Windows

The Longest Journey

Description

The Longest Journey is a third-person graphic adventure in which you play the role of April Ryan, a struggling student artist in the year 2209, recently arrived in the big city of Newport. April is afflicted with strange nightmares, but her nightmares are starting to affect her waking world as well. Only the strange old man Cortez seems to know what's happening. He sends April to another world where magic is real. There, April learns that what she thought were nightmares are real, and that she must save not just one, but two worlds.

The Longest Journey is a huge game, spanning 13 chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue, spread out over 4 CDs. All the usual graphic adventure elements are present, including lots of fairly challenging inventory-based puzzles, pages of dialogue, and bunches of places to explore. To help keep track of things, the game includes a diary, where April records her thoughts about important events, and a conversation log that records the text of every conversation.

Alternate Titles

• "無盡的旅程" -- Taiwan title
• "Бесконечное Путешествие" -- Russian title
• "TLJ" -- Informal abbreviation
• "The Longest Journey: Najdłuższa Podróż" -- Polish title
• "The Longest Journey: D'un monde à l'autre" -- French title
• "Den lengste reisen" -- Norwegian ttle
• "Den längsta resan" -- Swedish title

Part of the Following Groups

• Female protagonists
• The Longest Journey series

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User Reviews

Still conservative in gameplay, but story and content get a whole new dimension here	Unicorn B. Lynx (63675)
Spread your legs!... AND DO THE MONKEYYYYY!!	Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe (1536)
Stunning. Absolutely brilliant.	Tomer Gabel (4476)
Great game, tough far from perfect	Zovni (9138)
Great adventure until it reaches the end.	MAT (35327)
Somewhat long and boring, but a fun game nonetheless.	kbmb (399)	unrated
Sub-LucasArts in every respect.	András Gregorik (22)
Let me be the party popper here and express my disappointment over "The Longest Journey"	ududy (47)
Enjoyable!	SDfish (1843)
Great Adventure Game	Paolo Cumin (14)

The Press Says

WomenGamers.com	May 25, 2000	10 out of 10	100
Adventure Classic Gaming	Aug 15, 2007	5 out of 5	100
Adventurearchiv	Jul 20, 2005	97 out of 100	97
GameZone	Jan 25, 2001	9.4 out of 10	94
GameSpot	Jun 26, 2000	9.3 out of 10	93
Adventure Gamers	May 20, 2000		90
Computer Games Magazine	Jul 22, 2000		90
Svenska PC Gamer	Jan, 2000	90 out of 100	90
Power Unlimited	Dec, 1999	8.7 out of 10	87
PC Player (Denmark)	2000	8 out of 10	80

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
remake?	15	chirinea (24654) Jul 11, 2007

Trivia

The publisher of the Longest Journey, Egmont Interactive, actually tried to turn April Ryan into a pop icon to match Lara Croft. To that end, they cast a real-life model for April -- 23 years old psychology student Katja Koopmann of Bremen, Germany -- and toured the major magazine and newspaper offices with her, dressed up like April and sputtering lines like “I find April sympathetic” with a somewhat forced smile (but hey, she was a nice one! ;-) Once the PR machine runs, even mediocre game sales can’t stop it. On her way to media star, the virtual April next recorded a song -- a dance remix of the 80’s Depeche Mode tune The Balance -- and Katja lend her voice. Egmont spiced April’s image up with exceptionally stupid PR blurb like “I want everything! Above all, I want to show the people of your world something of the life here!” Generally ignored by the public, the song entered the stores on April 14th ‘00, and stayed there. The corresponding video clip was never played on the music channels, the song didn’t appear in the radio shows, and nobody bought the CD. Did I just hear Lara snicker?