We reach the end of our Journey and it was beautiful! I really enjoyed the simplicity of this game and being able to share it with someone else along the way. To me, that was the best experience of this game, traveling along with someone else by my side! Let me know your interpretations on the games meaning!
I'm glad you enjoy games like these! Shadow of The Colossus Remastered is still game of the year for me! xD Its not about the destination...its about the journey! 🤭
It’s kind of a simple straight forward story about the journey. There’s no super complex subtext, but basically there was a natural source of energy that permitted the rise of a whole civilization, they used it as fuel for their cities, lights, machines. But as it ran out, they started fighting for it and waged war on each other until they completely destroyed each other. You’re the remnant of that civilization, journeying through its ruins and meeting one or the other of the few who are left. You’re not really fixing much, you’re mostly just learning the past and how your civilization died.
Marz Also at the end you’re supposed to be doing a sort of ascension. But it only happens if you found all those little light orbs and get your scarf as long as it gets before the run ends. Then when you go on new game plus, you can become one of those elder white cloaked figures instead of the red newbie one. And then it’s basically your turn to guide the red newbie ones like the white ones did w you. The path is already foretold because the elder white ones already went through it. I guess it’s kind of a rite of understanding what lead to the destruction of their civilization. Or rather than a rite, I guess you can call it a journey. :)
i can say that if my buddy fell of the bridge, i would not wait, i would jump back and do the way with him all over again to give hiim emotional support.
@@keanu1413 I was the one who fell, well not in this vid but yea, I was the idiot who fell :D and yep someone followed me, but not everyone thinks the same, :)
As I see it, Journey is a parallel to our life, our journey on this world. Maybe that mountain is our goal and the different landscapes and the emotions they emit are the different phases of our life. Desert: a disoriented infant that starts living its childhood and experiences exploration and joy. The Ocean - like level is one of growing up followed by the fear that life brings forth in the form of responsibility. The snowy mountains indicate the final stages of life, struggling to find meaning even up till the last moment (dying in the middle of a snowstorm while the light of the mountain is fading).The last part is the Apotheosis, the metaphysical state when you've just shed your body and you're starting to ascend up to a heaven - like place of spiritual rest until you're reborn in a different lifespan. The mountain is life and its ever glowing light the reason we always find to live on, to persevere. Meaningful simplicity. The interesting thing about this game is that choosing to take the whole journey with another is also a parallel to real life and a matter of character. It's like an inspired social expirement, in a way. Special game, this one.
Can you imagine how grateful the other player must have felt when they realized you waited for them when they fell off the bridge? How you met them again and helped them recover? It must have been a beautiful feeling for them.
I know I'm not the only one that feels a little bit of sadness not being able to say bye to the person at the end, you have no idea who they are or what they're like but for some reason you feel a connection to them and I think it's really cool seeing a game that can do that, makes you wonder what that person is doing today
It's just insane how well they nailed down the look for this game. This game could've been released yesterday and people would've be praising the visuals.
It happens sometimes that you become friends with another player for this one round and know you will never come back together ever again. You are having fun together, you become even a great team, but after that you both go your separate ways - where ever it might be. That is in its own dramatic way special.
I love how your bond with the person u played with grew so much. It went from "I'm sorry I'm neglecting you buddy" all the way to "I'm fucking damn well finishing this game with this person"
So glad you liked this game and even more that you were able to find a traveler to journey with you. - I think you got the story pretty good. A civilization misusing a power and destroying themselves. You basically are "born" and go on to learn about the history with fresh eyes, much like we as humans learn of our ancestors and their mistakes, we do what we can to make better choices and go on with our life, trying to reach that final goal whatever that might be, represented by the light in the mountain. I'm with you, I think we do end up dying when you fall frozen near the top of the mountain and reawaken in "heaven". Where everything is bright and beautiful and your scarf energy never runs out, haha. You go back to the life force which is eternal as noted by the last mural that after everyone died eventually the light came back. I think that's why you see your light float back to the beginning of the game and then are "reborn" to begin the journey anew. Thats what made the most sense to me at least. A very simplified view of the journey of life. You can even argue that your buddies are like the people you meet in life, some for a while, others till the end.
One of the most beautiful games and for sure one of the most uncommon. Not many of them can give you such a strong bond feeling with a random person, communicating with just using a simple gestures.
The end song in the credits is called "I Was Born For This" and is composed of 5 different quotes from famous pieces of literature, in their original languages. It makes me cry.
Starting on 4:52, the lateral view slide, that golden sand made me cry when I played it the first time. When my niece, 9, reached the same location, she screamed: "¡El color!" ("The color!"). She loved it. I loved it.
Catching up on your older content , Journey is 10 years old now, still amazing and looks beautiful still. I do believe it's all about life's journey, loved that you waited for your friend at the bridge, at the end of the game you are told how many friends you met along the way and their usernames.
The music in Journey slams me down to my knees, it's unbelievably good. And I love the ending, the moment you walk in the light at the summit, it feels so peaceful and yet mysterious. Like, you're just closing one chapter of your story and opening up another, maybe even in another life, but you step in anyway because that's what life is in the end. It's... the ever changing journey across emotions.
Still adore this game so many years later, super glad you got to fully experience it with a buddy and had a good experience! You couldn't stop smiling while interacting with your buddy! Hopefully we get more feel good games like this in the future!
Journey's not like other games. You don't fix the world. You don't defeat a great evil. The best you do for others is experience companionship and free a few trapped ribbon-creatures. The real transformation is within yourself. It is literally about the journey, and about gaining wisdom and understanding - perhaps in order to avoid the mistakes of your ancestors. "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot
Other than the obvious connection to The Hero's Journey monomyth, it tells another story. My take on that second story is this. When you start the game, the mountain shoots a wandering star, it falls in the desert, then you appear. Now, the desert is full of tombstones, and in one of the visions, we see this people buried beneath the sand. The light is life, or something similar to life. The life resurrected one of the dead persons beneath the sand, or maybe didn't resurrect it, but awake the spirit, and the mountain calls us. We, alive or dead, but sentient, hear the call and travel towards the mountain. When we fall in the snowstorm, as though we are dead, maybe we really died or maybe we were just giving up. Our ancients gave us more life, more light, symbolized by the scarf. The longer the scarf, the stronger our life-force. When we reach the top, we walk a long tunnels, one last step before the end. The exit opens to a bright white light, and when our eyes get used to the light, we see a tombstone, our tombstone. Maybe we died in the snow, maybe we were always dead, but this, to me, means that the desert was not our place to be, we had to be brought into light, a kind of paradise. And when we arrived there, we can rest, and we sent out light back into the desert, to bring another, that's why the ending takes us back to the opening, but this time, this new me that returns to life (or to sentience) will have more help: our own experience. We know the path, we know the dangers and how hard the path can be, that experience will make this new me's journey a little easier.
played this on ps3 in 2016. i don't 100% many games, but this one i did. i would play the game just so i could help others do the same and enjoy the game at its fullest. i learned from a other player how to go behind the enviroment, reach the tip top of the mountain and how to soar. by that i mean fly way higher than the game normally allows you to. its really fun. there is a youtube vid that shows you how to do just that.
