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Transformed into a Dreamland

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 29
Date: May 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Buy this game and let yourself be transformed into a dream world that will take your imagination on a voyage. This game is highly entertaining from beginning to end. I found myself captivated by the sheer beauty and storyline. If you have no imagination and only like killing games then this game is not for you. If you like beautiful graphics and a good story then you will enjoy Dreamfall immensely. The graphics are fantastic to the point where the game is a work of art. The sound is very effective with the best music I have ever heard in a game. The voices are acted with perfection giving the characters intriguing personalities. I highly recommend this game especially for dreamers.

Not the best adventure game, but still not bad.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When The Longest Journey came out it instantly blew away hard core adventure gamers. It may have been a simple point and click, but the story and the lives of each character were brought to life. A tale of fantasy and adventure sucked the gamer in, leaving nothing but a world filled with toil and danger. When the game ended, I was left with a feeling of wonderment and didn't believe a sequel would be made. It was and the result is Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

After playing through a good chunk of the game, it became apparent that this game would not live up to the original. Though all the environments are visually stunning and the voice acting is not horrible, some of the game play features leave much to be desired. A new element was added which did nothing to better the game. Fighting is slow and the moves are clumsy and hard to maneuver. There also doesn't seem to be a point to it and could easily have been left out or tweaked (a lot) so the transition was smoother and didn't feel like playing the first Virtua Fighter (without the originality). The sneak feature allows the character to carefully walk around objects without being caught, but this also can create problems. While sneaking you can make one small turn and wind up having to restart again. This became frustrating after walking on broken glass too many times to count when all you wanted to do was go right around it, but you HAVE to sneak around it. Otherwise, where's the sense of adventure?

What it comes down to is story line vs. gameplay. There's still the numerous amounts of puzzles you'll be solving and figuring out what to do next and that's the basics of a good adventure game. Though some of the new actions in the game retract from what could be a great game, the story keeps the game together. If you want to figure out what happened to April Ryan after she saved the 13th Guardian, then play this game. Otherwise, it's best to let the imagination take over and let her live out her life as an old woman with Crow by her side.

More of an Interactive Story - A Good One

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As others have said this is much more of an interactive story than a game. On that level I think a lot of the story could have been tightened up and built up to a better climax; but that is just my opinion. I wouldn't really compare this to a movie though unless you are accustom to watching 10 hour long movies. As a movie this would have to be cut down a substantially or made into 3 different movies, but moving on...

Strictly as a story it is quite interesting and engaging...and tends to let the subplots veer off into abysms. Let's hope the sequels help with weaving it together!

As a game it's...good. The controls are fine and I didn't have a problem at all. The gameplay is little but hey it's an adventure game so you expect mostly conversation and a few puzzles thrown in; yet even so the puzzles in this one seemed quite simple. There is plenty of dialogue, which is nice and also overwhelming at points. Sometimes less is more. The fighting gameplay was ridiculous though and not in a good way. They need to seriously rebuild that aspect for the sequels.

Overall though I enjoyed this sequel. It definitely stands out above a lot of other adventure games and takes them past just pointing and clicking. Still, definitely worth checking out!

Almost like a beta version with potential

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game's graphics, characters, music and playing style were great. I especially like the gameplay style considering I normally play RPG games such as FF etc. It is much different than your run of the mill rpg and I don't really know if you could consider this a true rpg and parts of it seem almost incomplete, like you are reading one of those choose your own adventure books but don't really get to make most of the decisions.
The mystery solving parts were great and reminded me of the old Lucasfilm Zack McCracken and Maniac Mansion games. This game had a lot of potential and they could have done soooo much more with it.

It is definately worth playing just for the method of gameplay, but I would advise for you to wait until it gets cheaper as the game playing time is only around 7 or 8 hours, it is very easy. Don't expect much of an ending as it just kinda ends (no spoilers here). In a Dreamfall press release they said they will be releasing continuing chapters over the internet chapter by chapter.

Shameless attempt to get you to buy a sequel

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Good points: Beautiful graphics, immersive sound, likeable main character, the (unrealized) potential for a good story

Unfortunately the rest is all bad.

The PC interface, which is clumsy and requires two hands at all times, will make you seasick or frustrated.

