My journey to finish Journey: Ten years in the making

Your presentation is so chill and relaxing! Loved it. Sounds like it's time for me install Journey once again.

Journey is one of my favorite video games. I would easily count it in my top twenty favorite video games. The first time I played it I sat down and beat it in one sitting and had what I can only describe as a religious experience. The game moved me to such a degree I still get a feeling of profound calm wash over me any time I see those sands or hear the music. I tried to show my mother the game at the time, thinking she'd really enjoy the beauty of it. But after just a little while of watching she said "So...it's just a guy walking through some sand?" Maybe that's one of the reasons why the game feels like such a personal experience to me. Any time I do play this game (which I haven't done in a while, I need to fix that) I turn off any online functions. I want to play the game alone. I want to experience the calm serenity of that world and the beauty of isolation.

It's weird, or maybe it's not, but I experienced the sense of the sublime (in the Romantic sense) playing Journey for the first time two years ago, and I can point out exactly the moment when I felt overwhelmed, both awestruck and terrified: it was during the the golden sand slide. The sentiment began to be generated during the first part of the golden sands (7:58) and it became overwhelming during the second part, when you slide from right to left, with side view (music, gameplay and especially the gold color, were almost too much for my mind, it made me cry). Ever since I read Alan Moore's Promethea, I have a special relation with the color of gold, the sun and what it, sometimes, symbolizes (not Aton and capitalism; but elightment, transcendence and life). I used to be an acolyte of silver and moon, but Moore converted me to the cult of gold and sun, and Journey is that.

every media have art direction, and sure this one does.

so good!

This game looks like a mix between Little Misfortune, Genshin Impact, and Minecraft: Story Mode.

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Definitely gonna try this game soon. Btw Have you tried Abzu by Giant Squid? It is also a great example of games as art