I'm going to say my piece about this whole thing and it's just my opinion, but I think it's all about your experience during the journey itself and the camaraderie you share with other people even at the most perilous of times. The fact that the bond you make with your companion gives you power/energy (the scarf getting brighter when you're near each other) makes me believe that as you said it is a kind of a life energy and it gets stronger when living things are at peace and living with each other. And as for the civilization, I think they used the energy to build machines which actually caused everyone to grow apart and thus causing the fall of that society. The scene at the end also puts the emphasis on my first point as it sends you back to where you started and makes you look back at the path you traveled, but nonetheless, you enjoyed the journey as much as the ending and will always look back at it with a certain fondness. P.s. Love your videos
About the interpretation... I don't think the story matters as much as the companionship. The game for me developed much more by playing it again and again. Because knowing stuff changes the interaction. You meet more experienced players and eventually, you are one of those experienced players. The best is hidden behind a couple of play-throughs. ruclips.net/video/B0MibUZiwKY/видео.html
Marz, I am spiritist, my vision and interpretation and is shared by some, you are born alone, meet someone, acquire knowledge and the more you collect this knowledge the farther you go. it is a journey of life. In the end you die, you are received in paradise, you recover and start again in another life. Your journey is much better when accompanied by the person you love, you can in another life experience begin again with those who have lived with you. every day you accumulate more and more knowledge until the day you evolved enough to not need more of a physical body. Very good to see you playing, very good to give a brake on the adrenaline of other games and relax. Good morning to you !!!.
There's a video by "Game Score Fanfare" that beautifully explains the meanings a themes of the game through its music. Even the game composer commented on the video congratulating him for how well he understood it. Go check it out, it really enriches the experience.
Such a beautiful game. It almost brought tears to my eyes several times. I just beat it and like you, I wanted to find an interpretation of the ending. You were very lucky to play it with someone! I honestly didn't even know the game was possible to play with others.. In my experience In the end I saw a person ahead of me and I was just trying to catch up and then it ended. I would definitely play this again. Maybe there are things I missed or places I didn't see. Anyways, watching you beat the game too - finally brought a tear out just thinking about life and its beauty and endless ways of living it and sharing it with the person you love. It makes me want to play again with someone - and having that bonding experience. Thank you.
Awe such a sweet and beautiful video. You waiting for your buddy was the highlight and made the experience of watching it so much more beautiful than it already is!
I didn't play this game, but from what I gather some parts aren't really meant to be strongly interpreted. It's a passage of sorts, and you're just meant to feel the passage, which is very apt for a game named Journey.
Leave it to Marz to get stressed out playing Journey trying to ride those things, sometimes you just go with the beautiful flow the things decide what they want to do and give you power when your near and sometimes give you a little boost.
I recommended this before but if you get a chance, play ABZU. It is very much like this game but it takes place in the ocean and in my opinion, it is more visually impressive. Although other players aren't able to partner with you in the game, it still does a great job educating you on the various types of marine life from the past to the present.
This game is beautiful in every way. For me it is the cycle of life, death and rebirth. But in the end, the true meaning lies in those who walked with us on this journey. No one has to face everything alone.
Worldbuilding aside, I don't imagine this game was made with any intended message or subtext. Your interpretation is just as valid as anyone else's, and is bound to be different from one playthrough to the next. One thing I think is solidly in place, however, is that, despite the fact you're constantly fixed on the goal of top of that mountain, the game isn't about the destination. It's about the Journey.
Just stumbled upon your channel and wanted to say I really enjoyed this playthrough. We have very similar playing styles. I also think Journey might be the most beautiful game ever made. I mean, there's obviously no way to know that but I've never played, or seen, a game more beautiful than this one. And it's not just the visuals. The musical score, the minimalist way you communicate with other players and the symbolic narrative give it a really unique atmosphere. As far as my interpretation goes, I think it was supposed to symbolize a spiritual journey, similar to those in the Hindu and Buddhism religions. In those they believe you live many lives, reincarnating over and over again, until you eventually become enlightened. I think the final level with the waterfalls was supposed to symbolize enlightenment, or a higher state of being, where you've reached the end of your spiritual growth. The top of the mountain being the end of your physical life. In these religions it is believed that once you become enlightened you are then able to decide whether or not to reincarnate. This could be seen as the mountain shooting you back to the beginning if you so choose to play the game again.
The End represents a never ending cycle, or an infinite cycle loop if you may, more and more civilizations having the same conflict, wars to obtain something, unconformity, being thirsty for more power and naturally ignoring your surroundings in the process
I don't know why but to me it was like you start life alone then you meet people along the way. Depending on how you finish the game it ends your own life cycle with someone or alone. Regardless you pass on the baton and a new being takes your place one the cycle of life. The loneliness of traveling alone and the joys of finding someone in the vast world. To the hardships you endure with or with out a partner in the game. Is a abstract interpretation of life. IDK that's what I got.
My first play through, I thought the other characters where NPCs. It was still beautiful and I ended up entering the light at the end with an “NPC” at my side. Then in the credits, when it said “these are the people you journeyed with” it absolutely hit me emotionally as a surprise that this whole time I had been sharing the experience with strangers across the globe. Absolutely amazing game. The soundtrack is perfect also.
I think the main theme in this game is reincarnation and karma. The way the ending of the game loops back to where you started kind of suggests that. You play as a lesser being, a reincarnation suffering an ordeal over and over again, to atone for the past and perhaps undo the damage has been done. The White Cloaks enslaved the tapestries to power their buildings and weapons; you free them from their cages. The White Cloaks split up and opposed each other; you work with a friend. There is also an option when you 100% the game to become a smaller White Cloak (which can regenerate its scarf IIRC), implying a sort of ascension into a higher form like a demigod.
3:05 that's funny because I was about to write how much more emotional the game ending can be if you meet some one on your way up... from that point you need that presence next to you, it's crazy actually how you can develop such a strong connexion with some one without even talking. XD I think i's an wonderful allegory to the cycle of life.
