History VideoGame / Journey2012

* SilenceIsGolden: No spoken dialogue occurs ever occurs. It just isn't needed. The only words in the entire game are written the options menu, the title screen, and the ending credits while the only spoken words are part of the ending song "I was born for this", which is in multiple languages and hard to decipher or understand without knowing the lyrics and sources.

** [[spoiler:Eyes which fade as you freeze to death.]]

* SilenceIsGolden: No spoken dialogue occurs ever occurs. It just isn't needed. The only words in the entire game are written the options menu, the title screen, and the ending credits while the only spoken words are part of the ending song "I was born for this"]], which is in multiple languages and hard to decipher or understand without knowing the lyrics and sources.

* DropInDropOutMultiplayer: Sometimes you might not even realize that someone else is around until you see your screen glow because of their singing and it can be easy to leave another players game by accident.

* [[spoiler:LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair]]

* DesertPunk: More magic than Sci-fi but the ruins you come across make the setting feel like this sometimes, especially after [[spoiler: finding working War Machines and finding out this the deserted lands are of the AfterTheEnd varity.]]

* AdventureGame

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: [[spoiler:The first few times you complete the game, a section is added to the pattern on your cape]].

* DesertPunk

* DropInDropOutMultiplayer

* {{Minimalism}}

* NoAntagonist

* SilenceIsGolden: No spoken dialogue occurs. It just isn't needed.
* SpiritualSuccessor: Likely to the likes of ''VideoGame/{{Ico}}'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus''

* TheWanderingYou

-->C’est pour cela que je suis née

* [[spoiler:LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair]]: This game could almost be an adaptation of Shelley's poem.

-->C’est pour cela que je suis née[[note]] Lisbeth Scott, the vocalist, mispronounces Pour as 'por-ay' and que as 'kuh' instead of 'key'[[/note]]\\

-->C’est pour cela que je suis née\\

-->Kono michi ya, Yuku hito nashini[[note]]Lisbeth Scott, the vocalist, mispronounces it as 'nishini'[[/note]]\\

* [[spoiler:LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair]]

** The song titles on the [[http://soundcloud.com/awintory/sets/journey/ soundtrack]] coincide with steps in The Hero's Journey.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Likely to the likes of ''VideoGame/{{Ico}}'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowOftheColossus''

* ThePhoenix: [[spoiler: A possible interpretation of the characters. Considering the cycle of re-birth they undergo everytime you beat the game, not to mention their clothes are red with yellow designs.]]

* CompilationRerelease: The ''Journey Collector's Edition'', released August 28, 2012, includes ''Journey'', ''[=flOw=]'', and ''VideoGame/{{Flower}}'', as well as three unreleased mini-games, videos, commentaries, and other fun extras.
* CatharsisFactor: The makers of the game specifically said that they set themselves the challenge of crafting a game that was capable of generating catharsis.

* StopHelpingMe: An interesting example, in that it's not only perpetrated by other players but is almost certainly done without malice: the second chapter features a bridge which, if crossed without repairing it completely, will reward a trophy. Unfortunately some nice person will often see you 'struggling' and take pity on you by fixing the bridge section you obviously didn't see, undermining the whole endeavour.
** Of course, you can go offline and get the achievement by yourself if other players continue to rebuild the bridge.
** Some more experienced players, upon observing they've been paired with a less experienced player, can be a little forceful, not giving the new player a chance to be the one to "sing" to release flags, flying carpets and reveal glyphs, rushing straight to the "solutions" to the puzzles and the locations of items rather than taking the back seat and allowing the newer player to work at their own pace.

* SpiritualSucessor: Likely to the likes of ''VideoGame/{{Ico}}'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowOftheColossus''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The setting was originally a large canyon, where a glowing split in the rock could be seen in the far distance, as opposed to a split-peaked mountain. And the protagonist's early design resembled some type of samurai, as was shown in a few early teasers for the game. Also, the penultimate chapter was originally going to have you [[spoiler: being beaten to a pulp by the Guardians before finally dying. It was tossed on the grounds of being too over the top]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The setting was originally a large canyon, where a glowing split in the rock could be seen in the far distance, as opposed to a split-peaked mountain. And the protagonist's early design resembled some type of samurai, as was shown in a few early teasers for the game. Also, the ending was originally going to have you [[spoiler: being beaten to a pulp by the Guardians before finally dying. It was tossed on the grounds of being too over the top]].

''Journey'' is a video game for the PlayStation3 created by [[http://thatgamecompany.com/ thatgamecompany]], best known as the creators of ''[=flOw=]'' and ''VideoGame/{{Flower}}''. You play as a nameless robed figure who is crossing the desert to reach a mountain in the distance. As the game progresses, you will pass through several unique environments and ruins, uncovering more of the game's story as you go. It's something of an AdventureGame with light PlatformGame elements.

* WarIsHell: [[WorldOfSymbolism Played with]]. After a long and quite literal descent you're informed of [[spoiler:your ancestors' apocalyptic conflict]] by the gloomy and oppressive subterranean level, which also contains the first appearance of the [[spoiler:guardians]], the game's only source of NightmareFuel.