Hanging With Friends vs Journey
Hanging With Friends
Hanging With Friends , as you might have guessed, is a brand-new hangman-styled word game developed by Zynga. As with many of their other games, Zynga has added a nice twist to the classic hangman gameplay by making the game a lot more child-friendly - instead of an actual hangman (complete with the noose), the game uses balloons and cute cartoonish characters. There is also hints that you can use to solve a particularly tough puzzle. Interestingly, you can even craft word puzzles for your friends and family to guess.Hanging With Friends is a fun hangman game that is suitable for players/wordies of all ages, and if you're a fan of word games, you will want to try this game out.
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.