Review of classic PC adventure game, The Longest Journey. The review itself is relatively in-dept, offering views and opinions different then the countless other reviews.
VGChartz's Taneli Palola: "Endings can have a profound effect on a person's opinion on any story in any medium, from film and TV to books and video games. A great ending can elevate a story to new heights, while a disappointing one can instantly undo all the work done in the story before that one moment. Sometimes, the element that ties everything together at the end can also just be a piece of music, as proven by the following games."
BacklogCritic: "Funcom’s daring attempt at creating an adventure game – a genre in severe decline by the mid-2000s – is an ambitious, yet supremely flawed project where gameplay is eschewed in favour of narrative."
Ryan Crocker from GameGrin writes, "It pains me to admit this, but I've been playing point 'n' click adventure games for close to 30 years. That's actual decades. (Christ on a bike, man! Think of what great things you might have accomplished if you hadn't spent all that time lounging about like some pasty, goggle-eyed slug!) When LucasArts released its seminal adventure 'The Secret Of Monkey Island', I was a spotty adolescent who would routinely shun any form of social interaction in favour of sitting in the dark in front of my beloved Amiga 500. Many were the hours I spent combining a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle with a packet of breath mints in an often futile attempt to accomplish some impossibly silly task. My parents were of the view it was an embarrassing waste of time; time better spent mowing the lawn. I vehemently disagreed. I still do."
Old school gamig fun. I think this and Dreamfall are available on a bundle offer from Steam.