I have saved this game in a big old official box and 4 cd's from my dad's basement. It's such a beautifull game! This first game is also a perfect one for a tv show. What i love Aprils student house.
That house and her shitty job and those friends all serve to make her such an interesting and believable character. It does make me look at my own student life with somewhat rose tinted glasses.
It's so good to find a fellow The Longest Journey fan. I have played this game at least three times. There is one thing that even after so many years I still don't know: what is the use of the leaf you can get from the plant next to April's room? As far as I know it serves no purpose, but I find that quite strange. Also, I miss only one thing from your retrospective: you have mentioned the different characters, but no word about one of the funniest sidekicks ever: Crow. I really love this bird 😊 Seeing that you like adventure games, I recommend you to play Syberia (the third one released barely a year ago). I will be here waiting for the corresponding retrospective. Btw, I uploaded some years ago the Syberia 1 and 2's walkthrough to my channel (in Spanish), which I already abandoned though.
The leaf is a way of accessing some special features from the main menu. IIRC you plant it near Abnaxus's house in Marcuria. I did have to look it up in a guide to find this out. I'm pretty sure I got Syberia free from GoG a while back. I've been meaning to dive in and give it a try. IT looks great.
Loved your video! TLJ is one of my favorite point & click games ever. I discovered the HD mod through your video and I'm definitely going to check it out. Though, I hate it that it comes with an aspect distortion, it's stretched, as I've seen in your video...
Not only an insightful review, but really good writing too, which is just what this piece of art deserves. As someone who played it when I was 6 years old (you can imagine how little I could grasp at that age from all the themes that it touches lol) and learned to appreciate it even more as I got older, it's great to see someone still giving this game some love and attention. Great work.
@@arkham666 I'm tempted to do it since I'll definitely experience it differently now. It really hasn't aged that bad for a game that's almost my age :D
Very well done. I might try to make my closest friends watch it so they understand why I love this game so much, because they won't play it. I love to finally hear somebody's thoughts about this game, because in my world, I love it alone.
Really glad you enjoyed it. It can be hard to convince people to try older games that are a little slower and maybe don't look so good any more so I hope I can help your friends see what you see.
@@arkham666 my bro says he'll watch it :) You and I lived through this era of games and I never forgot what it was like. I'm also a point-and-click, game history, and indie enthusiast, so this is right up my alley.
Several false starts for TLJ, having played Dreamfall first and falling in love with it completely. I haven't even played Dreamfall Chapters, even though I bought it immediately on release to support Ragnar and Funcom. I need to go back to play it. Oh, and I was one of the Grandmaster pack players of The Secret World. Yes, the £200 pack. I feel I got a great deal of enjoyment out of it, but wonder to this day why is all fell apart sadly
If you love Dreamfall then you'll love chapters. It's basically more of the same with a few extra mechanics thrown in and the bad combat taken out. My guess is Secret World fell prey to what happens with most online games. The publishers became more interested in chasing the money than the fun.
It's not a game I played back in the day but it is one I've had my eye on. The main thing is just how long it takes to play and record capture for games like that. If the stars align I may take a swing at it but it's not a high priority right now.
Great video once again man. Definitely worth the wait. This game seems pretty interesting and I have some interest in checking it out agyer hearing your thoughts. I've never heard of it before I'm always down to learn about different games. I haven't played many pint and click adventure games or any unless you count TellTale games which I've always loved.
Great vid. It is unfortunate that the seemingly unfair puzzles that defy logic might prevent people from experiencing such a unique and fantastical world. Might have been more resilient genre if it had it the same light puzzle elements and more story driven rather than puzzle driven experience such as lets say Heavy Rain and other Quantic Dream works or even something like Disco Elysium, which is like a slightly interactive book.
The adventure game has transformed a lot. One reason I wanted to cover these games is that they show the evolution of adventure games so it's pretty exciting to go through them.
Okay Hold up, Did you mention Beyond steel sky? I think I saw it for a brief second. I've seen it so many times mainly for switch and have been so interested but haven't ever gotten aorund to doing research. Is it good?
Beneath a steel sky is the original game. It's free on GoG. Beyond is the sequel made decades and it's been very well received. It's on my GoG wishlist too.
I have saved this game in a big old official box and 4 cd's from my dad's basement. It's such a beautifull game! This first game is also a perfect one for a tv show. What i love Aprils student house.
That house and her shitty job and those friends all serve to make her such an interesting and believable character. It does make me look at my own student life with somewhat rose tinted glasses.
It's so good to find a fellow The Longest Journey fan. I have played this game at least three times.
There is one thing that even after so many years I still don't know: what is the use of the leaf you can get from the plant next to April's room? As far as I know it serves no purpose, but I find that quite strange.
Also, I miss only one thing from your retrospective: you have mentioned the different characters, but no word about one of the funniest sidekicks ever: Crow. I really love this bird 😊
Seeing that you like adventure games, I recommend you to play Syberia (the third one released barely a year ago). I will be here waiting for the corresponding retrospective.
