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Im growing weary....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: June 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game kills me. The dialog is excrutiating. I often play the game by reading a book or magazine while the characters are talking, stopping only to get them going again, and then just read the conversation log. I also have found the puzzles to be either really easy (here is the code... enter the code...with no "figuring out") or totally illogical. Like you know the robot is thirsty, why cant you give him the soda? Oh, you have to run to a different place to put it in the paint shaking machine. Why cant April just shake it? I keep playing to see what is going to happen, but I am on chapter 4, and I dont know if I cant stand it much longer. I wonder why an "adult game" with profanity and other adult content has such slow action and easy logic puzzles. Who is this game aimed at?

Not My Style

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 18
Date: March 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was the second game I've played of this type (the first being Syberia), & it really didn't meet my personal expectations. Lots of people love it, though, so I'm sure I'm in the minority.

The story was quasi-interesting, however I often found myself zoning out during long exchanges between April (the main character) & the other characters she encountered on her travels. The graphics didn't nearly measure up to what I became accustomed to in Syberia (but maybe I got spoiled?). I'd say the same for the music. Most of the puzzles were far too difficult for me to figure out without using a walkthrough. (It didn't help that the version I purchased from Amazon didn't come with any kind of manual, only the actual disc in a cute, little box.) References to modern day music, movies, etc. seemed out of place considering the setting is 200 years in the future, though perhaps I'm nit-picking. The final clincher for me was that the plot was simply far too New Age for my taste (being a god, dragons, etc.).

I was looking forward to April finishing her very long journey to find out how her friends faired & what would happened to her afterwards. However, since that's not what the story is about, there is no such satisfaction for gamers like myself. Maybe the sequel fills the player in on that, but it's unlikely I'll find out. The epilogue did little for me.

For $10, the game was probably worth the 3 days distraction I got, but I haven't decided yet. I rated it 3 stars for fun, but that was mainly due to the fact that I got sucked into at least wanting to finish the game to find out how April would save the Balance. I doubt I'll play it again, though, nor will I pass the game on to my teen step-daughter.

I love you, April.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: November 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I lack a social life. I'm just thankfull that April's always there to take me on an adventure when I'm bored. April's my dream date: smart, artistic, funny, and rather attractive...and what's a more romantic date than one that involves saving the world together? Kidding aside, this game seriously rejuvinates the adventure game genre. I dread the day I finish this adventure because its so engrossing I just don't want it to go away. Pick up a copy and enjoy!

A lovely adventure

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If endless running, shooting, battling, running, shooting, battling is not your thing, then I highly recommend you take this journey with April Ryan. Great scenery, not so very complicated puzzles and a nice ending make for lovely adventure.

Absolutely Fabulous!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you like beautiful graphics, challenging adventure and a great story line, this is for you! It's not only one of the most visually outstanding games I've played, but also one of the most interactive. You ARE the main character. You get to choose her responses and actions and you get to question others. This isn't just a game, it's an escape. An unbelievable journey!

The Longest Journey

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you are bored with first person shooters, complex strategy games, rpgs that take a life time to finish, then this game could be for you. Share a fantastic adventure between Arcadia and Stark with art student April Ryan. Along the journey you will meet the most interesting creatures, characters, and villains as you find the fancinating truth behind April's true origin.

Lay out of the game is okay, only 2 dimensional scenes however, graphics are quite good. Voice overs and background sound and music are very good as they enrich your game play experience. Game play and Movements are just point and click - pretty much like the old sierra games (Kings Quest and Quest for Glory). Overall, if you love adventure fantasy games you will love this.

Reluctant player hooked

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Despite my short attention span for PC games, I played this game feverishly in the course of a week. So few games are marketed with women in mind, and it was great to have a heroine whose physical charms don't outshine her abilities. Very fun, very addictive, very imaginative, very witty. I can't wait for the sequel!

The Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best I've ever played, period. It has one of the best plotlines of ANY media I've ever experienced. I nearly wept after finishing this game, it is that good. As to the reviewer the thinks the game uses profanity for profanities sake, I guess he wasn't ever 18 (or around "normal" 18 year olds). She speaks and acts just as she should for a girl that age. As do all the rest of the characters, for the most part. Heck, my sister (21 now) would make a salior blush and the characters in this story don't come anywhere near that level of profanity. It just adds to the realism and emotional involvement (when the lead cries out "Oh ..." after an accident she caused, you feel and understand her situation and what was going through her head at that instant far better then if she had said anything else). Just buy it and play it... period. You won't regret it. Although the puzzles could have been slightly harder and the point and click interface makes some puzzles far too easy. The rest of the game more then makes up for those shortcomings. My only question is where is the next one!

Wants to be too much and ends up short.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm an avid adventure game lover, and I hooked my wife. She's gone through Myst and sequels, and we try to never look at the walkthroughs. We've been disappointed at the Forgotten as too simple an unfinished. The Crystal Key was also disappointing (technically, it crashed our Mac so we couldn't finish it..) The Legend of Lotus Spring on the other hand, was a very nice game if not too difficult. Our favorite so far in that genre are Riven and Beyond Atlantis for the stories and puzzles, and SafeCracker for the puzzles only.

I personally love the games that try to set up an atmosphere and make the intrigue interesting, and I feel that TLJ scores well on that point: the intrigue starts VERY WELL. But the ending is, so.. disappointing. They could have done something much better (Beyond Atlantis wins way high on that point!) By the end I was skipping the dialogues (just read subtitles), and cut the chase to the core. It boiled down on using one of the ten items left at the end to move on. Too simple and not rewarding enough.

Another flaw of the game is its linearity: you can only do what will advance in the game... a chicken could run the game by haphazardly pecking at the mouse until something happens. There isn't too much thinking involved and April gives away many clues. I guess the intention is that anyone (even kids) can play, but then why the offensive language? There are five or six a little more involved puzzles in there, all of them have a rather debatable logic to it.

In any case, they don't really build up like in Riven where the pieces would add up until the last (formidable) puzzle. The last three puzzles (in the Guardian's Realm) are a joke, and that was the biggest disappointment for what should have been the culmination of the game.

On the good side, the story is very engaging, and at least in the first four chapters, it felt like we were there. For that, I recommend the game highly. It would be very worthwhile to have the same engine (a 3D character walking in a scene) and a

Buy this game if you like a good story and want to live a nice adventure (the depiction and level of detail of the Balance, Arcadia, is nice and has a mythologic ring not unlike the best games of the genre). But you're likely to be disappointed if you like challenging puzzles and rewarding endings.

Wonderful game, although it leaves you hanging

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I can not begin to describe how wonderful this game is. I spent hours delving into the character of April Ryan, not to mention captivated by the mystery of Stark & Arcadia. This is a game filled with breathtaking scenery and heartbraking moments.

Their is an enormous of dialogue, but it serves to tell you the story of the two worlds, and enhances the game play if you can sit through it all.

The only thing that keeps me from giving it four stars however is the frustration I was left with at the end. After hours upon hours of game play the writers left you with so many unaswered questions. A sequel to fill in these details and hopefully the rest of April and Crow's adventures (which are hinted at later on) will definately boost this game up to 4.5 stars! (the excessive explicit language and extensive dialogue will unfortunately keep it at 4.5).

(There is a lot of adult language in this game, thus I do not recommend it for children, or for younger teens).

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