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I have not yet played Longest Jounrny, despite owning it for two or three years and despite beating, loving (and reviewing) Dreamfall. You're not helping me stay away from the game any.

Great review.

For us. For them. For you.

And I thought it was WAAAAY better than Dreamfall. Why haven't you played this yet?

*glares

Anyways, glad I did the game justice ^_^

Note to gamers: when someone shoots you in the face, they aren't "gay." They are "psychopathic."

Haha I was thinking about reviewing this game for the Alphabetolympics. Change of plans!

Great game and great review. Some of the puzzles were dumb but I agree with most of it (probably a 9/10 from me). Too bad Dreamfall sucked.

IF YOU WANT MORE BEATS FOR YOUR BUCK THERE'S NO LUCK.

I agree. Great game and review. Longest Journey didn't live up to all the praise it gets for me, but it's still a really great graphic adventure.

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I was torn on whether to give it a 9 or a 10. Usually I don't give out 10's unless a game got everything perfect. But I will also give a 10 for a game that does one of the following:

- pushes its genre forward (a REAL push forward)
- has an element (or multiple elements) that are so good they simply decimate any issues the game has

I think Longest Journey doesn't really fit into the first one, but it definitely falls into the second. For me, the lack of good puzzles was completely unnoticeable in practice. Plus, it's a game I can revisit time and time again without ever tiring of the story. April Ryan for teh win!

Note to gamers: when someone shoots you in the face, they aren't "gay." They are "psychopathic."

Longest Journey is a wonderful, wonderful grower.

I remember someone I know awarding it 73% for one publication on release. He now repeatedly refers to it as one of the greatest games in the world. I can totally see why that happened.

I would like to marry April please.

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It's still probably my third favorite graphic adventure after Sam & Max and Day of the Tentacle. Some of the puzzles were kinda lame but the game is still a 9/10. The powerful story and characters more than made up for it.

IF YOU WANT MORE BEATS FOR YOUR BUCK THERE'S NO LUCK.

Fine! I'll play the stupid game!

And I liked Dreamfall. You should all stop liking this review and go read the one I wrote on that.

Off you go.

For us. For them. For you.

I have this feeling I wrote a Dreamfall review... now where did I put it...

Note to gamers: when someone shoots you in the face, they aren't "gay." They are "psychopathic."

I was going to print a detailed critique re: your 1-for-2 trade offer, then I saw a topic was already up. On reading others' comments, I think that there is a lot of space for saying why this game is replayable, and maybe that could be covered with what you can cut.

I generally am very loose with my critiques, looking for "what can we do better" rather than just trying to be a TA and grading things. It's opened up possibilities in my own writing and I hope it works for you too. Yes, it's hypocritical because it can be edited, but I think a relaxed tone can work with editing--especially since it allows for stuff that might only have a 25% chance of being modified, but it's worth briefly checking off on.

Anyway, here goes............

sort've gack!

seem to have drawn to a fairly decisive close this is waffling. Besides I see freeware games that are labors of love. But there’s no big business.

Sentence starting Granted can be pared, too

Quoting Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island right after the impossible puzzles is bad juxtaposition. These were fun and weird. Maybe even the unconventionally weird games ran out of ways to be weird? I don’t know, maybe Y2K didn’t kill much but adventure games sure died after it? though that doesn’t fit with the tone of the review. At any rate I agree it’s sad how quickly the adventure game genre got relegated and I like having quick fun games to play through.

Dialouge -> dialogue

In any case,

My principal said, 'Emo, Emo, Emo.'
I said 'I'm the one in the middle, you lousy drunk!'
-- Emo Phillips

Thank you for the extensive comments, Aschultz! As per my agreement, please send me two reviews you'd like me to look at (I would suggest making one of them your upcoming choice for the TT).

Wow, I hope my spelling and grammar have gotten better since I wrote this! Probably the biggest thing you caught is the thing I'm most dissatisfied with in this review, which is the fact that I get very excited about very little. By that, I mean to say that I should really, as you say, give more examples as to what is exactly epic about this game, so I don't sound nuts. Your comments have inspired me to do a brief rewrite of this, so expect to see something up at some point in the near future.

Note to gamers: when someone shoots you in the face, they aren't "gay." They are "psychopathic."