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A masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is simply one of the best PC games, and the best PC adventure game, ever made.

I first heard about this game after playing and enjoying Syberia I and II. They are similar point-and-click adventure puzzle-solving games, with a strong central character and intriguing storyline. However, I quickly discovered that, if the Syberia titles are thought of as appetizing hors d'oeuvres, then The Longest Journey is a full five-course meal with all the trimmings!

The main reason this game stands out compared with other adventure games is the extremely deep storyline and characters. There is lots of dialogue, so it is not for people with short attention spans. The voice-acting is absolutely superb. The actress who plays April Ryan, the central character, deserved an Oscar (if such things exist for PC game acting).

April is the lynchpin of the whole game, and if you are like me you will quickly fall in love with her. What makes her so appealing is her whacky sense of humour. April is always wise-cracking, and is guaranteed to make you crack up even when all she is doing is routine game-mechanic stuff like: you can't go through that door, you can't combine those objects, etc. The many other characters she meets in the course of her adventures are also well-acted and often extremely comical.

The fact that the game doesn't take itself too seriously helps the player come to terms with the hocus-pocus storyline and often highly improbable situations and puzzles. That said, the story, which takes many hours to complete, is also extremely deep, absorbing and often moving. April proves herself to be a genuine heroine, who triumphs against her own insecurity as well as the many bizarre challenges she faces in the course of her travels.

Without wanting to give too much away, it's an epic Wizard-of-Oz, Alice-in-Wonderland style fantasy adventure, where April goes to all sorts of weird and wonderful places and meets all sorts of weird and wonderful characters and creatures. Along the way she has to save the world, which involves getting out of one sticky situation after another.

You'll notice that so far I have heaped all this praise on the game without even touching on the actual gameplay! If you've played inventory-based, point-and-click adventures, then The Longest Journey's game mechanics are a pretty standard affair, but great fun for all that. In general I found that the puzzles were not-too-easy and not-too-difficult. They were nicely-challenging without becoming frustrating. True, there is one particularly notorious puzzle near the start, but you'll crack it with patience.

If you enjoy this game as much as I did you will feel emotionally drained at the end of it. I was sad when it was all over, and missed April and her friends. I hope that the recently released sequel, Dreamfall, will capture at least some of the magic of this wonderful game.

This game is awesome and challenging

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am typically an online multiperson game player, but this was recommended to me.
This game is set in a beautiful world(s) and the graphics are awesome for the year the game came out.
Once I started playing, I had a hard time walking away.
I'm not used to linear plot development. For example, I would come up with an idea to use something and it wouldn't work, but 2 steps later, my idea was used. That was a bit frustrating for me, but I imagine this is true for all games like this.
Also, she is the slowest walker i've ever seen.
Can't wait to try Dreamfall

The Dullest Journey, a vastly overrated game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This "game" hardly felt like a game. It's more like a walkthrough movie. Check that. It's more like a mediocre walkthrough novel, replete with unentrhalling dialogue and silly, ridiculous puzzles.

The storyline is inventive and interesting, and it could have been a masterpiece, but the script writing and voice acting are so dreadful that it is very difficult to even care what's going to happen at the end. When I say that the voice acting is bad, I don't mean it's the ordinary "bad" for a computer game, I mean that it's pitiful, even for a computer game. The main character speaks all of her lines like a six year old child from Sesame Street. This looks extra absurd with all of the profanity in the game (who wrote this script -- Eddie Murphy?). I can't believe how much profanity there was in this game. It doesn't fit in at all. Imagine the Teletubbies saying the "f" word to each other constantly, and you will have a feel for what the dialog of this game is like.

More than half of the puzzles have no logic whatsoever to them. This is perhaps the biggest shortcoming of the game. Some of the solutions are terribly obvious, and others make no sense whatsoever. This game suffers pretty badly from the "you can't solve puzzle A until you have talked to person B about problem C" disease that strikes bad puzzle games. It also has a lot of puzzles where you only have to keep clicking on the 8 items in your inventory until you guess the right one. Good puzzles are the key to a good puzzle game. This one has very few.

As far as graphics and sound go? Sound is very good, and so is the music. The graphics and animation are VERY mediocre, and I think that I am being complementary. I can't believe all of the reviews that are saying what great graphics this game has. Give me a break!! On almost every screen, you are a small figure in a big environment, with only about two or three little things to look at or interact with. It might have been good three or four years ago, but it is subpar compared to the superb environments created in games nowadays like Thief and Deus Ex.

"The Longest Journey" should have been a novel. It was a disappointment as a game.