If you still have the recording, the game shows you who you played with (their PSN ID), and the symbol they were assigned. In this vid its was skipped (which is fine). It happens at the end when the star lands back at the beginning, before the new sunrise.
awesome marz. you just experienced a masterpiece. I think it's just a symbol of life. also rise and fall of civilization and love getting us through together in the hardest of times. great great game
Im doing abit of backlog watching on old vids i aint seen of yours. I love so much how your trying to explain this ending. Your trying so hard lol loved it such a great game and with your geniune emotions that come out while playing makes it a great watch x
This was a wonderful playthrough, and I absolutely loved your final interpretation. I sincerely hope you were able to play through again because I think the ongoing message is helping others to receive this message
'Journey' is an AMAZING game! The visuals, the soundtracks, the story behind it as you explore. 'Journey' is the reason I started to love indie games. For me, 'Journey' and 'Ori and the Blind Forest' are the best indie games ever made. I know it is not on PS4, but i would love to see Ori on your channel, I'd bet you won't regret it. It has such a charming story which you will never forget, plus get tears in your eyes every time you hear its soundtrack. It is quite hard tho, but you also play 'Bloodborne', so... :)
I subbed after watching this and I thought I might throw in my $0.02 on the ending. I do know that the creators and the composer (Austin Wintory, whom you can find on Twitter and here on RUclips) wanted an ambiguous culture without directly referencing any particular one in real life, even carrying out this concept in the music. Austin has an hour video with text commentary about the making music for the game, while giving kudos to people who created artwork inspired by the game. Definitely check out the lyrics to "I Was Born For This" which are sang in more than one language from different time periods. My favorite is when the song quotes Joan of Arc: "C’est pour cela que je suis née." This quote is where the song gets it's name, obviously translated into English. Marz, I do like your interpretation that "it has been foretold" with the mural before the snow-capped mountain level. It does fit the interpretation I've read that it's not just your personal journey, but the journey you share between others (your buddy in the game) and also civilization's journey. I never heard this theory before and it adds to the game that maybe the ancients were waiting for someone like you. I also like the little guy you play looks at the ancients as giants robed in white while they did some bad stuff, worse than anything you could do in the game. I also like that you picked up on the hint that maybe we actually died on the mountain, simply because I also came to that conclusion, albeit after multiple playthroughs. I came to the conclusion after I finally noticed the star that flies to the beginning actually comes from your grave placed just before the mountain summit. I'm sorry for the long post, but I'm not sorry because I can talk about this game for hours. Journey is dope because it's a work of art that can't be explained until you experience it. I've experienced it several times and I'm still finding new stuff. Thanks for sharing this video.
Thank you, my friend, for posting Austin's commented soundtrack video. I should have done that in my video and always glad for other fans who make up for my obvious shortcomings!
I love that you got some relaxation and joy through this game. It really is a masterwork, so much beauty in the music and visuals. Great job Marz. Hope to see you play unraveled 2 with your loved one, another wonderful story.
It was lovely to watch you play this beautiful game. The honest and sincere emotion of your reactions was so touching. Frankly, I don't think it really matters what the game actually "means." I believe the point of it is how it makes you feel. And it sounds to me like you got that point perfectly.
Sand represents 'time'. Winter represents 'death'. The golden sands at the beginning represents our youth. This is followed by adolescence, the red sands. This leads us to our working years and the toil and grime of machinery. We still get time to play but as we grow nearer 'winter' (our inevitable end), we still fight on, pulled forward by the same light that lead us when we were younger. The ending can be interpreted many ways although the main theme is 'rebirth'. Whether that rebirth is your own or heredity is the question that interests me the most but I believe it's rebirth in the sense of 'passing on your genes or wisdom'. On the very first sand dune we climb, you see two of those strange pillars with what appear to be scarfs blowing in the wind. To the left of these is a tiny version. I think that's a mother and father with their child. That's why I think it's about passing on genes or wisdom.
I'm unpopular ... :( I didn't point it out there but there's one other piece of symbolism that suggests rebirth in the sense I've described. I'm not going to be specific. I'll just give you a hint and see if you see it too. Once you enter the very last gate, ask yourself, what does that glowing white figure with the long scarf resemble? And also take a look at the mountain and ask yourself, is this deliberate?
Just like Inside this is very much a mood piece. Something that's more supposed to speak to the subconscious, rather than something you're supposed to really understand. Games like Shadow of the Colossus and Bloodborne are similar in that way.
This was such a beautifull game. The whole Journey was fantastic and mesmerizing. But I think the most beautifull thing here was the loyalty you had for your buddy. waiting for him, instead of going for yourself, was very touching, especially when your buddy was coming closer. Love this game, and as allways, Love your channel. Lol at Luca for ruining the ending!
Beautiful game, no doubt about it. The music is just so overwhelmingly good, the aesthetic and art style fits it perfectly and the journey is even more special when there is someone else to share the experiences with. In my eyes, the simplicity of the game, resembles the simplicity of life itself and how the only thing we should care about is the experience and who we experience it with. Just my two cents. First comment of mine in like foreeeever. lol
Hey Sam! I agree with what you said so I'm gonna piggyback off your comment lol. Tbh, I think the story details don't really matter because I don't think the game is really about that. They're there to give a bit of context to the world, but that's really it. I think it's a spiritual journey of sorts with no right or wrong way of going about it. The destination isn't important, the journey is. I love that she decided to stay behind and wait after her buddy fell off the bridge. The wordless bond they formed in such a short time meant more to her than seeing what was at the top of the mountain and to me, that was pretty special. So few games can pull this off successfully. Team Ico games come to mind as ones that also do bonding well. So anyway, yeah I'd call this less of a game and more of an experience that you can choose to have with another player, all wrapped in a beautiful looking and sounding package. Also, I'll try to comment more as well in the future haha.
@@blaketh6744 Hey bro! I agree 100% with every single letter and word you wrote there. ;) The story overall is there to give context, like you said, but the most important element about it is the experience or "Journey" and not its destination, the past nor the future. And yeah, Marz waiting for her buddy when he/she fell off the bridge was the sweetest thing. I think I would have dropped myself to be honest. lol and like you said bonding in video games is not easily achievable and this one mastered it fully. Go and make your own comment now, and stop cheating lol
So glad you liked this game, it's amazing how powerful a games narrative can be without any spoken dialogue. If you like this game you should check out a game called Abzu made by the same developers and is very similar to Journey
i think that all opinion on the story can be right, there isnt a "only" explanation for course. however, i am a guy who likes "happy endings" and i like to belive that the strugle of the main character always have a meaning, so, this is "my" story for journey: first, there was "light" light is whatever you want to call it, mother nature, god, creatin, life... what you need to understand is that light is the source of everything, and light created itself, and created all life in this planet. one of light's creations, are the scarfpeople, they were the most inteligent and enligthed of light creatins, and in the start, they lived in peace with the nature that light made. however, as time progressed, scarfkind wanted to have more, they wanted to increase their life quality (much like human kind) and therefore, the started using scarfnature for theyr own gain, draining its life power to create energy, however, the more they did that, the more they set themselfs apart from "light" and the more the world around them was destroyed, to a point, that light stop supporting the scarfkind, for this, they started figthing for the little that they still have left, killing each other to get them, trying to get as much resources as possible. in the end, as the world was nearly destroyed, a few scarf survivors, decided to try to save the world, they started freeing the scarf creatures, so that the scarf creatures could go back to "light" and them themselfs, started traveling towards "light" in order to reunite with it. however, the path was full of dangers and pain, and many times, along the way, they would just die trying to reach "light" either because of the metal monsters, or because of the cold or any other danger. so, the only way of surviving the travel, as to have a scarf so big, that you would not die, and what is the scarf? spiritual enlightment! so, when they traveled, they would die along the way, and than, light, merciful as it is, would take their spirits, bring their spirits back to itself, and send them back to the world to try again. and each time the scarf people reincarnated, they were more spiritualy enligthed, to the point, that some managed to survive all the way, and reach the "light" with their physical boddied, those who achieve that, become the "whitescarfs" those who managed to reach the light wighout dying along the way. and our character, is one who almoust managed to become a whitescarf, we and out friend were almoust there, so, probably, in the next reencarnation, as we save more creatures and colect more spiritual enligthment, we will finaly reach the ligh wighout dying, and we wont have to reincarnate anymore, because we aready reach the pic, and we can become "one" with the light. and as the time goes on, "light" will bring back all life of the world to itself (as we see the creatures going towards light in the end of the game) and when it have all life with itself, together, as one, when all become one, than it will divide itself again, and bring life to the world once more, to see if this time, the scarfpeople will do it right, and wont let their greed blind them, so that they can have a good life in the material world.
