Don't gt fooled by the "The Longest Journey" in the title.
I can't stand the overall clumsy, cheap feel of this game. It was done either in a hurry or by an inexperienced team (they should've sticked with 2D, poor souls), regardless of the hype and marketing.
The best part of the first game was that you felt as if you explored a real world, in which all the details fitted marvelously, you could really get attached to the characters, and each of them had their own lives and personalities - it felt real and involving, and the dialogue was much deeper and well-designed. It also felt as if the item-fetching was perfectly integrated into the story and not as just a cheap way to get more length into the game. And let's not forget all the good humour and sarcasm. All this good stuff is now gone. What we're left with is a story which isn't half as good as some say, which is told in a hurry and is dressed into a schematic gameworld with sloppy animation, ugly textures, absurdly-frequent loading screens, annoyingly unnecessary back-tracking, obscenly easy and boring puzzles, sloppy sneaking and combat systems and mediocre dialogues. OH yeah, undesigned plain generic interfaces. Sorry, the great voice-acting others mentioned is absent too - ok sometimes, very good rarely, and mostly mediocre if not downright annoying.
GOOD STUFF:
1. Arcadia looks nice though, and is overall more enticing to play than Stark.
2. Nice-looking areas and well designed characters and dialogues here and there.
3. The scary scene with the little girl is fully worth playing the game. And since it's happening at the beginning, you can pretty much stop there :P
4. The fact that you cand find out what has happened to the characters in the first game(if you played the first game, they've already become close friends to you, didn't they?)
5. That's it.
The adventure in this game feels rushed, and nowhere as good, witty and enjoyable as in the first game. Just a poor excuse for a sequel to milk money from a once-great-game.
The developpers should be severely punished for making us think this is a great game. No it's not - after getting through 75% of it, I can no longer force myself into finishing it.
The idiotic bug that shows up on installing the game can't be forgotten either, nor should it be(even if it's solvable with a bit of web-searching).