thispatternismine | Sword of the Sea

This game is probably great if you've either never played Journey, or have played it but found it too boring. I am not one of those people.

This just takes one of the most beautiful & chill games ever & complicate it by adding pointless nonsense to it, reusing enough of the design elements to be a constant reminder of something better.

On the plus side, I guess at least I haven't lost money trying it out. Lego Horizon Adventures is one of the monthly games, so I was going to reactivate PS+ for one month to give it a go, because I like the Horizon games but have no interest in Lego games. If I like it, I'll buy it after cancelling the subscription, & if I don't, then at least I'm only out £7 rather than £30+. Then I got a £10 voucher for PSN, & Sword of the Sea was on my wishlist because of the Journey association, so decided to go up a tier & get PS+ Extra instead of just Essential, so I could try that too, essentially for only 99p. Looking through the available games, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is on there too. Funnily enough that one was on my wishlist but I recently took it off since it had been sitting on there for years & I hadn't got around to buying it, so clearly I wasn't that interested. So I can try that one & see if it's for me.