March 2012
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One of my most vivid memories was of the cave with the flying snake machines, during my first playthrough. I’d been wandering around with the random person who’d popped into my game, but when the machines showed up and started “patrolling” with their spotlights, we got separated. I was moving as fast as I could, while trying to keep an eye out for glyphs or my companion. ...
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The biggest one I have so far is my first time through…me and my buddy [just the in game companion, not psn friend] were climbing the mountain…we were keeping next to each other to keep our scarfs from being negated fully. we were separated only once, i didn’t make a jump correctly because the wind was blowing and i was forced to take the lower path, but then i made my way back...
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I think that you haven’t known true teamwork until you and your companion fly together. I don’t mean just fly alongside each other, I mean really flying together. Jumping into the air and repeatedly chiming to each other to replenish scarf power, climbing ever higher.
The first time we managed to pull it off, I was happier than I had felt for all of the past playthroughs. We even...
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I tried, I did.
My first time climbing the mountain, I was with someone who had more symbols than me. I could tell that it was both our first times because neither of us understood at first that we had to hide behind the pillars to avoid the wind. By the time we struggled to the top we were stuck like glue.
After passing into the final stretch, I lost her for a while. I was so caught up with how gorgeous it...
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A Journey on a borrowed controller, but still...
I watched my friend play through her Journey a few days ago, so I knew what was coming. That doesn’t mean I was not moved by my session.
I began on my own, but I eventually ran into a stranger in white. They had gone up the mountain before, and they helped me through a great many challenges.
Whenever they led me to a glyph to lengthen my scarf, I would see their call and hurry to them.
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I’ll begin with a story of my own to start things up.
While traversing the chilly snowfield halfway through the game, I came across a friend with what looked like four staircases for an identification symbol. The hostility of the environment caused us to immediately bond together. Though we couldn’t talk to each other, the occasional chime in a call-response pattern was enough to keep us...
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Welcome
Welcome to Journey Stories, a Tumblr that aims to collect the tales of beauty, human experience and emotion provided to us by the video gameJourney.
Playing Journey was one of the most moving, beautiful, transcendent experiences any work of art has ever brought me. Not only was Journey visually captivating, but the social interaction with anonymous fellow players was unlike anything else I’ve...
