Journey Collector's Edition for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

Flow - Very conceptual. Very pretty. Very interesting controls. Very, very boring. You're some sort of amoeba and eat other microscopic creatures to grow? The tagline of the game is something like, "If life could be simple." Simple here translates to boring. I hated this game. NEXT.

Flower - Very surprised here. I REALLY enjoyed flower. Basically, you start as a flower petal and using the controller's six-axis motion controls, you float through the air to hit and "awaken" other flowers eventually having hundreds of petals following your original one. Later levels introduce different "objectives" you need to complete which switches it up. Weird concept for sure, but the game play was very enjoyable. Relatively short (Maybe took an hour to finish?) but one of the more interesting and surprisingly enjoyable games I've played in a long time, especially since I knew nothing about it jumping in.

Journey - Long story short, you play as some dude (or possibly dudette) trying to get the top of a far away mountain by jumping/flying throughout different parts of the world. You get powerups to get a longer scarf so you can jump longer distances. The kicker here is that in the game world, you'll meet other players trying to complete the same task as yourself. Some will travel with you, others you'll leave behind and vise versa. With no actual communication in game (voice chat) I had fun communicating with other players using other forms of communication (patterns, symbols, pinging, etc). The world itself is absolutely beautiful and the game play is real slick. Again, a short title that I completed in an hour or so.

Final Word - So funny story, there's actually 6 games on this disc - Flow, Flower, Journey and three Indie games I didn't bother checking out because Indie games aren't really my thing. If they are your thing though, this collection is a steal at $25. I'd give it this collection a higher score, because it was real fun, but Flow was SO

These games are not for everyone. They're mostly for the "games are art" crowd. The visuals are very impressive but the gameplay is incredibly dull and boring. It's a 10/10 piece of digital art, but a 3/10 game. I don't like how the collection still makes you download each individual title to play them either.