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remote
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 Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:38 pm |
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I just bought The Longest Journey for $10 and frankly I'm more excited about playing that right now, but I feel like I should buy this anyway, if only to show my ongoing support for the GRAPHIC ADVENTURE.
The note-taking thing does seem pretty novel, too.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:44 am |
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| dongle wrote: |
| I did not like the Longest Journey. I didn't get that far in it, so maybe it redeems itself through plot after the first couple of chapters, but it did absolutely nothing to fix problems with late-era adventure games. Phoenix Wright and, to a degree, Trace Memory fixed a lot of issues regarding backtracking and items of ambiguous importance. |
See, I wouldn't necessarily compare Phoenix Wright with these games, because it's much more streamlined and accessible — which could be seen as a good thing, of course. On the other hand, with something like Trace Memory, "streamlined and accessible" just means "diluted and bland".
I've never really had any trouble with backtracking or more engaging puzzles in adventure games. Maybe I haven't played the worst of them. So far I'm finding The Longest Journey to be quite charming; I've only played for a couple of hours, but every puzzle so far has been fairly self-explanatory, and furthermore the dialogue is a hell of a lot more fun to read. I strongly prefer the wandering around and minimal backtracking to the linearity of Trace Memory, too.
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