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Worthwile Journey

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yes, character interactions can be quite lengthy. Yes, the dialogue can be quite cheesy and often annoying. But I can say the same thing about most people I've known, or movies I've seen, and a lot of books I've read. The game is not perfect, but if you can look past the irritating parts, it is definitely time well spent. I had a good deal of issues getting it to run well in XP while looking decent. With an nVidia 7800GT and 21 inch LCD, I finally figured out the settings that made it run well and look pretty good for a 6 year old game (almost as good as the screenshots). Max out everything in the nVidia control panel - 8xAA is the crucial part. You have to run it in 95 or 98 compatiblity mode, otherwise the game will crash often. My screen's default res is 1600x1200 and I ended up leaving it alone, setting the screen and/or the game to run in 640x480 had no noticeable effect. In the window before the game starts, definitely turn on hardware acceleration, otherwise it'll look pretty bad. Force single buffer had no noticeable effect, I left it unselected. The most important setting (besides 8xAA) is turning shadows off. These settings fix the trailing April issues, the screen not updating when entering new areas (mostly, I still came across some where I had to turn off hardware acceleration), and the vaseline effect when moving your pointer. I played Tomb Raider Legend right before, so obviously I was a little more concerned with getting the game to look as good as possible. Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle are still my favorite adventures, but TLJ is definitely in my top ten.

Interactive Cinematic Animated film

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the most beautiful and elaborated stories for a videogame, though I wonder if this film-like experience should perhaps be considered more like an interactive computer film than a game. A blend of Tolkien's mysticism and Blade Runner's anti corporate futurism. Enchanting voice acting to the ears and visually rich environments. I also recommend playing the second part of this trilogy that appeared for the xbox(Dreamfall:The longest journey). One day a film shoud be made of this trascending stories.

Blah, blah, blah YAWN!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: June 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I don't feel too bad, really, about getting this game, I only spent 9.99 for it. After all I was dupped into spenting much more for games that were extremely bad. With this one, at least the graphics were very good, simular to Syberia (which was far superior to this one, save the distracting cell phone conversations that had nothing to do with the plot). Why I hated this game? They talked too much, they talked more then my ex-wife, her mother, one of those boring late-night shows on PBS, and a parrot on speed rolled into one. They ran their mouths so much that I hated running into other characters. I played for a little more then an hour and still hadn't advanced much. Not because of having any difficulting in playing, but I could stand all the boredom. I hated the characters, a bunch of Bohemian weirdos that make your spinchter tighten with talks of free sex (hetero and homo)and other forgettable nonsense. If you bought it and liked it, let alone finally got to the end of it, you'll see why it's the Longest Journey. The longest part is being able to stand the BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! I'd sit through a Woody Allen film festival with a bottle of No-Doz before I'd ever play this game again.

The Longest Conversations...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: August 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I thought I'd enjoy this game based on some of the glowing reviews it has but it has turned out to be a big disappointment. I liked Syberia, Darkfall, The Black Mirror - all of which had compelling storylines and great atmosphere.

The Longest Journey has neither. I find the atmosphere bleak and even depressing in this game. Worst of all, the conversations are TOO LONG. By the time the plot of the story was revealed I was nodding off at the keyboard.

When the dialogue isn't rambling on about restoring the "Balance" and how it got all messed up it's often crude and obscene. Lots of "f" words and offensive sexual remarks which are really unnecessary. Whoever wrote this storyline has a very adolescent mind.

Annoyingly, at one point I saved the game and when I returned I found that all of the work I had done was lost (even though the picture which shows where April is at indicates the new save). That is maddening.

I'm glad I paid only ten bucks for this game. It's so slow and vapid that I'd be annoyed if I wasted any more money and time on it.

I've played it twice, and only twice

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: September 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I agree with all the other reviews, there's LOTS of dialog. But I've found an answer! I've found if you press the Esc key, it will skip over dialog. Some things you need to hear, because it gives reference to where to go next. But most of it can be overlooked, I think. The second time I played it, I skipped all the dialog and actually PLAYED the game.

The scenes are great, too. Lots of detail. It's a good game, but I love MYST more. Syberia & Syberia 2 are good games too. I would say they are superiour to The Longest Journey. But you can make up your own mind.

My suggestion - buy Syberia instead

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I didn't really like this game much. I found it rather too verbose, frustratingly verbose and boring. There is so much mindless blabber to wade your way through, and wade your way through you must as the clues are all in the speech.

But worst of all was the ending which made a complete mockery of the entire quest and left me feeling drained and depressed.

I say forget this game and buy Syberia instead, which I found so much more interesting and fun to play.

.....Ms. Ryan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

April Ryan is a teenage art student who embraces an incredible adventure. There is a balance between the two worlds of Stark and Aracadia that gets disrupted by chaos. April starts an adventure through the advice of a character that will discover the truth. This game has REAL locations like her apartment and the cafe, to name a few. April has the power to shift between the two worlds and with it she discovers pieces of the puzzle that will lead her closer to her own being while helping others along the way. This journey is long but you will feel like you are right there with her as she takes you across two worlds that will throw you into an adventure that you will never forget. There are more than 50 locations and people to interact with. I hoped it never ended but I also discovered that April Ryan is a PC adventure ledgend.

review: the longest journey

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

the longest journey was made for me, i think. i love fantasy games and this one has an amazing story. and though i like the story-lines in some RPGs, i hate the fighting style, which the longest journey doesn't have. in the end, it leaves you wanting much more.. which is why i bought dreamfall for xbox, which is just as awesome if not better.

The Longest Journey

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Definitly for mature players, providing many hours of multi choice game playing clues. Every chapter is like starting a new game!

VERY LONG

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I did not like having to go back and forth so much between areas with so much distance between them. The graphics and storyline were nice. Puzzles were easily worked and yet still challenging. Sometimes I was totally clueless where to go next and spent a lot of time going back and forth to talk to people....that was a little annoying. I did enjoy it...it was engrossing, kind of like being in a movie. A very LONG movie! :-)

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