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 (60141)
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 (9141)
Great adventure until it reaches the end.	MAT (35183)
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 (1807)
Great Adventure Game	Paolo Cumin (14)

The Press Says

GamePro	Feb 23, 2004	5 out of 5	100
Adventure Zone	Aug 13, 2008	10 out of 10	100
Adventure Classic Gaming	Aug 15, 2007	5 out of 5	100
WomenGamers.com	May 25, 2000	10 out of 10	100
Game industry News (GiN)	2001		90
Power Unlimited	Dec, 1999	8.7 out of 10	87
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Apr, 2000	83 out of 100	83
PC Player (Denmark)	2000	8 out of 10	80
GameStar (Germany)	Feb, 2000	79 out of 100	79
JeuxVideoPC.com	Apr 22, 2006	15 out of 20	75

Forums

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remake?	15	chirinea (24578) Jul 11, 2007

Trivia

By June of 2001, The Longest Journey had sold 250,000 copies worldwide, 90,000 of which were in America.