It was a... loooong journey. I played an hour or two every few days. It took a while. There is a TON of dialogue, AND slow-speaking characters giving you tons of background info on this and that. You just had to slog through it, however, you can keep your finger close to the ESC button to skip dialogue (and slow walking) if you can read it on the screen faster than they are speaking. That helps. The over-abundant dialogue about history/lore is the worst part of the game, and a few obtuse puzzles, and occasional pixel-hunting (I had to use the guide once just to find that there was a small item I easily overlooked because it wasn't obvious on the screen).
Apart from all that, this game is considered an adventure classic and is definitely worth playing. Sometimes the story is a bit cheesy and cliched, but it is overall a good game with a decent-to-good story.

IMPORTANT: This game had trouble starting on my Windows 7 (64-bit) PC. If I started my PC and tried to start the game, it would never start the first time, giving me a DirectDraw error, which also made my mouse cursor only work on half of my desktop, so I would have to ctrl-alt-del and log out from windows. BUT, when I would log back in to Windows and start the game again, it would work perfectly, every time. So, if you have the same problem, just start the game the first time when you don't have any other important applications running, hit ctrl-alt-del when you get the error, log out, log in and start it again. For whatever reason, that works. I don't know why.

It was a... loooong journey. I played an hour or two every few days. It took a while. There is a TON of dialogue, AND slow-speaking characters giving you tons of background info on this and that. You just had to slog through it, however, you can keep your finger close to the ESC button to skip dialogue (and slow walking) if you can read it on the screen faster than they are speaking. That helps. The over-abundant dialogue about history/lore is the worst part of the game, and a few obtuse puzzles, and occasional pixel-hunting (I had to use the guide once just to find that there was a small item I easily overlooked because it wasn't obvious on the screen). Apart from all that, this game is considered an adventure classic and is definitely worth playing. Sometimes the story is a bit cheesy and cliched, but it is overall a good game with a decent-to-good story. IMPORTANT: This game had trouble starting on my Windows 7 (64-bit) PC. If I started my PC and tried to start the game, it would never start the first time, giving me a DirectDraw error, which also made my mouse cursor only work on half of my desktop, so I would have to ctrl-alt-del and log out from windows. BUT, when I would log back in to Windows and start the game again, it would work perfectly, every time. So, if you have the same problem, just start the game the first time when you don't have any other important applications running, hit ctrl-alt-del when you get the error, log out, log in and start it again. For whatever reason, that works. I don't know why.