THE LONGEST JOURNEY

                   Reviewed by Lol Oakes

I don't know how many adventure games I have played since I got
hooked on them when I had my trusty little Spectrum, but it must
run into hundreds, so when I say that this game is one of the very
best I have ever played then you must realise that it must be
something rather special.

Unlike most reviews I don't want to say too much about the story
line because if you take my advice and play it I promise you that
you are in for a real treat as far as the story line develops. I
will just say that you play the part of April Ryan, an eighteen
year old art student who has been having some very weird dreams
about a strange land, it turns out that she has been chosen to
save not one world but two and as the story develops she
travels to said land to rid the place of evil and bring back
normality.

This game was written and produced in Norway and the
translation to English is excellent, the graphics are stunning
some of the best I have ever seen, the music is also top quality.
As for the story, well its about as good as it gets. The puzzles
vary from quite easy to the scratching-one's-head variety. I must
say that some of the puzzles were of a kind that I had never
come across before [fortunately there are no music or sound
puzzles]

One of my favourite gripes about adventures is that far too many
are simply too short, not so with this one, it took me a long time
to complete it. If I had any complaint about T.L.J. it is that
there is an awful lot of dialogue to listen to but you can have
text on to read so it makes it not too bad. Having said that the
dialogue is never boring and is mostly important in the
development of the story. I must warn would-be buyers that there
is a lot of bad language in this game and most of it is of the
four letter kind, not that I'm prudish but it is not really
needed.

In conclusion I thoroughly recommend The Longest Journey to
everyone. It's at least as good as Master Lu, Monkey Island 1,
Fate of Atlantis and Timelapse [4 of my favourites].

Go out and buy it!!!!

      --- This is Lol Oakes for SynTax sitting in ---
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