Posted on: November 14, 2014

Grubbsonions

Jeux: 341 Avis: 6

Great game, but could do without combat

TLDR: If you can get past the controls/combat and enjoy a good story, play it. Dreamfall: the Longest Journey is not a direct sequel to the original Longest Journey (apparently that is planned for later release after Dreamfall Chapters) but is set in the same world(s) ten years after the events in Longest Journey and involves some of the same characters. It's also a departure from the original in that it's not a point-and-click - it's 3rd-person over the shoulder. The conversation system displays a series of one-word dialogue choices which when moused-over, often indicate a direction that the conversation should follow (aggressive, friendly, tell the truth, etc.) rather than a specific sentence or phrase. I recommend always mousing over the options before selecting to make sure that you don't miss a branch. The story itself is fantastic and will send you on several twists and turns through the game world, and getting to see the game from different perspectives. At some points there are mini-games to hack or unlock things. They are fairly simple but fun and do not interrupt the story much if at all. The same cannot be said, sadly, for the combat and stealth sections, but again there thankfully aren't very many of them - or at least not many of them that will be hard/annoying. Hint: characters always block after you hit them, and you happen to have an attack that always passes through a block... you're welcome! Overall, I think the Metacritic score (75%) is almost spot-on, but for me personally I absolutely loved this game despite its flaws. If you enjoyed the first game and want more of the same style of story, or if you enjoy great story-telling in general, definitely play this game. If you haven't played the first game and enjoy point-and-click adventure games though, I'd really recommend playing the original Longest Journey first. It isn't required to play Dreamfall strictly speaking, but you will enjoy Dreamfall a lot more if you do.

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Posted on: September 5, 2015

Byline

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Jeux: 105 Avis: 1

Old favourite..

Owned it on disc way back when and played through it several times without ever getting bored.

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Posted on: April 5, 2018

NamaTheExlorer

Jeux: 246 Avis: 1

[fr] Review plus ou moins objective

Le jeu, venu 6 ans après son mythique prédécesseur, ne lui arrive malheureusement pas à la cheville. Les séquence de gameplay se limitent à aller à gauche et à droite constament avec, rarement, quelques énigmes. Ce n'est pas forcément un énorme problème en soit, les jeux telltale en tête, mais le scénario n'est malheureusement pas bien folichon non plus, il est même extrêmement classique. De plus, la fin laisse un amer goût de préparation (pour une suite qui est sortie en 2014), les évenements importants ne se passant qu'en fin de jeu. La musique fait son travil sans pour autant être mémorable. Les graphismes non plus d'ailleurs, symmpatique sans être une révolution. Les voix sont en revanche d'assez bonne qualitée (je parle de la vo, je n'ai pas testée la vf). La Direction Artistique n'est pas très poussée, le plus interessant se trouvant dans le monde de Spark, dans le monde d'Arcadia, on ne fait que revisiter les environements déjà découverts dans le 1er jeu; même si on le met à part, la DA n'est pas folle pour autant, relativement classique sans être mauvaise. Ce jeu serait plutôt à recommander aux gros fanas de Longest Journey, même si, personnellement, je trouve que ce jeu (et le suivant) n'apportent rien d'intérêssant au 1er. Il y a, je trouve, d'autres histoires qui auraient put être racontées et peut être plus intérêssantes dans le canon de la série. Le jeu n'est pas déplaisant pour autant, il est juste inutile.

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Posted on: July 13, 2024

ratpak

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A mixed bag

Not as good as its predecessor, The Longest Journey, and only worth playing if you want to continue the story before playing Dreamfall: Chapters. The game was made in an era when everyone was moving away from classic point and click mechanics to characters in a 3D world. Unfortunately, the controls and camera are both terrible, and the puzzles are mostly non-existent and easy when you do encounter them. There are also frustrating stealth and combat sections which don't really fit in with the ethos of a story-driven adventure.

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Posted on: September 6, 2025

Hunter_CZ

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Jeux: 179 Avis: 1

I really enjoyed this game

I have to say that after finishing the game I was surprised by how dark and depressing the story is. The open ending also surprised me and annoyed me a little, but I'm already looking forward to playing Dreamfall Chapters, which I hope will bring the story to a satisfactory conclusion. As for the technical side, I was pleasantly surprised that it is still a pretty good-looking game (even on a 4k TV), which is greatly helped by the interesting locations. The game was also very stable. Unfortunately the game does not support xinput, so I had to remap the gamepad every time I started it (maybe because CZ version of Windows). The game also does not like ALT+TAB and almost every time I returned to the game, the controls stopped responding and it had to be restarted. In terms of gameplay, there are quite lot of fetch quests and running around locations. Stealth passages are sometimes quite annoying. It is sometimes little difficult to figure out what needs to be done with some characters and the combat system is horrendous (thankfully it can often be avoided). Overall the gameplay feels dated. However, the setting, story, dialogues and voice acting more than make up for it, so I had a great time most of the time (and I would really like to see a movie/TV series based on Dreamfall/Longest journey games) ;-)

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