Journey - A PS3 Title · 6:52am Jan 14th, 2013
How do I tell you about this thing, without being overly sincere or stupid?
Maybe I'll take it from the top.
Have you ever played something, or done something, or just had a really surreal moment where you realise just how utterly magnificent some things can be? Where you've been so blown away by something so incredibly deep or momentous that you can't even comprehend it as you experience it, but only afterwards, when you bask in the afterglow?
I went to Switzerland once, and sat in the snow on top of Europe's highest peaks on a clear day. Evening fell. I had the world before me, and I couldn't even do anything more than blink as all the mountains below me and before me continued to shimmer and glow like so many little pools of orange light. I couldn't even understand what was happening to me - but I know I left a small piece of my heart there.
That is this game, to me.
Listen to the music. It should give you an idea of the scale, but I... I can't even begin to describe how magical this is. It conveys all the soft lyrics of beautiful music and heavenly poetry, without even speaking a word. Volumes of a simple story about an anonymous traveler fall open in your lap as you play. You learn about your past and your future. And there's not even a word spoken or written in the game.
Having finished it just now, I feel sad, and yet somehow completed. Close to tears, even, because it hurts my heart that I will simply never be able to create something as beautiful as this. I will try, of course, but I admit it fully. Journey simply towers in front of my own creativity, without a roar of self-fanfare or even a whisper of anything beyond its own name. But I'm wholly grateful and thankful that I was able to find it in the first place, and so I would encourage you to find it and play it.
If not for the sake of enjoying it, then for the sake of experiencing it.
Hey more motivation to get a PS3.
I love games like SotC and Ico, Okami, Rez. Stuff off the beaten path that's a bit more artistic.
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I think this is definitely in the same vein as SotC, but I've never played Ico. You will love this game.
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Ico is the only game to make me tear up. The ending sequence is incredibly powerful in no small part due to the the song You Were There.
jpg pls go ._.
you SUCK mock me because PS3 is the only modern gaming system I don't have..
Dammit mang I almost cried
Now I wish I had a PS3 but if I had to say I got anything at all from the trailer, it would be to keep going no matter what.
This makes me sad, because its one of the things that I'm probably never going to be able to play.