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- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The defeat of Roper Klacks. You hand him an ordinary calculator, he pushes a few buttons, and he's somehow sucked into it. No explanation for why or how it happens. The best theory is that magic and tech are known not to play nicely together and since Klacks is a mage......
- Creator Backlash: In retrospective comments, Ragnar Tørnquist has been critical of the casting of Norwegian television personality and comedian Synnøve Svabø as April Ryan in the Norwegian version. Tørnquist, who had no say in the Norwegian casting, felt that the choice of Svabø was pure Stunt Casting by publisher IQ Media as she was famous in Norway at the time and that Svabø, who is not a professional actress, was just playing herself rather than the role. This likely contributed to the recasting of April in the Norwegian version of Dreamfall, and Tørnquist said that he would not ask Svabø to reprise the role if a Norwegian version of Dreamfall Chapters was made when asked during its crowdfunding campaign.
- Heartwarming Moments:Crow: Would Crowboy do it?
April: He would but he would be very careful. - Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The Longest Journey predicted Twitter
. - There's a throwaway line implying that a MacGyver reboot had been produced. This was long before the actual 2016 reboot.
- The Longest Journey predicted Twitter
- Nightmare Fuel: The "little old lady" you meet in the woods on your way to Roper Klacks. Granted, in-between her hissing voice, uncanny gait and more Last-Second Word Swap's than you can shake a stick at it was somewhat of a foregone conclusion, but when The Gribbler does show her true colours it's still utterly disturbing.
- Narm:
- The majority of the character animations looked awkward and uncanny valley-ish even back when it was new. They have not aged well... this spells doom for any attempts to pull off dramatic scenes.
- The dark silhouette of young April during her second trial looks distractingly similar to the titular Mysterious Alien Creature from Mac and Me...
- Once Original, Now Common: This game is rated "M" in North America due to swearing, sexual innuendos, and a puzzle involving spiking a man's coffee with aphrodesiacs. Within just 10 years, people commented that it's surprisingly tame for an "M" rated game.
- Shocking Moments: What April finds when she finally enters through the mystery door, the one you can see back in the first chapter but was locked. It is the old lady who is narrating April's story in the beginning of the game. The nature of this encounter was matter of speculation for the fans until Dreamfall Chapters provided more context.
- That One Puzzle: The infamous rubber ducky puzzle, which takes place in the first chapter of the game.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: As one may notice from the picture of the cover box, the game is rated "M" in North America, but it's still easy to scoff it as there's nothing too grim or edgy about the game's unassuming female protagonist and its whimsical fantasy world. Once you spend some hours, it becomes clear the game lives up to that rating. Sexual innuendo and heavy swearing are frequent, the conversation between Burns and April being the obvious example. By modern standards, it's still tamer than what you've come to expect from a game that's rated M, but the game is still not particularly kid friendly. Most European releases were rated "11+", likely due to several of the localized versions having much milder swearing.
