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a really "worth to buy game"...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game some time ago, and I have played it all twice. I saw that many people said that there is too many dialogs. Well and it's true, but it wouldn't be a really adventure game without them. Thes best thing about this game is the original storyline. It's really good, so if you really like adventure games this is a must buy game...

So if you people like the most action or shooting games this is not a game for you.

This one takes a while... which is okay by me.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have not finished this game yet. The conversations are unending. Much of the information in those conversations is interesting, but unnecessary to continue game play. Hitting the "Esc" key interupts and ends the conversations until it boils the questions down to the basic ones that are essential. These will remain available. The others will disappear.
Third person graphics are okay, but I've seen better. Plenty of scenes, however.
Storyline is pretty decent as well.
Puzzles range from simple to "too much disconnected thinking" involved.
While some might not like the length of this game, I found it an asset. I sort of felt like I was getting my money's worth. On this game, I like to avoid walkthroughs and keep it going as much as possible on my own.
Running Windows XP, the game locked up twice. After a few retries, I managed to shoot through these hang-up points and continue on without too much trouble.
Overall, nice game, worth the money.

One of the best

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

An epic adventure game the like which are extremely rare these days, The Longest Journey really was one of the longest journey's to be had with a computer game. The sheer variety of design left me floored, for it is the single highest factor in a game that keeps me wanting to go on, to see what is coming next..I can think of no better adventure game that exemplifies this then The Longest Journey

Best game I played after Myst saga!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved the story. I tell you right now it has a lot of information to follow and understand the story and game. April ( the main character) has to listen from a lot of wise people to get the puzzles and the situation solved. I didn't have a problem with that. If you played Myst saga, you learned how to be patient and take advantage of everything. And listen. And read a lot. This is a game of patient. The puzzles are not difficult but you won't solve fast. It's about the story and the solution. So be patient. Although I mentioned Myst, it's not like it all the way. But as in Myst, you have to listen to get the clues, to know where to go. You have to read information. So if you thought Myst was boring, don't get this one. April is a student who finds she's a shifter between worlds. This one and another one. And she will find out her destiny because of her gift.

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3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Blah-blah-blah....what we need here is a little more action and a lot less talk. Even though The Longest Journey is an enoyable game, at times I screamed at the computer to just shut up. If you click on the "wrong" response be prepared to be bored to tears with mindless, non-informative dialog. Also the game is a very slow starter. I almost threw in the towel a couple of times out of sheer boredom. Also several of the characters were very unlikable, and the language unneccsarily crude. However after the first few chapters it did become more interesting and somewhat of a challenge, and several of the chapters were fun and charming with intriguing puzzles. It runs the gamut to futuristic to fairy tale like sets so almost everyone will find something to like. This game had lots of potential, but just fell a bit short in my opinion.

Great games take a lot of time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game takes patience, because it has a lot of dialogue (read: STORY). Not only does it have a long well-thought out story complete with various puzzles and lush, painstakingly detailed backgrounds, but all the voice acting is incredibly good. It's funny, it's dramatic, it's sci-fi and it's fantasy. Pick up a copy, it's cheap, and it's worth 3 times the price.

If I'd Only Known...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I ordered The Longest Journey and when it came I couldn't wait to play it. Simply fantastic game and great puzzles! Unfortunately, my game crashed after just 3 weeks of play so I can no longer play this really fun game. I don't really know why it crashed - I got a type of error message saying that my there was a problem with the DirectDrawSurface object and that the "surface graphics" had been eliminated somehow. I went to FunCom's website and several times e-mailed them about this and also read all the contents of the website. So far, FunCom hasn't contacted me. The only thing I can think of that could be the problem is that my laptop runs on Windows XP. For those of you running Windows 95 and 98, though, it's really a terrific game.

LOVED IT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Of all the graphic adventure games i've played, (and i've been playing since king's quest 1) this is by far the best. My favorite one! Graphics wonderful! Plot fantastic! Wonderful humor! I never wanted it to end. And it didn't! For the longest time--it kept going and going. Well worth it, this game. :)

Absolutely Loved It!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love adventure games like Myst, Riven, Journeyman, and others. When I read the reviews of The Longest Journey, I knew I would enjoy it. What I found was a game that kept me in the seat for hours. I couldn't stop playing. I would recommend this game to anyone who enjoys 3rd person adventure games and who loves the above titles!

A model adventure game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It is rarely that I play the same adventure game twice, even 3 times! With months appart I've gone back to the game, just to "read" the story again, and I keep finding new elements in this fairytale of a world.

It's a world of dragons, of science, of magic, of good and of evil. Stark and Arkadia are the two opposides - the balance between is in the hand of an 18 year old teenage girl. An art student. It's about a teenager growing up. Full of conflicts that teenagers face; but also shows a teenager with a mission instead of giving in to lazyness and dispair. It's about the bond of friendship and how it has a magic of it's own.

From a puzzle's perspective, there's pretty much only one that is a real challenge. If that's what you're looking for, this is not your game. But it would be unfair to judge TLJ based on that fact alone. It's a great story, told so you get an interest in the characters.

I've seen some reviews complaining about the dialog. If you want an action-game, don't get an adventure game. Adventure games is about the story and about details. What's the fun, if all you have to do is put together puzzles all the time, but the storyline doesn't hold up? The puzzles are very much a part of the game - they make sense to get the game to move forward. As when you have to get the old "phone" system repaired on the island, so you can wakeup the sleeping (snorring) giant.

The tale by itself has a morale to it - but I'll let the gamers try to figure that one out, and not give away too much. If something would have made the game even better it would have been an option for different story-lines or at least endings. And the ending is a surprise! If you think you know how your mission will end after playing for a few hours, you're wrong.

TLJ does start up slowly and by after the winged people it seems someone had to get done in a hurry and the last few pieces are picked up very fast. That's a little shame - however, at that point you know so much about your quest that taking the part final journey makes you apprechiate the "get to the point" speed.

This is as taken out of a fairytale - but with a modern twist. And as the title says, it is a LONG story. It takes time to play, and your mission is by no means clear to you, until the very end.

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