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Originally Posted by DustCropper
Also, I think PC Gamer gave the game 90%  which is a very high score for any genre in their publication. |
Yeah, (according to
Wikipedia) in the
US edition of PC Gamer TLJ got
90%, which IS a high mark, but in the
British edition (issue 83) it got
79%. I would say it's also very good, even excellent, specially when you know that in the same magazine
Liath got 8%,
Road to India 10%,
Phantasmagoria 12%,
The Watchmaker 16%,
Dracula: Resurrection 22%,
The Mystery of the Druids 23%,
Schizm 27%,
Amerzone 29%,
The Neverhood 29%,
The Last Express 58% and so on; on the other side most of the shooters/slaughterhouses from the same period regularly achieved at least 60%.
Here's how (word by word) TLJ was summarized (also by someone writing for PC Gamer) in the book "PC Gamer Presents The Ultimate Guide to PC Games: Instant Guide to a Decade of PC Games", published by Future Publishing in 2003 (on page 244):
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Originally Posted by PC Gamer's writer
The Longest Journey
This f***ing game is f***ing full of f***ing swearing, nudity and faecal bodily functions. Its liberal f***ing minded approach to adventuring is both refreshing and well f***ing polished, making this game not f***ing bad at all. A mix of gorgeous pre-rendered backdrops and decently animated polygonal characters with a strong f***ing storyline and really f***ing tricky puzzles.
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No comment needed. I would say a lot of things about TLJ but it never occured to me that it was "full of f***ing swearing, nudity and faecal bodily functions". That all seems to be in the head of the "reviewer".
