The Longest Journey

i hate to be the sole voice of dissent, but i believe it needs to be said that while longest journey does indeed have one of the most engaging stories ive seen told in a game format, as a game itself, it exemplifies the very worst of adventure games in most every way. the absolutely *painful* pixel hunting and nonsensical trial-and-error puzzles that are utterly disconnected from anything even resembling a reasonable connection to the story make the name "longest journey" absolutely apt. take my advice: buy the game for the storyline, and while it downloads grab a complete walkthrough, and USE it. enjoy the story, and skip the hair-pulling frustration and "oh my god are you kidding me what the heck did that have to do with ANYthing??" moments... or even better, just skip the game entirely, and watch a walkthrough on youtube to enjoy the story in a way that better suits it: non-interactively. then go buy the sequel, "dreamfall," which actually deserves all the praised heaped upon it.

I absolutely love adventure games but this one is boring, has awful graphics and is full of bugs. I really don't understand how it has such a high rating.

I love adventure games very much and have purchased many titles from GoG, but this is the first time I have written a review. I have been playing adventure games for years and love solving puzzles. After only playing this game a few hours I quit playing and uninstalled it. The reasons being the vastly overdone dialogs which seem to go on forever without an end in sight, the amount of profanity used in the dialogs which added absolutely nothing to the story, the obnoxious attitude of the main character which added nothing to the story, the large amount of references to homosexuality (which has absolutely no place being in a game), puzzles that make absolutely no sense, and the list goes on. I am not sure what the creators of this game had in mind when they were developing it, but they obviously lacked direction and insight, which easily explains why FunCom has lost so much money over the years. FunCom turned what could have been a very good game into something that I wouldn't even rate as one star.

This is an old adventure style game, made by the company who made Age of Connan and cheated thousands of people. While Longest Journey has some good points, it is a game that appears to be way more than it really is.. as usually by Funcom. Title to avoid in my opinion.