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 Lynx (72406)
Spread your legs!... AND DO THE MONKEYYYYY!!	Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe (1536)
Stunning. Absolutely brilliant.	Tomer Gabel (4466)
Great game, tough far from perfect	Zovni (9205)
Great adventure until it reaches the end.	MAT (36840)
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 (1873)
Great Adventure Game	Paolo Cumin (14)

The Press Says

Aventura y Cía	Aug 15, 2001		100
GameSpot	Jun 26, 2000	9.3 out of 10	93
IGN	Nov 20, 2000	9.3 out of 10	93
ActionTrip	May 13, 2000	90 out of 100	90
Svenska PC Gamer	Jan, 2000	90 out of 100	90
Game industry News (GiN)	2001		90
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Apr, 2000	83 out of 100	83
PC Games (Germany)	Mar 07, 2001	74 out of 100	74
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	May 23, 2000	72 out of 100	72
Gameplanet	Oct 16, 2000		60

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
remake?	15	chirinea (25505) Jul 11, 2007

Trivia

Funny reference to the Monkey Island series: April's pet toy is called Constable Guybrush. And yes, it's a monkey (tough remember he doesn't like to be called that! :))