And here is my second of two ‘Games for Lunch’ posts, The Longest Journey:

In a nutshell: Monkey Island meets an art house noir movie.
0:01 Oh, yeah, Funcom. My Anarchy Online friends. And ‘Lion in the Streets’. The Roaring Twenties!
0:02 Wow. That guy has quite a hat. He’s telling a story as a plot device for telling a story inside a game. It’s so cliched it’s almost original. The story of “the balance,” eh? Are you *sure* that’s a true story? And what the hell is “the balance?”
0:03 Okay, we don’t get to know what the balance is, but we do get to hear backstory of the balance. I guess that’s fair? There are many umlauts in the credits, and I’m okay with that.