Journey vs Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness
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.
Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness
Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness puts you in the shoes of renowned detective, Nancy Drew, as she sets off on yet again another exciting adventure to discover the whereabout of Captain Magnus, the captain of the celebrated ship “Heerlijkheid” - a ship which also happens to be the centerpiece of a small Icelandic town’s local festival. The journey to find the captain is wrought with challenging puzzles that you'll need to solve as well as suspects to interrogate for clues and information. Will you be able to find Captain Magnus before it is too late?Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness is a puzzle-heavy adventure and as such, fans of puzzle games would definitely enjoy this installment. Do check it out!