Fun Fact about Journey: The soundtrack was nominated in 2013 for a Grammy. (Best score soundtrack for visual media) And while it didn't win, it became the first video game to be nominated for a Grammy award. *That's* how good this soundtrack is!
@@Ingisen While Journey is definitely art the thing you wrote doesn't make much sense. There's no body that announces if something is officially art or not, there's no such thing as "officially considered a work of art". If enough people believe something is art then it is art.
@@adrammelech6323 "Enough" here being basically 1 person. What defines art is resonant expression, and if at least someone, somewhere* finds emotional resonance within a piece of expression, (no matter what form it takes) then it's art. *this can include the author, or exclude them. If the author of an expression doesn't find resonance in it, but someone else does, that's unintentional art.
Yes, I know this is the comment from two years ago and I probably won't get an answer but wasn't since for the first one to get nominated for a Grammy but that was just for an individual song
The developer's of Journey also developed a game called Sky: Children of Light. I was really into it for a while as it was just so beautiful and the sound design was amazing.
@@Dcmlo Sky is free and an absolutely incredible experience, too, in my opinion, so I wholeheartedly recommend checking it out, too, if you'd like to! ^^ It has become one of my 3 favourite games of all time since I started playing it in 2020, and I have so many super special memories of it ^^ It's a really special game, in my opinion!
My main issue with sky, is that while yes it's a similar or basically the same story, they turned the game more into a money grab. That said, it's still an amazing experience, and has a ton more exploring to it
Well, half of them. Lot of people behind Journey quit thatgamecompany after it was released (including its creative director), and founded Giant Squid Studios. Both parts still make good games
Journey is one of the videogames you just don't get tired of. You know it's a simple game you finish it in like 1 hr, but the design, the colors, the story, the music... everything fit so perfectly in harmony. Journey is a therapeutical videogame and I will die on this hill
This song makes me tear up every time. It reverberates is my heart and mind each time I hear it. A song of triumph, from the moment we burst through the storm to the very end of our journey. I remember my first time hearing this and it's stuck with me ever since. I'm happy I've experienced Journey.
At Magfest several years ago Austin Wintory conducted a chamber orchestra playing the Journey soundtrack live while the game was played onstage. One of the best things I've seen live. It was such a neat experience.
1:30 when you crest the storm clouds and finally see the absolutely gorgeous mountaintop that you’d been fighting so hard to reach, it’s enough to make a man sob. Even thinking about that magical moment from two years ago makes me tear up. There is no game quite like Journey, and it’s soundtrack turns it from a great game to a masterpiece. Edit: and 6:15 as you enter the mountain’s peak, alone or with your companion, it’s truly incredible. The song hits different both ways. With, you and your companion found what you were looking for, together. As you walk into that light, you were not alone. But if you lost your companion, it becomes a very sorrowful piece. You made it, but what about the people that stood with you, that helped you reach where you are now? What about the people *you* helped. Did they make it? Or are they stuck down below, searching for a way to the lofty peak you have reached, slowly freezing to death. I’m crying as I write this, and that, in my honest, true opinion, is the mark of a true video game experience
I won't lie that hit me harder than I expected and brought me to tears. It has been years since I played Journey but I still remember it fondly, the game is so damn simple yet it just pulls you in so easily and makes it truly feel like a, well, journey to whatever goal you may have, the mountaintop in this case. After the first quarter of the game I was either crying or tearing up through the rest of it, there's just something about it that pierces straight to your heart and makes you feel so much emotion, it's amazing and so many game designers could learn from it just how important immersion and emotion are in making a game worth remembering.
The section at around 4:24 gives me chills every time, and the climax of that section at 4:36 with the strings sweeping up to that highest note makes me cry consistently. One of the most beautiful, haunting, uplifting, motivating, gut-wrenching pieces of music I have ever heard, and that section is easily one of my fav musical moments of all time.
The moment this song is over, it is followed by "I was born for this" at the game credits. Cue more water works right after that. 👍 Glad to see you and many people enjoy this song. 😇 Have a nice week. 👋
I remember back when Journey first came out and everyone was playing it so the multiplayer was always a thing. I loved the fact that you might find another player on this single player journey but you can’t talk to them, only spam one button to say like “over here!” and they’re in the credits as well
Honestly, sometimes when life seems just too hard and bleak I start Journey and play through. It always feels like my soul got cleansed and restored a little bit. This game is beyond a masterpiece both visually, musically and thematically.
Have never played the game, but this music is top notch. Journey, Ori, and Gris have some of the most deeply emotional music out there. I love that you react and give in depth analysis on such a wide range of game music. It's made me want to play so many new games. Journey is at the top of the list.
Journey holds a special place in my heart. I have had the chance to speak with Austin a couple of times for some lengthy conversations about his career and music as a way to tell stories. He has stated that it's both an honor and a shame that this score was the first video game soundtrack to be nominated for an academy award, since so much great music has been overlooked before his. He talks about how awards and recognition should never be your end goal in creative pursuit, but a new ground level to improve upon. Such a great score, one that he wrote, in part, to be a cello concerto for his friend Tina Guo, the performer, to really bring her skills to the front and center. Both are really great inspirations of mine as a cellist and an indie composer.
