Remembrances of Games Past, Part #16 - Den Längsta Resan
6Given that Demiath's Dungeon has an almost exclusively English-speaking audience, this video will probably not make a lot of sense to most viewers. But hey, it's part of my rather self-indulgent "Remembrances of Games Past" playlist, so please bear with me this once...
Norwegian developer Funcom's critically acclaimed adventure game "Den Lengste Reisen" (well-known as "The Longest Journey" in English) was translated into many languages and neighbouring country Sweden obviously got one of the first "localized" versions of the game. The Swedish edition of the game was notable mainly for having a famous (domestically speaking) actress - Regina Lund - doing the voice work for main character April Ryan. Although Lund's readings tend to be a bit flat and needlessly child-like, she at the very least got a distinct enough voice that it doesn't grate on you too much during the course of the game.
As for the game itself, I appreciated The Longest Journey for its solid production values, relatively logical and undemanding puzzles as well as the obvious care that went into the detailed mythology of the game world. I do think TLJ was slightly over-rated (the overall plot was fairly clichéd and some of the dialogue sequences went on for way too long), but I remember feeling kind of proud that a Scandinavian developer could pull off a polished, traditional point and click adventure game such as this. That the main protagonist herself is one of the more believable and identifiable female character ever seen in a video game is certainly worth mentioning, too...
Note: For some reason the cut scenes and other pre-rendered animated material couldn't be recorded.