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Originally Posted by Simo Sakari Aaltonen
The plot of The Longest Journey is straight from Michael Ende's novel The Neverending Story. Many would prefer to gloss over this because The Longest Journey was a good adventure game. This is sweeping things under the carpet.
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Actually, Bastian doesn't travel between the worlds until the exact half of the book. He just reads the progress of Atreju (who is a greenskin from Phantásien to start with. His skin colour is something they didn't put into the movie, by the way, because the green colour made the actor look as if he was covered by mold or something.
) through Phantásien. The book he is reading is "The Neverending Story" itself.
At about half way through the book, Bastian finds his way into Phantásien, only it's no longer there. He has to recreate it with his wishes (starting with the Nightwood, which turns into the Desert of Colours during the day), and with each step, forgets more of who he really is. It's kind of scary. At that point he is travelling through Phantásien, but not any earlier. And he's not knowingly trying to rescue any world (Phantásien had not been really rescued at all. It had been recreated from Bastian's wishes, with the help of teh Childlike Empress, and all that was left of the old Phantásien - A tiny seed.)
I know the Neverending Story like no one else on these forums, and I know and love both the Neverending Story and The Longest Story. I would have noticed if there was any intentional copying.
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