Otherwise, avoid like plague (or get Heimat Defender if it hasn't been completely wiped off the Internet, which was actually free and had much higher production value than this lazy 2bit hack job that they have a gall to sell for $15 a pop)
Also braindead puzzles. By its predecessor's standards it should be legally tagged as a "walking simulator". I've started off the series with this game, overall liked it (solid story and dialogs, above average voice acting), but didn't catch all the references to the previous game. After finishing The Longest Journey and replaying Dreamfall: TLJ, I found out that the game is reference-pandering an awful lot towards the fans of the characters and the world of the first game. Just a shame that they've utterly dumbed down the puzzle challenges, making it borderline interactive movie (on the other hand, the 90s standards for puzzle challenges wouldn't fly in 2000s, so I can understand decision to streamline the story-telling the developers were certainly interested in the most). What I can't understand and won't forgive is having no conclusion to the story whatsoever, leaving the audience with dreadfully blatant cliffhanger and entire premise in the state of perpetual mess (damn Valve and their bigger than life HL2 project for normalizing that trend among the games!) Still, the ride was interesting while it lasted, so if you're okay with cliffhangers and want to hear a good old world conspiracy story full of half-truths and mysteries - go for it.
I played this game after enjoying Dreamfall and had a hard time adapting to how horribly aged both the graphics and the engine, full of bugs, if tried to be run on a modern system. Thankfully, nothing ResidualVM software can't fix. Also some puzzle are the most obtuse thing ever, operated on a moon logic, which was a standard level of challenge back when the game was released. Again, nothing a walkthrough can't fix and nobody feel ashamed of using those for the sake of keeping up the pace of the story. Luckily, both writing and voice actors' performance hasn't aged a bit and if you let yourself in, the story will slowly suck you into its magnificent reality and let you travel across the worlds, exploring them from the deepest bottoms of their oceans to the tallest mountains and buildings, hiding all the mystery, all the dark and sinister secrets that keep their worlds spinning. They should make a fantasy/sci-fi epic on a big screen out of it some day, "Lord of the Rings" style.
