I played Journey tonight!
I think it's pretty much the shortest game I've ever played (like an hour and a half long), but it was also really awesome.
I do have one really big main grievance about it, though, which is that it reveals your companion's gamertag at the end. I was completely ready to just go, "man, it's so depressing that I'll never know who that extremely bossy pal of mine
really was, we totally went through FEELINGS together at that mountain part!" and go on imagining what kind of superstar tag-team friendship we could have had, but then it totally tells you who they are, and then comes the friend request. I have a crippling phobia of my fellow human being and don't usually friend someone after playing a game with them for an hour and a half, but how the fuck was I supposed to refuse this guy after all the
FEELINGS we went through together, man?
After accepting I promptly shut my PS3 off. I'm afraid to turn it on again. Maybe I should have just declined and said "LET'S NOT RUIN THE MAGIC"
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That said, the finale for the mountain blizzard was extremely well-done. By the time both of our scarves had crumbled away, I was like, "yeah, I think we're dead," and then the two of you just sort of trudge forward out of grim desperation, your chirps growing weaker and weaker until eventually you can't do them at all, and then you both fall over dead. I was actually overjoyed during the segment after that when I saw my buddy's beacon blasting off in the distance and joyously raced to reunite with him. It's the kind of experience you should share anonymously with someone else, because having anyone know you had an emotional response makes you a big sissy faggot, and that's why I feel the game let me down by identifying me at the end. "Hey, look at this big faggot with all his girly feelings! Haw haw." |