Each scarf and twitter has a unique pattern for each player so you can identify them while playing or at the end. Were you tempted to PS message the playthrough link to your companions that come up at the end?
That's weird, when I finished Journey on PS3 there was a list before the end credits of the players I'd met during the game. It absolutely blew my mind as I knew nothing about the game beforehand and had no idea I was even playing online with other real people, I thought they were just AI characters! I wonder why they took that out? Maybe to stop breaking the 4th wall.
I played this on PS4 too when that version first came out, and they definitely still gave me a list. I think Marz cut it out (which made me sad, I was curious to see the name of her buddy!)
my interpretation ,,the symbols are "spirits" or the essence of them .. those that came before you.. the game also generates a unique one for you and the second journey player
Hey ! One of the most beautiful experience I had to play. Music is also for many! Marz, you have to try "Abzu" in the same vein ^^ Regards de France ^^
Your 1st interpretation was pretty spot on but some more insight may be appreciated. As u said, the white cloaks started out life the same as everything else. The stars, birds, nature, and the red ribbons all coming into being around the mountain which has always been. But after discovering the red ribbon can be harnessed as energy, they soon advanced to living practically as gods high above the ground. That is until the red ribbons could no longer sustain that way of life and the white cloaks became overcome with greed and more lust for power to the point they warred with each other over control of the red ribbons. As for the ending, notice the beginning scene of a new journey begins with a star falling towards the starting point. Then recall the ending/credits. All in all, the actual experience you play as yourself is simply just that... Your journey.
I was wondering who your companion(s) were. As the names of those you shared your ‘journey’ with appear after when the end credits have finished. This game is open to interpretation. During the game at various stages as you approach the mountain, you see a meteor, or life force drift away from the mountain. Some people see this game as a metaphor of life itself. Birth, discovery of our cultures and history . Meeting a partner to share the journey with. Trials and tribulations of life. Death and possible rebirth?
So glad you played this! About the interpretation, I suggest you check out this analysis by Game Score Fanfare of the music score of the game since the score portrays the meaning really well. Don't worry, is not too nerdy on the music theory side and is really, really interesting: ruclips.net/video/KeKnkaB0MBE/видео.html And about the bond... well, I don't wanna spoil anything but I just wanted to say that the other game that made me feel that kind of connection with people I don't know nothing about since Journey is actually Nier Automata. I know you're playing it so you'll see why sooner or later °¿^
My experience in this game was horrible because I was alone and the most part that annoyed me when that monster was chasing me in the dark alone. Your experience sticking with somebody have changed the whole journey and every decision you have made meant something hiding running jumping in the right time you chose, when you decide to move from spot to spot you decide doing it fast or slow or jumping or maybe being carful of losing your buddy or you scarf. When I played alone i had no one to refill my scarf to be able to fly so i was always finding another way and it wasn't easy sometimes but your journey having someone that could just stay close to each-other to warm you meant a lot. I don't want you to experience the game alone that's why i am telling you it wasn't something i want to experience again.
I have to disagree with that, Creative. Personally, I believe all first time Journeyers should play alone. Only in this way can you freely explore the game without being hindered or rushed through. Once the first play is done, then travelling with a companion is more fun as you get to learn new game mechanics, such as chirping and touching for charge-ups. Following games, try learning some fancy flying and game glitching. Eight years after release, and loyal players are still finding new things to see and do in this incredible Journey game.
Finally! I love this game and its simplicity, it is so relaxing to play! Marz, I have some game recommendations for you, do you know the Uncharted games and Beyond two souls? I think you'll like them, they're great games and I would love to see on your channel, kisses
Yup, sadly I've already played the latest Uncharted game, it was great! Beyond Two Souls though has been on my list of must plays! I've been looking forward to playing it, just narrowing down which ones next slowly :D
Hey Marz I love your channel and your videos so much!!! 😊😊😊 But I just had a quick question do you think that you’ll ever play Nintendo games on this channel?? because I would love to see you play The Legend of Zelda Breathe of The Wild or even Super Mario Odyssey. Love your channel and keep up the great work ❤️❤️❤️👍👍😊😊
We reach the end of our Journey and it was beautiful! I really enjoyed the simplicity of this game and being able to share it with someone else along the way. To me, that was the best experience of this game, traveling along with someone else by my side!
Let me know your interpretations on the games meaning!
Marz.
I'm glad you enjoy games like these! Shadow of The Colossus Remastered is still game of the year for me! xD Its not about the destination...its about the journey! 🤭
It’s a simple game about the journey that we take through life at least that’s what I got from it
It’s kind of a simple straight forward story about the journey. There’s no super complex subtext, but basically there was a natural source of energy that permitted the rise of a whole civilization, they used it as fuel for their cities, lights, machines. But as it ran out, they started fighting for it and waged war on each other until they completely destroyed each other. You’re the remnant of that civilization, journeying through its ruins and meeting one or the other of the few who are left. You’re not really fixing much, you’re mostly just learning the past and how your civilization died.
Marz Also at the end you’re supposed to be doing a sort of ascension. But it only happens if you found all those little light orbs and get your scarf as long as it gets before the run ends. Then when you go on new game plus, you can become one of those elder white cloaked figures instead of the red newbie one. And then it’s basically your turn to guide the red newbie ones like the white ones did w you. The path is already foretold because the elder white ones already went through it. I guess it’s kind of a rite of understanding what lead to the destruction of their civilization. Or rather than a rite, I guess you can call it a journey. :)
You can tell a lot about a person by how long they wait if their buddy falls off the bridge.
i can say that if my buddy fell of the bridge, i would not wait, i would jump back and do the way with him all over again to give hiim emotional support.
@@joaosoares-rr5mj Yep, been there, done that! lol
joão soares did the same bro
@@keanu1413 I was the one who fell, well not in this vid but yea, I was the idiot who fell :D and yep someone followed me, but not everyone thinks the same, :)
In my case, I threw myself off the bridge when that happened.
I've done 20 journeys by now and that happened once but that's what I decided to do
As I see it, Journey is a parallel to our life, our journey on this world. Maybe that mountain is our goal and the different landscapes and the emotions they emit are the different phases of our life. Desert: a disoriented infant that starts living its childhood and experiences exploration and joy. The Ocean - like level is one of growing up followed by the fear that life brings forth in the form of responsibility. The snowy mountains indicate the final stages of life, struggling to find meaning even up till the last moment (dying in the middle of a snowstorm while the light of the mountain is fading).The last part is the Apotheosis, the metaphysical state when you've just shed your body and you're starting to ascend up to a heaven - like place of spiritual rest until you're reborn in a different lifespan. The mountain is life and its ever glowing light the reason we always find to live on, to persevere. Meaningful simplicity. The interesting thing about this game is that choosing to take the whole journey with another is also a parallel to real life and a matter of character. It's like an inspired social expirement, in a way. Special game, this one.