Btw, I uploaded some years ago the Syberia 1 and 2's walkthrough to my channel (in Spanish), which I already abandoned though.
The leaf is a way of accessing some special features from the main menu. IIRC you plant it near Abnaxus's house in Marcuria. I did have to look it up in a guide to find this out.
I'm pretty sure I got Syberia free from GoG a while back. I've been meaning to dive in and give it a try. IT looks great.
Loved your video!
TLJ is one of my favorite point & click games ever. I discovered the HD mod through your video and I'm definitely going to check it out. Though, I hate it that it comes with an aspect distortion, it's stretched, as I've seen in your video...
Not only an insightful review, but really good writing too, which is just what this piece of art deserves.
As someone who played it when I was 6 years old (you can imagine how little I could grasp at that age from all the themes that it touches lol) and learned to appreciate it even more as I got older, it's great to see someone still giving this game some love and attention. Great work.
It is such a great time even now. Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
I remember watching a let's play of this game when I was about 12 and it made such a big impression on me. I'm 24 now and I think about it regularly.
It hasn't aged all that badly. Definitely worth revisiting even now.
@@arkham666 I'm tempted to do it since I'll definitely experience it differently now. It really hasn't aged that bad for a game that's almost my age :D
@@rosvlinds I'm almost double your age. The games I played when I was 12 were very different from this lol.
@@arkham666 I can imagine, it's amazing to think how far technology has come with games looking almost like real life now
Very well done. I might try to make my closest friends watch it so they understand why I love this game so much, because they won't play it.
I love to finally hear somebody's thoughts about this game, because in my world, I love it alone.
Really glad you enjoyed it. It can be hard to convince people to try older games that are a little slower and maybe don't look so good any more so I hope I can help your friends see what you see.
@@arkham666 my bro says he'll watch it :)
You and I lived through this era of games and I never forgot what it was like.
I'm also a point-and-click, game history, and indie enthusiast, so this is right up my alley.
I feel the same way, I wish I had friends to talk about this franchise with! It’s phenomenal
Great video and great commentary from a great man
And a great comment on top of it all.
I haven't played this gem in over 10 years :/ Thank you
Several false starts for TLJ, having played Dreamfall first and falling in love with it completely. I haven't even played Dreamfall Chapters, even though I bought it immediately on release to support Ragnar and Funcom. I need to go back to play it.
Oh, and I was one of the Grandmaster pack players of The Secret World. Yes, the £200 pack. I feel I got a great deal of enjoyment out of it, but wonder to this day why is all fell apart sadly
If you love Dreamfall then you'll love chapters. It's basically more of the same with a few extra mechanics thrown in and the bad combat taken out.
My guess is Secret World fell prey to what happens with most online games. The publishers became more interested in chasing the money than the fun.
Oh yeahhhh
If the Kool aid man wrecks my place I'm sending you the bill.
Are you going to do a retrospective on Legend of Dragoon?
It's not a game I played back in the day but it is one I've had my eye on. The main thing is just how long it takes to play and record capture for games like that. If the stars align I may take a swing at it but it's not a high priority right now.
@@arkham666 Ok then.
Great video once again man. Definitely worth the wait. This game seems pretty interesting and I have some interest in checking it out agyer hearing your thoughts. I've never heard of it before I'm always down to learn about different games. I haven't played many pint and click adventure games or any unless you count TellTale games which I've always loved.
buddy~ how’s everything giong?. you did splendid channel- ✋
Things are pretty good now. I lost my rhythm there for a while but I seem to be back on track. Thanks for the comment. Peace.
amazing video, altough i would argue pro dialogue trees any time of day :D
Thank you. Really glad you enjoyed it.
Great vid. It is unfortunate that the seemingly unfair puzzles that defy logic might prevent people from experiencing such a unique and fantastical world. Might have been more resilient genre if it had it the same light puzzle elements and more story driven rather than puzzle driven experience such as lets say Heavy Rain and other Quantic Dream works or even something like Disco Elysium, which is like a slightly interactive book.
The adventure game has transformed a lot. One reason I wanted to cover these games is that they show the evolution of adventure games so it's pretty exciting to go through them.
Okay Hold up, Did you mention Beyond steel sky? I think I saw it for a brief second. I've seen it so many times mainly for switch and have been so interested but haven't ever gotten aorund to doing research. Is it good?
Beneath a steel sky is the original game. It's free on GoG. Beyond is the sequel made decades and it's been very well received. It's on my GoG wishlist too.
@@arkham666 Oh okay well I can't say no to free so I'll go check out beneath a steel sky thanks man.
If I have my original CD game in Spanish, can I install the HD mods? Does it even affect the language localisation? Thanks!
I'm not sure since I used the steam version. You could check their website and/or reddit.