Thanks to money from the Norwegian government, they managed to create a prototype in Unity 4 and ended up amassing 1,5 million USD in total in Kickstarter money. Then finally in 2013, during the Kickstarter euphoria thanks to Double Fine Adventure, Tornquist launched a crowdfunding campaign that promised to tie up the loose ends introduced by Dreamfall and help give proper characterization of the various characters who were simply left behind back in 2006.
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Then in over 7 years nothing happened and the only thing people would hear from Tornquist was that he had a script called Dreamfall Chapters, but that it might only be published in bookform because the series simply wouldnt get published or greenlighted.Instead, Funcom attempted to capitalize on the WoW phenomenon and jumped into the MMO genre with The Secret World for years to come. Then, when the game ended up bombing because of lukewarm presentation, shitty combat mechanics, and a completely unfinished story, the series was done for and players would never get a chance to see what happened to the universe. In general, plenty of things were changed in that game, especially the character of April who got retconned from being lovable, joking, and sarcastic into being a sour, stubborn woman. Same with a lot of other characters who just gets killed, put into a coma, and imprisoned. Funcom and Tornquist basically took April Ryan and killed her off without any commentary it just happens. Imagine creating a game that not only changes the protagonist of the previous classic game that drew everybody in to the universe, but also kills her off in the final minute of the game without any explanation or denouement or anything. But the absolute worst thing, perhaps one of the worst things ever done in entertainment media, was the ending of that game. The visual presentation also left a lot to be desired, at least when I replayed it. Due to the changing landscape of which genres were popular, the gameplay changed into a third-person adventure game with simpler item puzzles and some really clunky and weird combat mechanics. Many years after The Longest Journey, Ragnar Tornquist and Funcom developed the sequel titled Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.It came out at the tail-end of the downfall of the point n click genre, at least in the mainstream, so even though it received many accolades and quality reception, any possible sequel would have to change up its associated genre. Its a classic that featured some great writing, an endearing set of characters, and some elaborate themes. The Longest Journey is considered by many to be one of the best point n click adventure games in the genre.But before going in, I have to explain some background to how I view the trilogy of games. I thought that this was finally the opportunity for the team to clean up the mess and pay respect to the universe they established in The Longest Journey and the protagonist April Ryan. I backed this heavily back in 2013 when Ragnar and his Red Thread team (and later Blink Studios ) pitched the game on Kickstarter.
No pun intended, but it really has been the longest journey with this whole saga, at least emotionally.īackground for the Longest Journey series After 11 years of waiting since Dreamfalls disastrous and frankly offensive ending, I finally feel the pain is a bit over.Īfter years of waiting and holding out on playing any of the episodic releases of Dreamfall Chapters, I finally got back into the Longest Journey / Dreamfall saga to finish up what Funcom and Ragnar Tornquist had started with all the loose threads they created with the failed sequel in 2006.
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