It doesn't get easier, but it is more comforting with a companion.
Someone who sticks by you, and sings a little song when you sing the first notes, and vice versa.
They sail across the sea of sand, and you feel the need to join them, and you both fly through the air, red trails in the dunes.
The way they help you out and find the secrets that you miss, and the way you help them find things yourself.
The inevitable frustration that they just happened to leave the shelter at the same time the big scary creature shines its spotlight over you, and you only watch helplessly as that scarf is torn, but thankfully they're alright.
How you see them climb up that peak with you, as it gets harder and harder, and slower and slower... until they stop, and wait. Wait for you to join them, and become strong again.
And how even at the very end of things, they still walk with you, and you sing the songs back and forth with each other, even as the light takes you both.
I've never played Journey, nor have I ever seen anything really about it, other than knowing that Austin Wintory composed it, and that it was on PlayStation until 2020, and that's about the time I put it on my wishlist on Steam. I was practically blind going into this game, and I'm sure fucking glad I was.
I really needed this game right now.
Someone who sticks by you, and sings a little song when you sing the first notes, and vice versa.
They sail across the sea of sand, and you feel the need to join them, and you both fly through the air, red trails in the dunes.
The way they help you out and find the secrets that you miss, and the way you help them find things yourself.
The inevitable frustration that they just happened to leave the shelter at the same time the big scary creature shines its spotlight over you, and you only watch helplessly as that scarf is torn, but thankfully they're alright.
How you see them climb up that peak with you, as it gets harder and harder, and slower and slower... until they stop, and wait. Wait for you to join them, and become strong again.
And how even at the very end of things, they still walk with you, and you sing the songs back and forth with each other, even as the light takes you both.
I've never played Journey, nor have I ever seen anything really about it, other than knowing that Austin Wintory composed it, and that it was on PlayStation until 2020, and that's about the time I put it on my wishlist on Steam. I was practically blind going into this game, and I'm sure fucking glad I was.
I really needed this game right now.