Okay so I bought the PSN game Journey because I've been hearing how fucking great it is from everyone and their mother so I decided to cough up the $15 dollars to buy it.
As a game, it isn't very good. It's marketed as a game, but in truth - just an interactive movie. The story, the setting, the graphics are all amazing but the gameplay is mediocre at best. The few puzzles that there is consists of pressing two buttons and moving forward.
A game has to stand on it's gameplay and when it's impossible to die and the puzzles are unsatisfying then is the praise it has received really deserved? For the ammount of fun you'll have in this game you can go watch a kid on Youtube play it and get the same experience. (Just remember to watch it in HD)
Okay it wasn't that bad, I enjoyed the story and visuals and general atmosphere that it brought. The only reason I'm even making this post is because I had the choice between Jak 3 and this game because I only limited funds and I didn't want to buy both at the moment. In hindsight, if I wanted to be entertained for longer than 2 hours, I should have chosen Jak instead. No, I think 2 hours is pushing it. I completed this game in about an hour and 20.
That said, it's much more fun playing cooperatively. Meeting a stranger in a strange land who follows you everywhere is pretty cool. This doesn't make up for the severe lack of substance that this "game" has, in fact it just takes away a little more of the challenge (the nonexistent challenge.)
I'm a simple man, perhaps I'm simply missing the point to this whole experience. Yes, it is bootiful and amazing and all that but I think it should be illegal for companies to sell things like these as a game. Okay, that would be pushing it but at least create a new genre for it so I know when I see one of these "art games" to avoid it entirely.
If you're one of those art snobs that like to spend money on paintings to hang in your corridor, then you'll love this beautiful piece of art.
TL;DR Journey is pretty but incredibly short and not really worth the money.
That is all.
As a game, it isn't very good. It's marketed as a game, but in truth - just an interactive movie. The story, the setting, the graphics are all amazing but the gameplay is mediocre at best. The few puzzles that there is consists of pressing two buttons and moving forward.
A game has to stand on it's gameplay and when it's impossible to die and the puzzles are unsatisfying then is the praise it has received really deserved? For the ammount of fun you'll have in this game you can go watch a kid on Youtube play it and get the same experience. (Just remember to watch it in HD)
Okay it wasn't that bad, I enjoyed the story and visuals and general atmosphere that it brought. The only reason I'm even making this post is because I had the choice between Jak 3 and this game because I only limited funds and I didn't want to buy both at the moment. In hindsight, if I wanted to be entertained for longer than 2 hours, I should have chosen Jak instead. No, I think 2 hours is pushing it. I completed this game in about an hour and 20.
That said, it's much more fun playing cooperatively. Meeting a stranger in a strange land who follows you everywhere is pretty cool. This doesn't make up for the severe lack of substance that this "game" has, in fact it just takes away a little more of the challenge (the nonexistent challenge.)
I'm a simple man, perhaps I'm simply missing the point to this whole experience. Yes, it is bootiful and amazing and all that but I think it should be illegal for companies to sell things like these as a game. Okay, that would be pushing it but at least create a new genre for it so I know when I see one of these "art games" to avoid it entirely.
If you're one of those art snobs that like to spend money on paintings to hang in your corridor, then you'll love this beautiful piece of art.
TL;DR Journey is pretty but incredibly short and not really worth the money.
That is all.