Wow, I really like this interpretation. Very beautiful!!!
Now I need to play this again...
@@Marzz No one stops you :P . But please do complete Bloodborne first. That game is a league of its own.
There's a reason this was "Game of the Year" in 2012
Can you imagine how grateful the other player must have felt when they realized you waited for them when they fell off the bridge? How you met them again and helped them recover? It must have been a beautiful feeling for them.
I know I'm not the only one that feels a little bit of sadness not being able to say bye to the person at the end, you have no idea who they are or what they're like but for some reason you feel a connection to them and I think it's really cool seeing a game that can do that, makes you wonder what that person is doing today
at the very end you can see the nametag of all persons you met. And then you can say gppdbye or hello :)
That's why people often draw hearts in the snow for each other in the end.
It's just insane how well they nailed down the look for this game. This game could've been released yesterday and people would've be praising the visuals.
It happens sometimes that you become friends with another player for this one round and know you will never come back together ever again. You are having fun together, you become even a great team, but after that you both go your separate ways - where ever it might be. That is in its own dramatic way special.
This game is so beautiful. I played through it like 10 times. It's one big metaphor for life's "journey".
I love how your bond with the person u played with grew so much. It went from "I'm sorry I'm neglecting you buddy" all the way to "I'm fucking damn well finishing this game with this person"
So glad you liked this game and even more that you were able to find a traveler to journey with you. - I think you got the story pretty good. A civilization misusing a power and destroying themselves. You basically are "born" and go on to learn about the history with fresh eyes, much like we as humans learn of our ancestors and their mistakes, we do what we can to make better choices and go on with our life, trying to reach that final goal whatever that might be, represented by the light in the mountain.
I'm with you, I think we do end up dying when you fall frozen near the top of the mountain and reawaken in "heaven". Where everything is bright and beautiful and your scarf energy never runs out, haha. You go back to the life force which is eternal as noted by the last mural that after everyone died eventually the light came back. I think that's why you see your light float back to the beginning of the game and then are "reborn" to begin the journey anew.
Thats what made the most sense to me at least. A very simplified view of the journey of life. You can even argue that your buddies are like the people you meet in life, some for a while, others till the end.
One of the most beautiful games and for sure one of the most uncommon. Not many of them can give you such a strong bond feeling with a random person, communicating with just using a simple gestures.
"I wish i totally understand what just happened" - Marz
That's the journey of life.
rolling up to this video 2 years late, but like when you waited for your buddy to get back after they fell of the bridge i CRIED
The end song in the credits is called "I Was Born For This" and is composed of 5 different quotes from famous pieces of literature, in their original languages. It makes me cry.
Starting on 4:52, the lateral view slide, that golden sand made me cry when I played it the first time. When my niece, 9, reached the same location, she screamed: "¡El color!" ("The color!"). She loved it. I loved it.
Catching up on your older content , Journey is 10 years old now, still amazing and looks beautiful still. I do believe it's all about life's journey, loved that you waited for your friend at the bridge, at the end of the game you are told how many friends you met along the way and their usernames.
The music in Journey slams me down to my knees, it's unbelievably good. And I love the ending, the moment you walk in the light at the summit, it feels so peaceful and yet mysterious. Like, you're just closing one chapter of your story and opening up another, maybe even in another life, but you step in anyway because that's what life is in the end. It's... the ever changing journey across emotions.
It’s about life , where it start and where it has end . Importantly you have someone to be part of your life
Still adore this game so many years later, super glad you got to fully experience it with a buddy and had a good experience! You couldn't stop smiling while interacting with your buddy! Hopefully we get more feel good games like this in the future!
I don't know about you guys but I got a bit emotional when the other player reached Marz after falling off the bridge.
I can't believe you waited! Love this game. :)
Journey's not like other games. You don't fix the world. You don't defeat a great evil. The best you do for others is experience companionship and free a few trapped ribbon-creatures. The real transformation is within yourself. It is literally about the journey, and about gaining wisdom and understanding - perhaps in order to avoid the mistakes of your ancestors.
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
- T.S. Eliot
Other than the obvious connection to The Hero's Journey monomyth, it tells another story. My take on that second story is this.
When you start the game, the mountain shoots a wandering star, it falls in the desert, then you appear. Now, the desert is full of tombstones, and in one of the visions, we see this people buried beneath the sand. The light is life, or something similar to life. The life resurrected one of the dead persons beneath the sand, or maybe didn't resurrect it, but awake the spirit, and the mountain calls us. We, alive or dead, but sentient, hear the call and travel towards the mountain.
When we fall in the snowstorm, as though we are dead, maybe we really died or maybe we were just giving up. Our ancients gave us more life, more light, symbolized by the scarf. The longer the scarf, the stronger our life-force.
When we reach the top, we walk a long tunnels, one last step before the end. The exit opens to a bright white light, and when our eyes get used to the light, we see a tombstone, our tombstone. Maybe we died in the snow, maybe we were always dead, but this, to me, means that the desert was not our place to be, we had to be brought into light, a kind of paradise. And when we arrived there, we can rest, and we sent out light back into the desert, to bring another, that's why the ending takes us back to the opening, but this time, this new me that returns to life (or to sentience) will have more help: our own experience. We know the path, we know the dangers and how hard the path can be, that experience will make this new me's journey a little easier.
played this on ps3 in 2016. i don't 100% many games, but this one i did. i would play the game just so i could help others do the same and
enjoy the game at its fullest. i learned from a other player how to go behind the enviroment, reach the tip top of the mountain and how to soar. by that i mean fly
way higher than the game normally allows you to. its really fun. there is a youtube vid that shows you how to do just that.
I'm going to say my piece about this whole thing and it's just my opinion, but I think it's all about your experience during the journey itself and the camaraderie you share with other people even at the most perilous of times. The fact that the bond you make with your companion gives you power/energy (the scarf getting brighter when you're near each other) makes me believe that as you said it is a kind of a life energy and it gets stronger when living things are at peace and living with each other. And as for the civilization, I think they used the energy to build machines which actually caused everyone to grow apart and thus causing the fall of that society. The scene at the end also puts the emphasis on my first point as it sends you back to where you started and makes you look back at the path you traveled, but nonetheless, you enjoyed the journey as much as the ending and will always look back at it with a certain fondness.
P.s. Love your videos
About the interpretation... I don't think the story matters as much as the companionship. The game for me developed much more by playing it again and again. Because knowing stuff changes the interaction. You meet more experienced players and eventually, you are one of those experienced players. The best is hidden behind a couple of play-throughs.
