the long journey be a cross between a traditional point and click adventure game and a computer animate novel . story and character and environment be much more important than you would expect and and it here that most of the innovation be to be find the puzzle be quite old fashion and occasionally a bit silly and and the technology doesn not push any envelope . ragnar tornquist script and though and be hugely ambitious and and mostly successful while it have a superb premise essentially a pair of world and one futuristic and the other a place of post tolkeinish fantasy and and with a heroine ( april ryan ) who find herself shift and at first unwillingly and between the two . there be some problem a few too many genre clichés and and the script be needlessly verbose in place where less would have be more . most of the vocal performance be excellent and however and especially from the lead character and and visually the design and especially of the environment through which april move and be superbly evocative . this give tlj a narrative range and emotional resonance that very rarely find in game if you have the patience to operate at it meditative pace . even if there will never be a mass market for this kind of thing and i hope it be another step along the way to the development of the computer game a a genuine art form .