Journey is art.

I know not a game that builds nearly the atmosphere that conveys Journey while playing. You start as a reminiscent of a Tuareg being who falls from the sky like shooting stars. The first movements in the game are deliberately. Man gets up, looks around, maybe takes a few steps and then you notice a huge mountain in the background, from its peak flows a beam of light.
No question on this mountain I want to go. This is my journey.
On the way I can find glyphs that fill the scarf that I wear with a kind of magic, flying me briefly and lets achieve previously unattainable so places. During the trip, you pass through different scenes; at the beginning of a desert landscape, later snow and ice.

Striking is the simple, but beautiful graphics. It's great, the footsteps in the sand behind watching, listening to the crunch underfoot. It's great to generate pressure waves in the snow using my sounds. The scenery in which you play is staggering. One must not highly detailed graphics expect the game lives by its simplicity. And the setting as it is, this supports outstanding.

Especially is this game not only for its graphics or the fact that there are no in-game map or chat window, but also by the co-operative mode mentioned. I played the game once alone through, it was a lonely journey, in which I have not discovered or solved all the puzzles. So I decided to play the game in multiplayer. And here comes the special: While playing you will be randomly matched with one (only one!) Players and you decide whether you want to deny the trip alone together or further.

So when I played for the first time in Coop, I met in the very first level a traveler, which was regarded by its white robe, that he has already solved all the puzzles. I did not know if that player is a man or woman was, old or young, how he / she looked or whatever religion he / she belonged. All I saw was a tschirpende, zurennende on me person who apparently was pleased to have a playing partner found. And that is what is at stake in this game. It's all about the games. Less a story that is told, but much more to the cooperation. To show that there may be cohesion and joy among people who have previously never met.

The player has the whole game with me over, showed me secret glyphs led me. We had so much fun together, as I have never experienced in a (Playstation) game. The game is not a game, it's a very special experience.

It touches me just to write this text because I tie only positive memories of the game.
If the game is out and the guy ran, one learns the PSN names of those who have been taken on his journey. I was completely surprised by the person who accompanied me just now to get a message. Stood in her that it was an honor for him to travel with me and he wished me all the best.
And these messages, the one after playing with special people or those with whom one has experienced special moments, gets, are hallmarks of this incredible experience of Reiser.

I love this game. I have no other choice. It's art.