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Marz, I am spiritist, my vision and interpretation and is shared by some, you are born alone, meet someone, acquire knowledge and the more you collect this knowledge the farther you go. it is a journey of life. In the end you die, you are received in paradise, you recover and start again in another life. Your journey is much better when accompanied by the person you love, you can in another life experience begin again with those who have lived with you. every day you accumulate more and more knowledge until the day you evolved enough to not need more of a physical body. Very good to see you playing, very good to give a brake on the adrenaline of other games and relax. Good morning to you !!!.
There's a video by "Game Score Fanfare" that beautifully explains the meanings a themes of the game through its music. Even the game composer commented on the video congratulating him for how well he understood it. Go check it out, it really enriches the experience.
ruclips.net/video/KeKnkaB0MBE/видео.html thanks for recommending that!
I just recommend the same above. It's a great video.
I really want to recommend this video ut i haven't watched it yet
Marz gaming is always an amazing Journey let it continue for decades and decades
Such a beautiful game. It almost brought tears to my eyes several times. I just beat it and like you, I wanted to find an interpretation of the ending. You were very lucky to play it with someone! I honestly didn't even know the game was possible to play with others.. In my experience In the end I saw a person ahead of me and I was just trying to catch up and then it ended. I would definitely play this again. Maybe there are things I missed or places I didn't see.
Anyways, watching you beat the game too - finally brought a tear out just thinking about life and its beauty and endless ways of living it and sharing it with the person you love. It makes me want to play again with someone - and having that bonding experience. Thank you.
Also you are beautiful too! I not only in your eyes and face but I liked watching you think and talk about the game.
I hope you continue to play smaller games like this to balance out the big budget action games.
Awe such a sweet and beautiful video. You waiting for your buddy was the highlight and made the experience of watching it so much more beautiful than it already is!
I didn't play this game, but from what I gather some parts aren't really meant to be strongly interpreted. It's a passage of sorts, and you're just meant to feel the passage, which is very apt for a game named Journey.
Leave it to Marz to get stressed out playing Journey trying to ride those things, sometimes you just go with the beautiful flow the things decide what they want to do and give you power when your near and sometimes give you a little boost.
44:54 "We started the Journey (tm) this episode withthis person, and I'm going to finish it with this person."
I recommended this before but if you get a chance, play ABZU. It is very much like this game but it takes place in the ocean and in my opinion, it is more visually impressive. Although other players aren't able to partner with you in the game, it still does a great job educating you on the various types of marine life from the past to the present.
I loved Journey, but I found ABZU to be lackluster.
Play Rime too, stunning games
This game is beautiful in every way. For me it is the cycle of life, death and rebirth. But in the end, the true meaning lies in those who walked with us on this journey. No one has to face everything alone.
Worldbuilding aside, I don't imagine this game was made with any intended message or subtext. Your interpretation is just as valid as anyone else's, and is bound to be different from one playthrough to the next. One thing I think is solidly in place, however, is that, despite the fact you're constantly fixed on the goal of top of that mountain, the game isn't about the destination.
It's about the Journey.
This kind of game brings out the best in the human race.
Most gamers I know wouldn’t wait for me. Except for here.
It's not about the destination, it's about the Journey
Just stumbled upon your channel and wanted to say I really enjoyed this playthrough. We have very similar playing styles.
I also think Journey might be the most beautiful game ever made. I mean, there's obviously no way to know that but I've never played, or seen, a game more beautiful than this one. And it's not just the visuals. The musical score, the minimalist way you communicate with other players and the symbolic narrative give it a really unique atmosphere.
As far as my interpretation goes, I think it was supposed to symbolize a spiritual journey, similar to those in the Hindu and Buddhism religions. In those they believe you live many lives, reincarnating over and over again, until you eventually become enlightened. I think the final level with the waterfalls was supposed to symbolize enlightenment, or a higher state of being, where you've reached the end of your spiritual growth. The top of the mountain being the end of your physical life. In these religions it is believed that once you become enlightened you are then able to decide whether or not to reincarnate. This could be seen as the mountain shooting you back to the beginning if you so choose to play the game again.
Luka at the end of the game.....priceless hahaha
The End represents a never ending cycle, or an infinite cycle loop if you may, more and more civilizations having the same conflict, wars to obtain something, unconformity, being thirsty for more power and naturally ignoring your surroundings in the process
I don't know why but to me it was like you start life alone then you meet people along the way. Depending on how you finish the game it ends your own life cycle with someone or alone. Regardless you pass on the baton and a new being takes your place one the cycle of life. The loneliness of traveling alone and the joys of finding someone in the vast world. To the hardships you endure with or with out a partner in the game. Is a abstract interpretation of life. IDK that's what I got.
36:35 Rubbing it in your face how long his scarf is compared to yours by wrapping it around the tombstone lol
man companions are so nice in this game they help me out and wait for me at the end i added everyone and they were 4 people i met in my Journey
You didn't skip seeing the people you played with, did you?
Thats what im trying to figure out.
Dafuq😂 that defeats one of the pillars of the games message
My first play through, I thought the other characters where NPCs. It was still beautiful and I ended up entering the light at the end with an “NPC” at my side. Then in the credits, when it said “these are the people you journeyed with” it absolutely hit me emotionally as a surprise that this whole time I had been sharing the experience with strangers across the globe. Absolutely amazing game. The soundtrack is perfect also.
I think the main theme in this game is reincarnation and karma. The way the ending of the game loops back to where you started kind of suggests that.
You play as a lesser being, a reincarnation suffering an ordeal over and over again, to atone for the past and perhaps undo the damage has been done. The White Cloaks enslaved the tapestries to power their buildings and weapons; you free them from their cages. The White Cloaks split up and opposed each other; you work with a friend. There is also an option when you 100% the game to become a smaller White Cloak (which can regenerate its scarf IIRC), implying a sort of ascension into a higher form like a demigod.
I think the person you met probably hasn't played the game yet too. it's cool that there would still be new players considering the game's age.
Thanks for waiting for your friend. I bet it meant alot to him/her 😊
3:05 that's funny because I was about to write how much more emotional the game ending can be if you meet some one on your way up... from that point you need that presence next to you, it's crazy actually how you can develop such a strong connexion with some one without even talking. XD
I think i's an wonderful allegory to the cycle of life.
If you still have the recording, the game shows you who you played with (their PSN ID), and the symbol they were assigned.
In this vid its was skipped (which is fine). It happens at the end when the star lands back at the beginning, before the new sunrise.
awesome marz. you just experienced a masterpiece. I think it's just a symbol of life. also rise and fall of civilization and love getting us through together in the hardest of times. great great game
Im doing abit of backlog watching on old vids i aint seen of yours. I love so much how your trying to explain this ending. Your trying so hard lol loved it such a great game and with your geniune emotions that come out while playing makes it a great watch x
This was a wonderful playthrough, and I absolutely loved your final interpretation. I sincerely hope you were able to play through again because I think the ongoing message is helping others to receive this message
The other player might've found some stuff to extend your scarf but ur waiting for him while he's calling lol
'Journey' is an AMAZING game! The visuals, the soundtracks, the story behind it as you explore. 'Journey' is the reason I started to love indie games. For me, 'Journey' and 'Ori and the Blind Forest' are the best indie games ever made. I know it is not on PS4, but i would love to see Ori on your channel, I'd bet you won't regret it. It has such a charming story which you will never forget, plus get tears in your eyes every time you hear its soundtrack.
