Diamond Diaries Saga vs Journey
Diamond Diaries Saga
Diamond Diaries Saga is a match-3 linker game, developed by none other than King, the creator of Candy Crush Saga. In this game, you'll need to work with your aunt Bernadetta to solve the jewelry mystery by collecting diamonds. To do so, you simply need to link up at least 3 same-colored charms to remove them from the playing area and let the diamond at the top drop down a little bit further. The game provides you with limited moves, plenty of challenges and fun power-ups too.In light of the incredible success of puzzle linker games like Disney's Tsum Tsum, it is not surprising to see King dive into this exciting casual puzzle game genre with its own title. In addition to the entertainment of linker games, Diamond Diaries Saga has a pretty nice storyline to boot! If you love Disney's Tsum Tsum, do give this game a try!
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.