Farlands Design Den's video: Journey GAME DESIGNER REVIEWS

Professional Game Designer Stanislav Costiuc (Watch Dogs Legion, Trials Rising) reviews Journey by thatGameCompany (creators of Flow, Flower and Sky: Children of Light), a game that utilizes The Hero's Journey, also known as the Monomyth, to play with players' emotions and create catharsis. This critique will take a look how Journey does that. This video will spoil pretty much the whole game, so if you haven't played it, make sure to do so before watching this video Enjoy my critiques? Check the other videos I have on the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/Farlands?sub_confirmation=1 Support my Patreon campaign, it helps out a ton! https://www.patreon.com/farlands Alternatively, you can join my channel as a YouTube member with the same perks! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKmGmd4K-Kv17fu0TMJ5Z0A/join And if you use Twitter, you can follow me here: https://twitter.com/farlander1991 00:00 - Introduction 02:06 - Design - The Monomyth 07:35 - Design - Emotions Through Movement 10:47 - Design - Emotions Through Environments 11:45 - Design - Emotions Through Cooperation 14:37 - Context 17:08 - Aesthetics - Visual Style and Colors 18:02 - Aesthetics - Music and Leitmotif 22:05 - Aesthetics - The Song Sound Effect 23:48 - Cohesion 24:48 - Emotions 26:31 - Stasocritic Score