . I played Dreamfall before coming to this and read many public reviews which recommend the longest journey strongly over dreamfall but both games suffer from the same issues and feel just like a continuation with better graphics . The game leaves you in many situations where you are just wondering back and forward talking to the same people multiple times sometimes requiring to say the same thing multiple times before proceeding , The problem is this slows the game down terribly because when it seems you have found the solution or you are certain there is something else you go wondering around looking to find another solution when the solution was right there in the first place , How are you supposed to know to say the same line multiple times for an answer ? It's just annoying in the end and wastes too much time. The game is definitely aiming at life from a female perspective , I enjoy some of the dialogue from the world characters however most of april and friends dialogue is straight out of a dysfunctional teenage female coming of age flick , April the main character is forever sarcastic and seemingly hopeless and complaining about the majority of things going on and it starts to become annoying and unnecessary after a while . Style wise the game achieves a perfect vision of a fantasy and future world , It has many great things to see , Interesting and colorful folks to meet and is always exciting to wonder into the new areas and explore however the game surprisingly isn't very interactive in terms of doing unique things and going into sub areas for a seemingly large world , The story and locations are mainly on a linear path . Overall i would say it's worth a play but the 5 star reviews are being won over by the world not the gameplay , Style over substance . 3 out of 5 .

To keep this review as short and straight to the point as possible: Well written dialogs and characters, interesting world and story, complicated puzzles (at least for somebody like me - who usually does not play many games with puzzle solving)... - one start because none of yours decisions actually matters; there are one outcome and one ending... You might try to do things in a different way, but in the end the end you will always have the same result. - one star because of very VERY linear storytelling. For comparison - Vampire the masquerade: Bloodlines also has linear storytelling. But in addition to that, there is a plenty side quest, you can explore your surroundings freely and talk to people, help them and stray away from the main story for a while... And your decisions, the way you treat others and how you do shit actually matters. Here - not so much. You go there you told to and do what you told to. Nevertheless, this is quite interesting game worth your time and money. ​

I played The Longest Journey way back, when it was first released. It was game-breakingly buggy then (my sister found a bug right near the very end of the game that literally stopped her from seeing the exciting climax of the aforementioned Journey) She was doubly salty considering that it was indeed the Longest of Journeys. I wasn't so fortunate, encountering a game-breaking bug which stopped me progressing in the game much earlier. But enough about the OLD version, how does the GOG version hold up? In a word; Worse. I found that I could only play for around 5 minutes each session before the game did that annoying thing only videogames can do, and hang on the same frame - stuttering it's last chunk of audio like a deathrattle before I was inevitably forced to close the program. I DO NOT reccomend you get this unless you know for a fact that the gods of PC gaming will allow your system to run this game.

I haven't played a ton of adventure games. Before TLJ I had played 1 Space Quest, 1 Kings Quest, and Indiana Jones: The Fate of Atlantis. These adventure games were about solving puzzels and moving the story forward. I went into TLJ expecting a similar experiance, but thats not what I got. TLJ focuses more on it's story and setting than on the puzzles. There are puzzles, personally I found them easy enough that they didn't slow the story down and just required a bit of thought here and there, but most of your time is sent listening to the characters talk. Thats what TLJ is about, the characters, the plot, and the setting. This game is fully voiced, so no reading text. You'll spend a huge amount of time listening to characters talk. A little ways in I stopped thinking of this game as a game and instead thought of it as a book. Every now and again I'd have to choose a dialog option or solve a puzzle, my symbolic flipping of a page. So now I'll summarize what you can expect from TLJ: 1) I didn't measure the length of the game, but it took me a week to play through it. That was playing everyday. My guess would be 20-25 hours. 2) The story is the standard "unlikely hero" story that you've either read in a book, saw in a movie, or played in another video game. What sets it apart is the unique setting. The story starts out slow, then picks up a couple of notches, stays there for a while without really slowing again. This is of course subjective and experiances will vary. There was a ending, I had read in other reviews before I purchased the game that there was a cliffhanger ending. I didn't feel that way at all, and thats a good thing. No one wants to get to the end of a book and on the last page it says "Is the world saved? Pay $10 and find out next week in.... The Longest Journey 2!" 3) I had no crashes, ran into no bugs, the sound never cut out. I had no problems at all playing the game. This is on Windows Vista I'm going to give this game a 4. It's a good game and I liked the setting. I'm docking it a star because in the end, The Longest Journey is a book. Once you've read it, theres really no reason to go back. You'll remember the puzzles and the twists won't be surprises. The ending also didn't match my tastes, meaning I would have taken it a different direction, but thats just my opinion. I consider TLJ money well spent and would recomend it to anyone who wants a story they can play through at a relaxing pace.

The fantasy element of the game really had me intrigued but some of the characters are insufferable