On this day, 20 years ago, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, one of the best adventures of the sixth generation of consoles, was launched.
The Longest Journey series began its existence on the PC platform as one of the last great point’n’click adventures. After the success of that game, its creators took on the task of transferring it into an adventure format with action elements, and that’s how it was born. Dreamfall: The Longest Journeywhich was released for PC and Xbox on this day in 2006.
Dreamfall was a new beginning for The Longest Journey and therefore brought new protagonists. She was in the center of the action Zoe Castillo, a nice girl whose ex-boyfriend Reza’s disappearance takes her on an adventure of a lifetime, from Casablanca to Japan – to the completely different world of Arcadia.
At the center of the action was Zoe Castillo, a nice girl whose ex-boyfriend Reza’s disappearance takes her on an adventure of a lifetime.
Besides Zoe, we controlled more Kiana Alvaneaa member of the Azadi army that wants to ban the practice of magic in the world of Arcadia. Kian’s worldview is challenged when he meets April Ryan, the protagonist of the first game and the leader of a rebel group that was also briefly played with. With these three characters, we revisited the worlds of Stark and Arcadia and became involved in the story of corporate conspiracy and genocide.
Dreamfall relied on its narrative side most of the time through dialogue. On the question gameplaya he kept solving puzzles, but introduced i little hiding of that struggle. Admittedly, the latter two segments of the game were not done very well.
Most of the game was focused on dialogue, but there was also some clumsy hiding of that combat.
The game’s biggest problem was its ending, which came abruptly and remained unresolved until 2014, when it was released Dreamfall Chaptersa. The saga of this series was finally concluded in 2016 on PC and a year later on consoles.
One of the reasons why the sequel was waited so long was that Dreamfall: The Longest Journey sold quite poorly. The publishing house Funcom complained that for every copy of the game sold on PC, it was pirated 3-10 times. Therefore, in the future, they gave priority to online (MMO) games that did not have so many problems with pirates. It wasn’t until The Longest Journey creator Ragnar Tornquist parted ways with Funcom that the series was finally completed.
Today, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is available for sale only on the PC platform.