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Wow! You'll play The Longest Journey again and again!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Longest Journey is an absolutely wonderful game, and wow, do you get your money's worth! While the Myst series settles for five ages and perhaps one or two characters to interact with, Longest Journey serves up over 100 locations (!!) and more than 50 characters!

And the locations are wonderfully realized and amazingly diverse, taking you from the realm of science to the realm of magic, from an apartment building to an art school, from a modern bar to a medieval pub, from an undersea kingdom to a mountaintop city of flying storytellers, from a mall clothing store to a merchant ship, from an office lobby to a wizard's laboratory, even from a subway to a space station!

Best of all, the characters are fully believable people, people you like and admire, people you come to know as friends, and people you miss when the game is over. As the lead character, April Ryan, becomes swept up in important events, you see her grow and change as a person, from a college student on her own, full of self-doubt, to a courageous defender of what she believes in.

A few persons have criticized the adult level of some of its language. Even though that's a minor, even trivial part of the game, the game doesn't compromise by talking down to you. April is a bright, normal college student and she talks like a college student. Nothing she says is surprising or unusual considering her character or the circumstances.

The Longest Journey has been been criticized for being "talky," and there are a lot of times when you have to listen carefully as characters converse. This isn't an FPS; it can require a little patience while you learn about the people and places you visit. But your patience will be well-rewarded with richly drawn locales, fascinating characters, and an engrossing plot.

The game also has one of the few truly complete adventure game endings, where all of the storylines are wrapped up in interesting and entertaining ways (Riven just stopped, for example, and with URU, you don't know when it's over; you just wander around and finally figure out that there's nothing left to do), but too much of the ending involves listening to other characters talking instead of interacting yourself with the game's story.

Considering the vastness of the game, however, criticizing the talkiness of the ending is a mere quibble. You'll love this game, you'll become friends with the characters, you'll be sorry to see it end, and you'll play it again and again.

A very good 2D game, almost 3D

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good puzzles game. You have 2D graphics with very good details, and you have many challenges understanding what to do, according to dialog. I think you will get some troubles with newest video cards but I have W2K with SP2 and this game is working with ATI Radeon 7500, no problems. I gave the game (testing) to others friends with old machines and this is working OK too.

Enjoyable Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For the price, this game is excellent! The story line & the characters were interesting, and it truly is a long game that takes you on a long journey. But it was great! It worked on my XP, however, it did crash a couple of times, so be sure to save often.

Pretty goodie for an oldie

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

I missed this game when it came out. For a five year old product, it was very nice indeed. The graphics were a little weird at times (April has a tendency to resurface herself to match other objects), and of course this predated anti-aliasing. The game also tended to lock my computer (XP called out errors with my NVidia graphics card) if I saved too soon after a cutscene.
All that said, the game was engaging, the NPCs were fun (even the annoying Crow), and the puzzles were interesting and fun to solve without distracting from the plot. I only remember one (involving a pumping station in the first scene) where the solution was random - why oh why do they do this to us? (she asked again in vain) It does have the usual number of dead end objects and NPCs, but I didn't find ANY pixel hunts.
I recommend it to anyone who likes games that are not endless and are fairly non-violent. I will surely buy Dreamfall, the successor, when it comes out this, uh, fall.

The game is witty and contemporary yet dated and cumbersome

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have a an older P4 (from 2003-4)at 3.2Ghz processor and 1.5 GB of RAM with a 64MB Nvidia Graphics and an 80 gig HD, while that is now hopelessly out of date for today's games, its way too much for the "Longest Journey"...which is getting to be very long with all the glitches.

First the darn thing had trouble installing, the third time around I thought I had it, until I started playing, the character build keeps going out. The other problem is my screen refresh rate is too fast for the game, yet my computer warns me of consequences if I lower it.
And on top of everything else, the game is really having problems with the laser mouse.

I just finished, again, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" PC-CDROM game (from 2002) today, the same day I'm trying to play the Longest Journey. No problems with Harry.

I installed the two patches for the Longest Journey and I tried to cut down on screen enhancements, which might have made things worse.

It also maybe because of SP2 that the game is so uneven. The outline of the character is very 'choppy' as another poster describes. I can't find a remedy. I have spent 10 hours trying to get the game to stop cutting out on me and/or the main character's body disappearing sans her shoes and hair.

Good adventure games are not being produced like they used to be for PC's. Some of these older games are fantastic but they need to be re-released to able to run on faster speeds without cutting out.

You can tell that the game is overwhelmed. The fact that there aren't any screen resolutions to choose from really limits its look to an almost 600X400 res.

I was really looking forward to playing this game but I can't take the flaws any more.


The recommended requirements for the Longest Journey are a P2 at 266mhz and a 4MB video card. No wonder I'm having problems.

