Journey vs Kindergarten
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.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten aims to bring you back to the time when you're in kindergarten doing what kindergarteners always do... in addition to the learning, of course. The game is designed more like a puzzle-adventure game rather than a straight-up adventure, since there will be plenty of creeping around the grown-ups as you try to figure out what caused the many things that happened in your kindergarten, including the case of a missing classmate, the janitor cleaning up blood, a teacher who dreads being in the same room as a bunch of kindergarteners, and generally a kindergarten that just feels a bit off.The game is as whimsical as it is entertaining, and for a game in a rather uncharted territory, it ended up feeling like the sort of game that many players regardless of age would love. After all, who hasn't been to a kindergarten to know what it is like, right?