Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

I recently got my hands on a PC adventure game called "Dreamfall: The Longest Journey". This has been a really great piece of entertainment the likes of which I have not seen in a long time.

When I was growing up a popular PC game genre was the adventure game with popular titles such as Space Quest and King's Quest. At the time there was a company called Sierra Online at the forefront of the category producing some of my all time favorite adventures like Conquest of Camelot, Quest for the Longbow, the Laura Bow mysteries, and Gold Rush. (looking back it's interesting that my favorites were the games that didn't generate a long running series) But anyway...

There haven't been many adventure games in recent years, but a few years ago a daring publisher released a game called "The Longest Journey". It was a traditional point and click game with an interesting story (if a little tedious at times). Then recently they released a sequel called "Dreamfall: The Longest Journey" I'll tell you what, these two games provide for some seriously great adventuring if you are into that sort of time consuming entertainment. It's like a good book you can't put down.

If you want to get your hands on the game in the US, look for the recently released packaging of Dreamfall: Game of the Year edition. It includes the original "The Longest Journey" and the sequel "Dreamfall: The Longest Journey", plus the Dreamfall soundtrack is which pretty decent in itself (as far as soundtracks go).

A word of caution however, the games are rated M for mature. Mostly because of rough or coarse language in characters that you meet along the way.

At the time of this writing, Amazon.com has it for about $25 and considering that it's two full games plus a sound track CD it's well worth the money. And if you are new to the adventure game genre, it's a great way to get your feet wet (so to speak).