It is quite hard tho, but you also play 'Bloodborne', so... :)
I subbed after watching this and I thought I might throw in my $0.02 on the ending. I do know that the creators and the composer (Austin Wintory, whom you can find on Twitter and here on RUclips) wanted an ambiguous culture without directly referencing any particular one in real life, even carrying out this concept in the music. Austin has an hour video with text commentary about the making music for the game, while giving kudos to people who created artwork inspired by the game. Definitely check out the lyrics to "I Was Born For This" which are sang in more than one language from different time periods. My favorite is when the song quotes Joan of Arc: "C’est pour cela que je suis née." This quote is where the song gets it's name, obviously translated into English.
Marz, I do like your interpretation that "it has been foretold" with the mural before the snow-capped mountain level. It does fit the interpretation I've read that it's not just your personal journey, but the journey you share between others (your buddy in the game) and also civilization's journey. I never heard this theory before and it adds to the game that maybe the ancients were waiting for someone like you. I also like the little guy you play looks at the ancients as giants robed in white while they did some bad stuff, worse than anything you could do in the game. I also like that you picked up on the hint that maybe we actually died on the mountain, simply because I also came to that conclusion, albeit after multiple playthroughs. I came to the conclusion after I finally noticed the star that flies to the beginning actually comes from your grave placed just before the mountain summit.
I'm sorry for the long post, but I'm not sorry because I can talk about this game for hours. Journey is dope because it's a work of art that can't be explained until you experience it. I've experienced it several times and I'm still finding new stuff. Thanks for sharing this video.
ruclips.net/video/qGcXI_BaR2Y/видео.html Austin's commented soundtrack video
Thank you, my friend, for posting Austin's commented soundtrack video. I should have done that in my video and always glad for other fans who make up for my obvious shortcomings!
Awesome resource. The video presented for "I Was Born For This" was definitely beautiful.
Man, even just watching this, the way the music comes in at @1:05:36 fucking always gives me chills and actually makes me tear up a little... : '-)
I love that you got some relaxation and joy through this game. It really is a masterwork, so much beauty in the music and visuals. Great job Marz. Hope to see you play unraveled 2 with your loved one, another wonderful story.
What i think is that its not the end that matters,but the Journey :)
That feeling when you lost your unknown Partner... It's really sad!! Good you wait for him or her💕
It was lovely to watch you play this beautiful game. The honest and sincere emotion of your reactions was so touching.
Frankly, I don't think it really matters what the game actually "means." I believe the point of it is how it makes you feel. And it sounds to me like you got that point perfectly.
Sand represents 'time'. Winter represents 'death'. The golden sands at the beginning represents our youth. This is followed by adolescence, the red sands. This leads us to our working years and the toil and grime of machinery. We still get time to play but as we grow nearer 'winter' (our inevitable end), we still fight on, pulled forward by the same light that lead us when we were younger. The ending can be interpreted many ways although the main theme is 'rebirth'. Whether that rebirth is your own or heredity is the question that interests me the most but I believe it's rebirth in the sense of 'passing on your genes or wisdom'. On the very first sand dune we climb, you see two of those strange pillars with what appear to be scarfs blowing in the wind. To the left of these is a tiny version. I think that's a mother and father with their child. That's why I think it's about passing on genes or wisdom.
This is one of the best comments I've read. Why you so low down the comment section?
I'm unpopular ... :(
I didn't point it out there but there's one other piece of symbolism that suggests rebirth in the sense I've described. I'm not going to be specific. I'll just give you a hint and see if you see it too. Once you enter the very last gate, ask yourself, what does that glowing white figure with the long scarf resemble? And also take a look at the mountain and ask yourself, is this deliberate?
@@GribbleGrunger heh, salmon swimming upriver, how life is created, intentional I believe and pretty obvious ;)
Just like Inside this is very much a mood piece. Something that's more supposed to speak to the subconscious, rather than something you're supposed to really understand. Games like Shadow of the Colossus and Bloodborne are similar in that way.
This was such a beautifull game.
The whole Journey was fantastic and mesmerizing.
But I think the most beautifull thing here was the loyalty you had for your buddy.
waiting for him, instead of going for yourself, was very touching, especially when your buddy was coming closer.
Love this game, and as allways, Love your channel.
Lol at Luca for ruining the ending!
Watching you playing part 1 made me want to try the game for the first time.So glad i did a wonderful game.Thank you.
Thought you abandoned this game after the first upload. Quite a nice surprise and a nice way to spend the rest of the night with. Thanks Marz.
Beautiful game, no doubt about it. The music is just so overwhelmingly good, the aesthetic and art style fits it perfectly and the journey is even more special when there is someone else to share the experiences with. In my eyes, the simplicity of the game, resembles the simplicity of life itself and how the only thing we should care about is the experience and who we experience it with. Just my two cents.
First comment of mine in like foreeeever. lol
Hey Sam! I agree with what you said so I'm gonna piggyback off your comment lol. Tbh, I think the story details don't really matter because I don't think the game is really about that. They're there to give a bit of context to the world, but that's really it. I think it's a spiritual journey of sorts with no right or wrong way of going about it. The destination isn't important, the journey is. I love that she decided to stay behind and wait after her buddy fell off the bridge. The wordless bond they formed in such a short time meant more to her than seeing what was at the top of the mountain and to me, that was pretty special. So few games can pull this off successfully. Team Ico games come to mind as ones that also do bonding well. So anyway, yeah I'd call this less of a game and more of an experience that you can choose to have with another player, all wrapped in a beautiful looking and sounding package.
Also, I'll try to comment more as well in the future haha.
@@blaketh6744 Hey bro! I agree 100% with every single letter and word you wrote there. ;) The story overall is there to give context, like you said, but the most important element about it is the experience or "Journey" and not its destination, the past nor the future. And yeah, Marz waiting for her buddy when he/she fell off the bridge was the sweetest thing. I think I would have dropped myself to be honest. lol and like you said bonding in video games is not easily achievable and this one mastered it fully. Go and make your own comment now, and stop cheating lol
@@samy29987 Lmao
FWIW, Marz, the melody playing in the mountaintop "heavenly" realm is titled "Apotheosis," as in ascension to godhood.
