The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes. Embark on an exciting and original journey of discovery, where you will explore, solve puzzles, meet new people, face terrifying monsters, learn, g...
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes. Embark on an exciting and original journey of discovery, where you will explore, solve puzzles, meet new people, face terrifying monsters, learn, grow, and live the adventure of a lifetime!
Over 150 locations spanning two distinct and detailed worlds
More than 70 speaking characters
40 hours of gameplay
20 minutes of high-resolution pre-rendered video footage
If you're on this store page and love adventure games, you know that this one is a must-play.
However, on a new machine, you still might need to jump through multiple hoops to play it comfortably. Please, GOG, update your version to come packaged with ResidualVM, just like you do with Myst 3 - it'll be the necessary step in preservation of this incredible piece of art.
I just wanted to take a quick look at it for old times sake ... now I am playing fulltime again. Dammit!
This game is one of the best adventures in long list of point and click adventures I have played (and of course also compared to modern direct control 3d adventures).
The only bad thing about it is the time when it came out. The 3D models are crude, the framerate of the 2d ingame animations (subway train) way too low.
Also running it natively can be a real challenge on a modern computer. Don't even try that, run in it ScummVM (ResidualVM and ScummVM have been merged into one program). Just don't change the resolution while a video is playing and stick to either fullscreen or window.
Apart from some minor details (the interface could use a few tweaks) this can easily compare with the best adventures out there. If you can live with doing a few clicks more than in other games, this is a must have.
There aren't really any words to add. This is one of, if not the, best point-and-click games of the era. Voice acting, story, gameplay, all superb.
Be sure to play on ScummVM though!
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 !
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