Recent reviews by Gittun

Not the game for me.

You attack by swiping very fast at enemies that have an attack indicator that's barely visible in the visual noise of the game. I like the idea, but there has to be some other way to make it challenging that meshes with the chaotic gameplay.

I liked the start, but the game needs to give some more information to the player.

The first few prestiges and talent points went fairly quick, but now I've been hard stuck at 8/10-10/10 for basically half the time I've been playing. The few combo's I've tried so far don't seem to get me further and I lack clues on how to improve my build. I'm obviously doing something wrong, but the game won't tell me what it is.

The fact that getting back to that point where a build fails doesn't really get that much faster, doesn't help. It discourages trying new things because it means spending another few hours doing things I've already done before hitting the wall yet again.

This is one of my favorite games, yet it isn't actually a good _game_.

The puzzle mechanics, design and difficulty aren't nearly as at the level of it's predecessor, The Longest Journey. There are combat and stealth sequences that would have been better off being left out of the game entirely and moving around and the UI in general are kind of clunky.

And yet, I've replayed this game about 3 times more than any other game I own. I have kickstarted it's sequel for a sizable chunk of money.

The reasons for this are easy to list, but don't really seem as convincing when you just list them, but for me they made the difference between a mediocre game and one of my top 5 games ever.

First off, the biggest for me, the story. The game's story develops on the fantasy/scifi of The Longest Journey, with a slightly bigger focus on the scifi aspect. It does in my opinion a great job of worldbuilding, giving you the feeling of being a significant, but not completely deciding part of an epic story and world(s).

It's not the best story ever written, nor is it the most original. It is however a sort of story that doesn't seem to show up often in games, and it is well written. You can probably thank Ragnar Tornquist for that.

Second, the voice acting, it's pretty much spot on for the main character, and most secondary ones. It's hard to emphasize how much this matters in making you empathize with the main character and her journey.

Slightly less important, but still important in my opinion is the music, the tracks by the group Magnet hit just the right melancholy note. The rest of the music is serviceable, it works but doesn't stand out.

The combination of those things make this game stand out to me for being one of the few games that has made me cry. And it still does, every time I play it. Maybe I'm a big sap, but (without spoiling) that moment, _that_ realization, it still hits home.



One advice, if you do end up wanting to play this flawed, but beautiful game, do yourself a favor and play The Longest Journey first. It's an old style point and click, and the graphics really don't hold up, but it gives a lot of context to the world and the characters. This goes especially for the characters you meet that are in both games.

While this version includes a few nice features and combines the excellent Missing Link DLC into the main game, it is simply NOT worth it.

The pc version of the directors cut is based off of an old build, so all the bugs and issues that plagued the original game on release that were patched out are back. Besides that, the postprocessing that was part of what gave the original game its interesting aesthetics don't work at all (the setting does nothing), so the game looks markedly worse than the original in my opinion. (opinions differ on this, YMMV.)

My conclusion: see if you can find the disc based version of the original release and buy the missing link separately (if possible.)