City of Love: Paris vs Journey
City of Love: Paris
City of Love: Paris , developed by none other than Ubisoft, lets you dive into an interactive drama where you'll get to play as the heroine of your own story. Enjoy a storyline filled with romance and mystery as you visit various iconic Parisian locations like the Louvre, Notre-Dame cathedral, Montmartre, and more. The game also has a cast of well-fleshed-out characters for you to meet and flirt with... and who knows? You may end up finding your one true love!Like most games in this new interactive storytelling genre though, City of Love: Paris happens to be rather restrictive when it comes to premium decisions and unlocking new episodes. Having to wait a whole day just for 5 minutes of gameplay isn't exactly the idea of fun. However, the game is superb illustrations - better than most of the interactive storytelling games out there - and an interface that's very easy to navigate.
So, if you enjoy a romantic story that has a dash of mystery in it, City of Love: Paris is the game you should play. Just bear in mind that you will only be able to play this game in short bursts so you might want to fill in the time with some other games like City of Love: Paris that you may like.
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.