Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View vs Journey
Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View
Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View is an investigative point-and-click-like adventure game where you play as a wheelchair-bound retired private investigator named Conway. A young girl named Charlotte May was kidnapped in the middle of the night in his neighborhood and he has decided to dust off his coat and dive into one last case. In this game, you'll need to talk to neighbors, observe their behavior, and conduct some sleuthing of your own, all in hopes of tracking down the missing girl before it’s too late!Besides having incredible voice acting and storytelling that completely immerse you into the story, the game also features a nice photography aspect, allowing you to photograph pieces of evidence as well as to spy on neighbors exhibiting suspicious behaviors, as well as an evidence board where you'll try to figure out what fits where just to reveal the bigger picture of the case. There are even vintage stamps that you can collect for fun too... if you can spot them that is!
All in all, Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View is a brilliant detective game where a keen eye and having great deduction skills can come in handy. Will you be able to rescue the girl from her captors before it's too late?
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.