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{{quote|''Find April Ryan... Save her!''|'''Faith'''}}

 

 

The [[Oddly Named Sequel]] to the [[Adventure Game]] classic ''[[The Longest Journey (Video Game)|The Longest Journey]]'', ''Dreamfall: The Longest Journey'' was released in 2006. It introduces a new heroine, Zoë Castillo, a 20-year-old college dropout living in Stark (our familiar Earth, albeit two centuries into the future) ten years after the events of the original ''TLJ''. After she starts receiving eerie messages from a [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]] to go "find April, save April" (and her ex-boyfriend disappears on top of that), Zoë has no choice but to delve into another [[The Conspiracy|conspiracy]] investigation. Meanwhile, April, the heroine of the original game, is effectively trapped in Arcadia (the magical alternate reality) and fights against [[The Empire]] of Azadi, while an elite Azadi [[Super Soldier]] and third protagonist, Kian Alvane, is sent to assassinate her. Fans welcomed ''Dreamfall'' enthusiastically, but the reviews were rather mixed, primarily "thanks" to unsatisfactory (and, according to many, superfluous) action-adventure elements and the ending being a love child of a [[Cliff Hanger]] of cosmic proportions and the [[No Ending]] trope.