This is a good game but it needs be to re-released just to play on a middle of the road drive such as my own. The game is too slow for my multi-drive to even be installed properly.

marf

* As postscript to the review above, I am having better luck playing the game in a Windows 98/ME compatibility mode option (available through though the desktop icon, under the properties selection, and then the compatibility tab). I now have access to the diary entries, which weren't available to me under XP play. The characters are still very "choppy", but April is not disappearing and the game is not cutting out on me every 5 minutes, its cutting out on me every 20 minutes. It is tedious, I am starting to lose interest in what's going to happen next. I do have the XP version double disc set, and again I can't get it to play on XP without the compatibility mode on. mj

Crashes with XP

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It's mentioned in many other reviews but just in case you are thinking that it will work fine of your XP machine think again.
I can play the game but everytime I save, the game crashes when i try to return.
The conversations do get long winded. I probably would not have become so frustrated if the game didn't crash so much and leave me going through the conversation again.

a HUGE disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 21
Date: October 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had high hopes for this game but was severely disappointed. I must have forgotten to look at the rating when I bought it because I ended up throwing the game away after hearing the F-word over 20 times. I also had to go and download a complete walkthrough because I was having such a hard time finding my own way through the game. It would have helped if there were some sort of clear checklist to follow in the game.

Unstable and lame...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: November 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This seemed like a good game at first but later it became clear that it's more like a boring movie. Conversations are SOOOO LONG that I wanted to tear out my hair - and I like the more story-oriented games; but this is waaay too much. It starts out pretty interestingly but slumps down quickly and never returns. Graphics and music are really good (that's why I gave 2 stars instead of 1.)

The game is also unbelivably unstable - it crashed so many times that I stopped counting after 50. I must admit, I haven't finished it yet, so it may even turn into the best games ever evetually, but since it crashes all the time, I just don't see that happening. The patch is worthless, I couldn't even get it to install (I'm not sure if I have the latest version and cannot find out.)

Avoid it.

Even a "non-gamer" can enjoy this title

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm currently an Interactive Design graduate student, and my school often bundles Interactive Design students with Game Development students. As such, several of my professors are game designers, and many have decades of experience.

I wanted to "speak their language" and sought out some of the titles they seemed to respect and recommend. "The Longest Journey" was frequently mentioned as a stellar game: the storytelling, characterization, world-building, game engine and graphics were all cited as being top-notch. It is an older title, so the graphics are not comparable to new 3D games. Consider the difference between the original Sims series and Sims 2 for an idea of what I am talking about. (TLJ has superior graphics to the original Sims games, however.)

I am not a "gamer," per se. I rarely have much free time to play! That said, I was captivated by TLJ and enjoyed working my way through it.

It is dialogue-driven, you can play most if not all of the game via your mouse, and most of the puzzles use "Earth logic," a term I use for a common sense approach to problem-solving. There are a few exceptions, but not so many that the frustration will outweigh the fun. Other plusses: no pixel-hunting, no timed puzzles, no "twitchy" gameplay.

I also liked the "ordinary woman" main character, who used ingenuity and her unique strengths to resolve issues. She is realistically flawed but ultimately sympathetic and likable.

The worlds the player discovers during gameplay are well-crafted and intriguing, and the variety of characters are entertaining.

Advice: pick up everything you can, try to combine inventory objects if you get stumped, talk to everyone you can, don't be in a hurry to progress (the journey is, after all, most of the fun), think outside the box, and prepare to think fondly about the game once you finish it.

Warning: it ends on a (slight) cliffhanger, which is partially resolved in the sequel to TLJ. This won't spoil the fun, and you can play TLJ with or without trying the sequel, if you choose. The sequel is visually stunning (uses 3D) and has incorporated a different navigation system and "fight" and "sneak" combat gameplay.

Is it kid friendly? Yes and no. There are some instances of adult language, and a few characters are fairly scary and thus probably not appropriate for little folks. There are no gratuitously violent or bloody scenes, however, and there is no graphic sexuality. The puzzles would also probably be too difficult for smaller kiddies. Older kids and younger teens would probably be fine, but as with all media you may wish to share with your kids, it is smart and responsible for a parent to preview the material and to decide if it is appropriate, and to take his / her child's maturity level into account. (Compared to, say, a hyper-sexualized Bratz doll or many of the popular but bloody FPS (First Person Shooter) games, TLJ is, in my humble opinion, a more safe and wholesome gift idea!)

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

One of the best adventure games of all time, and it will lead you into it's equally amazing sequal. If you've ever found enjoyment, or thought you might, out of an adventure game, then you owe it to yourself to pick this up.
I promise you won't be disapointed!

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