Dots & Co: A Puzzle Adventure vs Journey
Dots & Co: A Puzzle Adventure
Dots & Co: A Puzzle Adventure is a new iteration of the fan-favorite puzzle game that utilizes a fun connect-plus-matching mechanism. The gameplay is simple to grasp and yet challenging enough to make you stop for a while to consider your next move. The game also offers brand-new levels - over 320 of them - as well as an original cast of characters to play as, each with their own unique abilities that you can then use to beat a level. Like the original game, Dots, Dots & Co: A Puzzle Adventure features gorgeous landscapes that seem a bit more fleshed out in this version.Dots & Co: A Puzzle Adventure may offer the same old gameplay but the characters in this game do help spice things up, giving this game a bit more depth than the original. That said, if you love Dots, you'll definitely enjoy playing this game.
Journey
Journey is literally a quintessential "artsy" adventure game. Why so? Well, the game puts you in the shoes of a mysterious robed figure who you will control throughout your adventure across beautiful, quiet and mostly desert landscapes. Each landscape provides players with a puzzle to solve that will allow them to move on to the next scene, though players can simply roam around the place and drink in the gorgeous visuals.There isn't a lot of buttons in the game and that's fine enough since you really don't need much to solve the puzzles, but personally, I'm incredibly intrigued by the Sing function. Although it is used to solve certain puzzles, most of the time you'll probably be using it idly while your character is travelling. Depending on how long you press the button and how fast you do so, you can actually create amazing little tunes that you'd love to have it recorded down and turned into perhaps a ringtone or something.
That said, Journey is a game that's so much more than composing music and solving puzzles. It is a journey (like its namesake) to help the robed figure discover who he/she is and to help you figure out what's happened in the game world, resulting in the sprawling desert that spans most of the game.