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

• "Бесконечное Путешествие" -- Russian title
• "TLJ" -- Informal abbreviation
• "The Longest Journey: Najdluzsza Podróz " -- 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	JazzOleg (53181)
Spread your legs!... AND DO THE MONKEYYYYY!!	Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe (1550)
Stunning. Absolutely brilliant.	Tomer Gabel (4491)
Great game, tough far from perfect	Zovni (8842)
Great adventure until it reaches the end.	MAT (34669)
Somewhat long and boring, but a fun game nonetheless.	kbmb (400)	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 (1499)
Great Adventure Game	Paolo Cumin (14)

The Press Says

Just Adventure	2000	A+	100
GameZone	Jan 25, 2001	9.4 out of 10	94
IGN	Nov 20, 2000	9.3 out of 10	93
Svenska PC Gamer	Jan, 2000	90 out of 100	90
Retrogaming.it	Jan 22, 2008	9 out of 10	90
Computer Games Magazine	Jul 22, 2000		90
ActionTrip	May 13, 2000	90 out of 100	90
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Apr, 2000	83 out of 100	83
Jeuxvideo.com	Dec 06, 1999	15 out of 20	75
Gameplanet	Oct 16, 2000		60

Forums

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Trivia

Earlier versions of TLJ came on 4CDs. The new versions come on 2CDs(just like the new versions of Planescape Torment) thanks to the magic of compression.