The ending was both the best and worst part. Dreamfall: Chapters will likely be on par with The Longest Journey.

User Rating: 8.3 | Dreamfall: The Longest Journey PC
By Zathri | Review Date:
It's hard to see how or why a game will be good/bad in certain areas during development. Looking back on it, there's a lot of editing that could have been made to improve the game's story and overall game play experience. The environments were absolutely beautiful on maximum quality as well as creative. The only true negative was the obvious attempts to block off certain passageways or locked doors. There was no real sense of exploration in the game. Much of the game is simply watching your character run back and forth or having the story told to you. And that's where the game truly shines. The storyline is excellent. It was more of a movie than a game.

The puzzles were generally go here, return, go back, and return again. None of them were difficult nor of the same type as the first game. The game is definitely geared towards an adolescent crowd.
The fight sequences need to go and the playable Assassin character was almost unnecessary. He must be a major character in the next one.
The voice acting was very good and the music was adequate. I recall TLJ being better and having the full soundtrack included in the game. Dreamfall uses a band named Magnet and not all of the songs seem to fit as well. There might have been a better choice for USA audiences or simply going with an orchestral score the entire time may have been a better choice.

Characters were rounded, but I really missed all of the side dialogs that were a nice fun part of TLJ. I realized how important it was to have two characters interacting each other throughout the game. In TLJ, April and Crow were great together. In Dreamfall, each character is basically alone with his/her environment and it loses a lot of player immersement because of it.

But the game really shines at the end. Really, the last dialog when the game basically says, wait till next time! Makes you wonder if this game could have been the first 2 hours of the next game and not have lost any of the storyline. Now that I have a vested interest in the game series, I can't wait for the third one. Of course, TLJ was one of my favorite games and stories. Hopefully it will be released in a 2008 and a new segment every 1 year at a budget price so no one has to wait as long.

I think one of the biggest reasons why it failed to sell as much it could have was some of the unnecessary content. The game received an MA 17+ rating in the USA. It could have been easily reduced by removing unnecessary content.

Overall, it’s definitely worth playing, but you should play The Longest Journey first. You might even want to wait to on playing Dreamfall until Dreamfall: Chapters begin to be released. But the first one stands alone.

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