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I enjoyed Journey and I don't mean to cast it in a bad light, but I think a lot of it is about the 'era' its from.
It released when there really wasn't a lot of indie games on the consoles and most people really only played games from the AAA lineup. So for many players it was a unique high quality 'indiefied' experience that didn't rely on classic tutorials, voice acting, or whatever.
If you had played nontraditional storytelling games from that time or played Journey much later, it may not have the same impact.
That's an interesting perspective. I think I tried it last year so quite a long time after it was released.
I think it came up in a discussion of "what games can you only play once?" and I had just finished Outer Wilds which was also on that list so I was excited to find something to fill the Outer Wilds hole in my heart but Journey wasn't it unfortunately.