Multiple MANDATORY (and boring) combat scenes break up the game and add absolutly NOTHING to the plot.

Many, many very LONG cutscenes require you to sit and watch the characters have conversations. Too bad if the dog has to go out at that moment! Hope you have a saved game or you won't know what's going on after that! Oh, you did have a saved game? Well, guess what, maybe you can space-bar your way through the parts you already saw, or maybe not, just depends I guess on whether the designers cared enough to include that particular feature at that particular moment.

Jarring profanity at several points, which also adds absolutely nothing to the game. I guess they just really wanted that "Mature" rating.

Raunchy humor in some spots, which, again, adds nothing to the game. Apparently they consulted 5th grade boys on what might be a funny pun.

Very few puzzles of any sort. Most "puzzles" are merely timed action sequences requiring you to guess the right direction to run before something eats you or zaps you or squashes you or whatever. The (very) few actual puzzles are primarily shuttling: Get the guy a drink, oops go to the market to get the ingredients, oops back to the tavern, oops back to the market, oops now to the other side of town, oops back to the market, oops back to the tavern, etc. etc. By the time you finally "solve" the thing you won't care anymore.

You can die. And you will. Repeatedly.

Frequently, you can't spend time exploring the environment. Or you'll die. Again.

The ending is a complete and total disappointment. Absolutely NOTHING in the entire plot is resolved. Apparently all the heroine's tribulations amounted to nothing -- or maybe not -- the main characters all die -- or maybe not -- the bad guys win -- or maybe not. You'll be left wondering why you just spent 20 hours of your life tolerating this monstrosity since there was apparently no point.

And the final insult: In order to see the last scene of the game you MUST sit through ALL of the CREDITS first!! Unbelievable. The designers should quite literally be ashamed of themselves.

I can't imagine why this won game of the year other than beauty of graphics or sheer length.

Bottom line:
If you want an Action or RPG game look elsewhere.
If you want an Adventure game, look elsewhere.
If you want an interactive story with a well-thought-out plot that ends with a satisfying conclusion, look elsewhere.
If you want to sit and watch a long movie with periodic frantic button mashing which ultimately "ends" in a shameless insistence that you buy a yet-unreleased (and maybe never to be created) sequel to have a clue what's going on, this is your game.

Instead, I'd recommend:
Syberia & Syberia 2 (buy them at the same time -- they're short)
The Longest Journey (the original)
Myst: Riven

Happy gaming!

The most thought-provoking game out there...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have not played a game with this depth of story and emotion since The Longest Journey (with a big runner-up, Indigo Prophecy, you've got to play that one too!). The story is great and detailed, and some of the subjects it plays with (dictatorships, mind and thought control, the limits to freedom, the terrorism/freedom-fighter duality, the intolerance of religion, and many others) are serious, challenging and thought-provoking. This game, like a good movie, invites analysis, conversation and discussion. That in my opinion is the best a game can give, and puts it far above most, if not all, other games out there.

Good sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Sequels are rarely as good as the original but this one came very close. The puzzles, for the most part, were quite easy which made it even more enjoyable for me. (I absolutely detest puzzles)

NOT the best adventure game......

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'll keep this short....

First off, I had to reinstall OLD drivers for my 512 meg video card to make this game work correctly. Half Life 2, HL2 Episode One, Oblivion and Painkiller all worked without a hitch.

Second, the controls are the worst. As many others have mentioned, I got tired of bumping into walls and spinning in circles. And to have to HOLD DOWN the shift key in order to simply walk instead of run is crazy...

Third, I wasn't as impressed with the graphics as others. Check out Half Life 2 and it's add-on Episode 1 or Painkiller and it's add-on for really nice graphics. The charactors looked like something out of games from 3 or 4 years ago...and I had the game video setting maxed out...

Fourth....not much going on in gameplay...your course is set....no exploration allowed. Just aweful.

I did think the voice overs were WAY better than Oblivion but not as good as HL2.

Very dissapointed....especially since the first version was really well done....

LIKED IT EXCEPT FOR.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

the controls for pc suck!!!!! but otherwise, it's fun. If I remember right I didnt have so much trouble moving the character around on the first Journey game...the controls were much better...what happened?

amazing story

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: May 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

read it
watch it
play it
feel it

it's simply amazing

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