![]() ![]() Delivery Guy Infiltration: April breaks into the Vanguard headquarters by pretending to deliver pizza.A Date with Rosie Palms: Wino, the man innocuously squatting with his back turned next to the steps to Warren Hughes' apartment, appears to be in the middle of doing this.Cymbal-Banging Monkey: The Guybrush monkey toy.Cyber Punk Is Techno: A lot of technoheads in the cyberpunk metropolis of Newport.Other solutions involve conning your way around problems. First you poison him (or at least give him a severely upset stomach) to get him to move out of an area, then you steal his glass eye (he obviously becomes very panicked when you do this) and replace it with a plastic eye from a toy monkey (which he then puts in his eye socket). Cruelty Is the Only Option: There are other things too, but special mention goes to Detective Minelli.Creator Cameo: Ragnar Tørnquist voices Marcus, a minor character near the start of the game.Covert Group with Mundane Front: In Stark, the Vanguard are working under the cover of the Church of Voltec.In true Longest Journey Fashion, she points out how easy obtaining these pieces was. Cosmic Deadline: Sort of a Disc one variant, with April obtaining two pieces of the stone disc within roughly ten minutes of each other.April points out that obviously, he must be a cop. Conspicuous Trenchcoat: Minelli uses this to secretly keep an eye on the movie entrance.Cloudcuckoolander: You never know what George the maintenance man will say next.April doesn't want to be in that role either, but grows into it. When April asks Cortez if she is the chosen one, he denies the idea. Chekhov's Volcano: The volcano on Alais.Chekhov's Gun: The Mystery Door by the Fringe.But the story starts to take a very dark turn when the Tyren army invades Marcuria and Emma is shot by the Vanguard. Cerebus Syndrome: Initially the story does not take itself too seriously, being at some points an Affectionate Parody of fantasy stories and even campy and comedic at times, with lots of Lampshade Hanging.Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Glass eye on retinal scanner.By the end Arcadia is under attack and Tobias is dead.She even admits as not knowing how to feel as she starts her trek "home". After all her numerous trials and sacrifices throughout TLJ, April is basically given heartfelt thanks.Bird People: The Alatien are roughly humanoid birds with wings for arms. ![]() Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Whenever Cortez discusses art with April.Ancient Tradition: The Sentinel Fathers.Their ancestors apparently came from space. Ancient Astronauts: The Alatien and the Maerum has a common lineage.Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: The Talisman of the Balance helps April out in various situations.Afterward, the mage gets sucked into the calculator, for reasons unexplained. Alphabet Soup Cans: Roper Klack is beaten by using a calculator, to prove that you can do math and he can't.Almost Dead Guy: Flipper utters some final words to April when she meets him half-dead.As her familiar world crumbles around her, April has to dive deeper into the secrets of the universe, fulfill cryptic prophecies, bring down an Ancient Conspiracy or two, save the Guardian of the Balance, and ultimately restore the harmony between the Twin Worlds of Stark and Arcadia. Then a weird Cool Old Guy named Cortez appears and tells her that she is The Chosen One who has to Save Both Worlds - and then he sends her to that other world, Arcadia, that she is supposed to save. She has her share of problems with her parents, insecurity about her future, and increasingly strange dreams, but she also has some great friends, a job, and a friendly landlady. In November 2014, The Longest Journey also received an iOS port.Īpril Ryan is an ordinary art student living in the Orwellian metropolis Newport and applying for the local Academy of Arts. Famous for its expansive storyline, a lovable, Genre Savvy heroine, and flawless gameplay (as far as point-and-click gameplay goes), the game is commonly credited with resurrecting the Adventure Game genre after its crisis in the late '90s. It is a 1999 Adventure Game written by Ragnar Tørnquist and developed by the Norwegian company Funcom for Microsoft Windows. The Longest Journey is the first game of the The Longest Journey Saga. ![]()
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