If there is any genre that has best captured the spirit of storytelling, it's the point and click adventure. The Longest Journey is certainly no exception.
The Longest Journey seems to be aimed at those who grew up playing Lucasarts and Sierra adventures and wanted something a bit more mature. This is reflected in the realistic characters April meets and the uncompromising worlds she visits.
The story The Longest Journey tells is of a world divided. Magic and science have proven too incompatible to inhabit the same plane of existence. April has to shift between two Earths that have been separated by The Balance in order to try and help restore that balance... Before it's too late.
Great storyline, interesting, well voiced characters, imaginative locations and the its fair share of puzzles all help to make The Longest Journey one of the best, if not the best adventure game ever made.
The only detractions are the lack of anti-aliasing and dodgy modelling on a couple of the less important characters.
Those minor detractions aside, I have no hesitation in giving this five stars.