Excellent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: November 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is perfect. The most fun that I've had playing a game in a looooong time.

The Best Adventure Game in a long time.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is quite an amazing game. The dialogue is intelligent, if somewhat overkill. The graphics are beautiful, the music sets the mood. The puzzles are not wholly innovative but not entirely derivative either.

Solid gameplay combined with intelligence and imagination makes this a perfect game for the teen to thirtysomething crowd. It gives me hope that Funcom will do a good job on Anarchy Online as well!

The Longest Journey

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is quite old now, 7 years I think, so it's a bit dated. There's a sequal to this gameDreamfall: The Longest Journey which I played before I played this, little more action in that one along with story(shorter story) fun none the less. So that is why I picked up the first one though it is older. I learned a little more depth from the first game with it's fun and amusing stories and puzzles. The puzzles are a bit tough sometime, but I have seen worse. But if you want to play one of the best journey adventure games out for PC, this is the one along with it's sequal. Hours and hours of gameplay. Enjoy.

The Most Boring Journey

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 20
Date: April 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you like adventure games that 1) have unchallenging puzzles 2) are long on dialog but short on gameplay 3) are sappy and silly, this is the game for you.

I couldn't wait to zip through this dull chore, having been forced to endure endless chatter from birds, priests and aliens. And I mean ENDLESS. If I wanted an adventure game to be the pc equivalent of a book-on-tape, this is what I would buy.

Could the story get any more immoral?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 73
Date: December 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Most people have found the long dialogues the worst part of the game, but that's probably because they didn't listen. The premise of the game is so revolting and immoral that I find it surprizing that nobody has commented on it. You see, the game is about the "balance" of science and magic, or, as the game frequently emphasises, between rationality and chaos. This is bad enough in itself, being similar to saying that you should balance health and disease, happiness and suffering, and life and death. What depth of depravity must a man sink to before he would put a rationality, the very cause of the western civilization's prosperity and happiness, on equal footing with the aimless bumbling of a corner lout that is instead the cause of all its ills and misfortunes? But the game does not stop there. It continues to deride rational thought and insinuate the view that one must be irrational to be good, or to be happy. For example, the Vanguard makes its evil Guardian of the Balance by separating him into his rational and irrational counterparts, the rational man being evil and hated. He is then made "whole" at the end, reunited with his irrational part, and thus made "good". Even the main character, April Ryan, is shown to progress from being a mostly rational human being into a mystic, rejecting her science and logic in the end. I would suggest you think twice before buying this game for your kids or even your adult friends. First consider whether they would understand the message and recoil from it, like any rational person would at the sight of a direct threat to his mind, or whether they would just let it come into their "open mind" and reinforce their beliefs that thinking is evil, wishing is a substitute for action, and science is their enemy.

Eye candy but bad game design

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

No one will argue that the graphics and sound of this game are excellent, even barring the limited resolution of 640x480. But even great graphics can't help a game that's been designed poorly. One of the first problems is the contrived puzzles, as mentioned in the editorial review. For instance, in the level "The Chaos Storm" (also available for those users wishing to try out the demo), after examining some hard candy in your inventory, the dialog tells you to not eat it. But, the puzzle relies on you not only eating the candy, but then using the sticky part you spit out to catch a worm (?) in a bag of flour (??). Since there is nothing in the game to make you think to try this, many players will get frustrated not knowing how to proceed.

Personally, I also didn't care for all of the voice acting. Quite a bit seemed over the top and, in some cases, completely out of place. Also, in many parts of the game you are given choices in things to say that don't make sense. Meaning, you're given the choice to speak about things that haven't yet occurred or that your character has yet to find out about. This is a definite no-no in an adventure game - it's a shame so many games have this problem.

On a final note, I must add to everyone's complain about the speed of the game. Between the dialog that can't be stopped/skipped and the constant *walking* of all the other characters in the game, I just kick someone! For instance, if someone said to you "I must get downstairs as quickly as possible to save the blah blah blah", and then they walked away...? What am I supposed to think?

So, if you look past these design issues and get into the story, you'll probably have a good time with this game. But for those of you that are sick of half-as* titles that *could* be so much better, save your money.

Flawed, but buy it anyway.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I had problems with it when I compared it to the best games in the genre, and when I just looked at it for its own sake, but I found it to be far more entertaining than the average modern adventure/puzzle game. Though I was critical of it, I have found 99% of people who have played it tell me that they enjoyed it. I do suggest that if you like fantasy, adventure, or playing as a female heroine who'sdown-to-earth, that you buy it...

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