The Journey Down: Chapter One

Critic reviews

• Pure Nintendo

  Trevor Gould · Sep 30, 2018

  8.5

  The Journey Down: Chapter One is surprisingly involved for a smaller introduction of a larger tale. The story is easy to follow, but definitely has its share of surprises. It’s a fulfilling download, and refreshing in that it can successfully imitate in the true sense what made point and click graphic adventures great to begin with.

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• Nintendo World Report

  David Lloyd · Jul 30, 2018

  8.5

  Moving forward, any developer looking to create a point-and-click adventure would do well to look at The Journey Down as an example of the genre done right. My recommendation before you decide to pick up the first chapter is to ensure you’re committed to the long haul. By the end of the first chapter, you’ll be left wanting more, and it only gets better from there.

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• GameSpew

  Jamie Parry-Bruce · Sep 28, 2017

  9.0

  Sure, there are a few flaws here and there but for anyone who grew up on the classics from Sierra and Lucasarts, who cut their teeth on Beneath a Steel Sky or Broken Sword, or anyone who is, just now, discovering a love of graphical adventure games, The Journey Down presents the perfect opportunity to see just how fans, like you, can take what they’ve learned from games they love and turn them into a shining example of what this genre can offer.

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• Cubed3

  Rudy Lavaux · Aug 01, 2018

  7.0

  The Journey Down: Chapter One limits itself to simply laying down the premise of a promising narrative but, unfortunately, limits itself to just that and is altogether over fairly quickly. It does nothing else wrong in terms of gameplay or presentation, though, even if the choice of character art is a bit out of left field and hard to adjust to, at first.

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• Game Watcher

  Kyri Patarou · Aug 08, 2012

  7.5

  What The Journey Down: Chapter One does definitively as a whole, is prime its audience to anticipate its next part, and it wouldn’t get anywhere close to that level of palate whetting if it wasn’t a well crafted slice of the classic point and click gateaux. Instilled with an obvious reverence and applied knowledge of the genre, The Journey Down is an adventure game made by people who love adventure games. The ride’s a little bumpy at the moment, but it’s surely going interesting places.

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