May 21st, 2007

Guybrush/Elaine

Not quite the Neverending Story

I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I was playing The Longest Journey - an entry of that oft-neglected genre of computer games, the point-and-click adventure. Following on from the purely text-based games which have been around for decades, the point-and-click games had their heyday in the 90s, most notably in the hands of LucasArts, with the colossus of the genre being the Monkey Island series. Fans of those games will know that it's high praise indeed when I say that The Longest Journey is right up there with Monkey Island at its best. As for the sequel, Dreamfall...

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