Journey vs Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
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.
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is a beautiful, anime-inspired action-adventure RPG that lets you follow the story and journey of a young boy named Oliver, who ventures into a parallel world in an attempt to save his mother. He makes some new friends along the way; friends who would help him battle the dangerous creatures he encounters. The battles in this game feels intuitive and dynamic, mainly because you can easily switch between characters and familiars and partly because of a combat system that combines real-time and turn-based mechanics.Ni No Kuni manages to catch the limelight back when it was first released mainly because of its masterful storytelling, well-packed into a fun and gorgeous role-playing adventure. By playing this game, you'll actually be able to immerse yourself in the world that Oliver finds himself in and relate to his struggles as he tries to do what's right to save his mother.