So glad you liked this game, it's amazing how powerful a games narrative can be without any spoken dialogue. If you like this game you should check out a game called Abzu made by the same developers and is very similar to Journey
This game and Abzû are my favorite environmental games. I love them, I love that you play it, AAAA I LOVE YOU. ♡
i think that all opinion on the story can be right, there isnt a "only" explanation for course.
however, i am a guy who likes "happy endings" and i like to belive that the strugle of the main character always have a meaning, so, this is "my" story for journey:
first, there was "light" light is whatever you want to call it, mother nature, god, creatin, life... what you need to understand is that light is the source of everything, and light created itself, and created all life in this planet.
one of light's creations, are the scarfpeople, they were the most inteligent and enligthed of light creatins, and in the start, they lived in peace with the nature that light made.
however, as time progressed, scarfkind wanted to have more, they wanted to increase their life quality (much like human kind) and therefore, the started using scarfnature for theyr own gain, draining its life power to create energy, however, the more they did that, the more they set themselfs apart from "light" and the more the world around them was destroyed, to a point, that light stop supporting the scarfkind, for this, they started figthing for the little that they still have left, killing each other to get them, trying to get as much resources as possible.
in the end, as the world was nearly destroyed, a few scarf survivors, decided to try to save the world, they started freeing the scarf creatures, so that the scarf creatures could go back to "light" and them themselfs, started traveling towards "light" in order to reunite with it.
however, the path was full of dangers and pain, and many times, along the way, they would just die trying to reach "light" either because of the metal monsters, or because of the cold or any other danger.
so, the only way of surviving the travel, as to have a scarf so big, that you would not die, and what is the scarf? spiritual enlightment!
so, when they traveled, they would die along the way, and than, light, merciful as it is, would take their spirits, bring their spirits back to itself, and send them back to the world to try again.
and each time the scarf people reincarnated, they were more spiritualy enligthed, to the point, that some managed to survive all the way, and reach the "light" with their physical boddied, those who achieve that, become the "whitescarfs" those who managed to reach the light wighout dying along the way.
and our character, is one who almoust managed to become a whitescarf, we and out friend were almoust there, so, probably, in the next reencarnation, as we save more creatures and colect more spiritual enligthment, we will finaly reach the ligh wighout dying, and we wont have to reincarnate anymore, because we aready reach the pic, and we can become "one" with the light.
and as the time goes on, "light" will bring back all life of the world to itself (as we see the creatures going towards light in the end of the game) and when it have all life with itself, together, as one, when all become one, than it will divide itself again, and bring life to the world once more, to see if this time, the scarfpeople will do it right, and wont let their greed blind them, so that they can have a good life in the material world.
I'll always remember this game.
44:00 JUMP! JUMP! JUMP! JUMP! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
46:00 You could've at least me him halfway. But NOOOOO, woman waits.😊
You lived.
You died.
You were born again.
3:25 Marz finds out what it’s like to have Scaf envy for the first time. lol
life goals?
finish one, another begins
It's all in the name. It's like that Miley Cyrus song, lol. "Ain't about what's waitin' on the other side. It's the climb."
I've been waiting for this. this game is great
Each scarf and twitter has a unique pattern for each player so you can identify them while playing or at the end. Were you tempted to PS message the playthrough link to your companions that come up at the end?
That's weird, when I finished Journey on PS3 there was a list before the end credits of the players I'd met during the game. It absolutely blew my mind as I knew nothing about the game beforehand and had no idea I was even playing online with other real people, I thought they were just AI characters! I wonder why they took that out? Maybe to stop breaking the 4th wall.
I played this on PS4 too when that version first came out, and they definitely still gave me a list. I think Marz cut it out (which made me sad, I was curious to see the name of her buddy!)
my interpretation ,,the symbols are "spirits" or the essence of them .. those that came before you.. the game also generates a unique one for you and the second journey player
Hey ! One of the most beautiful experience I had to play. Music is also for many! Marz, you have to try "Abzu" in the same vein ^^ Regards de France ^^
Hi Matz. It was a great playthrough, thank you very much :-)
I never noticed how the scarfs disintegrated in the blizzard. It's so sad looking
Great job completing the game Marz!
Your 1st interpretation was pretty spot on but some more insight may be appreciated.
As u said, the white cloaks started out life the same as everything else. The stars, birds, nature, and the red ribbons all coming into being around the mountain which has always been. But after discovering the red ribbon can be harnessed as energy, they soon advanced to living practically as gods high above the ground. That is until the red ribbons could no longer sustain that way of life and the white cloaks became overcome with greed and more lust for power to the point they warred with each other over control of the red ribbons.
As for the ending, notice the beginning scene of a new journey begins with a star falling towards the starting point. Then recall the ending/credits.
All in all, the actual experience you play as yourself is simply just that... Your journey.
Your playing was adorable.
I thought Journey was a peaceful mind calmer game experience
I was wondering who your companion(s) were. As the names of those you shared your ‘journey’ with appear after when the end credits have finished. This game is open to interpretation. During the game at various stages as you approach the mountain, you see a meteor, or life force drift away from the mountain. Some people see this game as a metaphor of life itself. Birth, discovery of our cultures and history . Meeting a partner to share the journey with. Trials and tribulations of life. Death and possible rebirth?
So glad you played this! About the interpretation, I suggest you check out this analysis by Game Score Fanfare of the music score of the game since the score portrays the meaning really well. Don't worry, is not too nerdy on the music theory side and is really, really interesting: ruclips.net/video/KeKnkaB0MBE/видео.html And about the bond... well, I don't wanna spoil anything but I just wanted to say that the other game that made me feel that kind of connection with people I don't know nothing about since Journey is actually Nier Automata. I know you're playing it so you'll see why sooner or later °¿^
(It is said with who u played, one or more people, at the end, and their name :))
I'm just thinking I wished more people play this game as I'm checking your channel and boom wtf this is weird.
that bark in the end of game lol
My experience in this game was horrible because I was alone and the most part that annoyed me when that monster was chasing me in the dark alone. Your experience sticking with somebody have changed the whole journey and every decision you have made meant something hiding running jumping in the right time you chose, when you decide to move from spot to spot you decide doing it fast or slow or jumping or maybe being carful of losing your buddy or you scarf. When I played alone i had no one to refill my scarf to be able to fly so i was always finding another way and it wasn't easy sometimes but your journey having someone that could just stay close to each-other to warm you meant a lot. I don't want you to experience the game alone that's why i am telling you it wasn't something i want to experience again.
I have to disagree with that, Creative. Personally, I believe all first time Journeyers should play alone. Only in this way can you freely explore the game without being hindered or rushed through. Once the first play is done, then travelling with a companion is more fun as you get to learn new game mechanics, such as chirping and touching for charge-ups. Following games, try learning some fancy flying and game glitching. Eight years after release, and loyal players are still finding new things to see and do in this incredible Journey game.
Such a relaxing game
Finally! I love this game and its simplicity, it is so relaxing to play! Marz,
I have some game recommendations for you, do you know the Uncharted games and Beyond two souls? I think you'll like them, they're great games and I would love to see on your channel, kisses
Yup, sadly I've already played the latest Uncharted game, it was great! Beyond Two Souls though has been on my list of must plays! I've been looking forward to playing it, just narrowing down which ones next slowly :D
@@Marzz Glad you liked Uncharted, it's one of my favorite games :) I'm looking forward to the next games to come \o/
Marz nah play Yakuza 0!!!
Hey Marz I love your channel and your videos so much!!! 😊😊😊 But I just had a quick question do you think that you’ll ever play Nintendo games on this channel?? because I would love to see you play The Legend of Zelda Breathe of The Wild or even Super Mario Odyssey. Love your channel and keep up the great work ❤️❤️❤️👍👍😊😊
I think she's open to play a lot of games, she just doesn't own a Switch.