![]() But, as the game progresses, it weaves their stories together more and more deftly until it almost feels like a narrative dance. ![]() ![]() That could easily have been a stumbling block, and the character transitions are a little jarring in the beginning. The story is enthralling and the dialogue well written, the locations are diverse and exotic and artfully designed, and you experience it all in turn through the eyes of three complex and genuinely likeable characters who, by circumstances beyond their control, are often placed at odds with one another. In that sense, Dreamfall is more interactive adventure movie than computer game.īut what an adventure it is! Like The Longest Journey, it’s both a mix of fantasy and science fiction. They are there to make the narrative more interesting, not to make it more difficult. The puzzles here aren’t so much a barrier between you and the next bit of story as they are just another part of the story. But Funcom is clearly hoping that “challenge†isn’t what makes adventure games worth playing in the first place, and perhaps that difficult puzzles just get in the way of the part of the game people actually enjoy. ![]() Some will get annoyed by it, calling it too easy – which it certainly is in some parts as it spoonfeeds you its solutions. It’s a bit of a leap of faith on the part of the developer, Funcom, because logical obstacles with sensible solutions make the game a whole lot easier. You never do it by searching through scene after scene for the right pixel to click on. If you need to get through a locked door in Dreamfall, you end up using a key. And that’s the single biggest difference between The Longest Journey and its sequel Dreamfall the latter steadfastly avoids that sort of nonsense. ![]() The Longest Journey has a puzzle in which you have to rub a piece of hard candy on a trash can to get a fedora, which you can use in conjunction with a toy monkey and a pile of garbage to create the illusion of a back-alley holdup that distracts a guard. The Longest Broken Sword, rendered in magical 3D. ![]()
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