Gosh I remember this game. It really is an experience, not a game in the traditional sense. Pure artistic emotion. I remember one of my playthroughs I was with the same person the whole time, another traveler, and I had to put the game down for a while to do something. When I came back, he/she was still there, sitting next to my character waiting for me. And this is like a 30-45 minute wait. It was magical. I felt touched.
Aww, that's super cool! That's really special. That's what Sky: Children of the Light feels like, to me, and I still really want to play Journey sometime, too ^^ I've heard, and am 100% sure it is, that it's a masterpiece, as Sky is, to me, too!
I always tear up when I hear this soundtrack. It's my belief we died on that mountain side, and Apotheosis is our soul shedding from its body, lifting up from death's dark limbo, and roaring up into the heavens, before we break through the dark storm clouds of our demise, and into the sunlight of heaven.
It's a fitting name for a track. Apotheosis is the process by which a mortal ascends to godhood and immortality. It's an uplifting process, and in many myths, the journey to and through apotheosis is hard and heavy, with much toil, leaving a weary mortal at the steps of godhood to crawl up it ever so slowly if only they can continue to pull themselves, one halting step at a time, into the land of immortality. And that is what that final sequence of Journey feels like.
Journey is like nothing else out there. It's an experience and this piece certainly conveys and illustrates that. There is another emotional aming experience called, The Last Guardian. It's music also converys a lot of emotion, although different from the one in Journey. Highly recommend it, both the game and the soundtrack. Great video!
I feel like I comment this on every Apotheosis react video I see, but, much like the game itself, this song is arguably one of the best, most purely emotional music experiences I've ever had. Journey was truly something special and it doesn't feel like an exaggeration to say that I doubt I'd ever experience a game like that again.
I can only play this game once in a blue moon because of how it leaves me feeling in the end. This game guts me to my core and leaves me a mess until the end. It's so unbelievably raw that I'd be shocked if it didn't leave anyone who played it an emotional wreck afterwards.
Playing Journey at launch unspoiled was experience like no other. The OST to this day is one of my most played albums of all time by far, and a decade later I still struggle to find anything quite like it. Nascence's cello specifically enraptured my entire soul
The whole scene for Apotheosis makes this one of the most beautiful sequences in video games, IMO, the music just fits perfectly and doesn't even feel like BGM, it's part of the experience, part of the Journey to the summit
I listened to a few compositions people had made for ancient songs like “Lament for Gilgamesh,” and as soon as I listened to this, I knew. I knew why Journey sounded like me. Like the Deluge and the return. Like the Exodus and the return. Like the Burning of our Temple and the return. Like our diaspora and what always follows. This was composed in the mood of the Levant, a halfway place between the endless power of Egypt and the inevitable endings of Mesopotamia, and a place my bedtime stories never stopped sounding like.
I play Journey everytime I feel sad or lonely. It's one of the few games I can stand to play in its entirety in one go, and one of the few I play with headphones on; usually I play games without the audio and put on a podcast or a video while playing, but for Journey I don't. The soundtrack is just such a massive part of it that I can't bear not to listen to it as I travel; I've played it around 30 times or more, and still cry everytime me and my travel companion for the session reach the end. The way it ramps up as we glide down the dunes, the way it lingers as we explore the sea like structures near the end, the ascent in the tower, the ascent to the mountain, this music immerses me and drags me in. This music is incredible, and one of the things that can get me out of shutdowns when I'm not well. This music means so much to me, just like the game, so I thank you for listening to it and reacting to it. I hope you have a good day.
This song. To this day, is one of the few tracks to actually make me openly cry. To this day I have no idea why, all I know was going through the game I get to that point and I'm am wiping thr tears away asking self why am I crying. Its OST is a masterpiece of emotion and stands the test of time
When the music hits the 4:35 mark that sort of dissonant sound the strings make as they soar always felt like it signified the turning point from doubt to determination. As if a breakthrough was discovered and now we cruise for the rest of the ride. Love it!
This 1( or 2) hour master piece of a game made me reflect on every aspect of my life...and this song in particular made me really apreciate BGM's more... And absolutely beautiful experience....
The beginning again, as you put it, helped me through the loss of a long-time friend. This game is very important to me in many ways, because of just that. I might recommend trying Abzu and The Pathless. Austin Wintory did the music for both, and they both also have the same creative director as Journey, Matt Nava. The music is powerful in different ways, but similarly important.
I'm glad you said you knew this song well--this is basically the most relevant song for your channel. And, I don't think it's about new beginnings or possibility--it's the opposite. Fulfillment, completion. The Traveler getting to experience the fullest version of themself, nothing between them and their goal, and then quietly reaching it.
i was really looking forward to you reviewing this since there was no way you didn't know about this. the music really sticks with us especially since there is no actual dialogue throughout the entire game and its all music, atmosphere and breathtaking visuals and all the storytelling happens through that. thank you for making me revisit this masterpiece
I knew this game for a very long time but never really gave a chance because i was young. Now i'm a older and more and more i find myself getting atracted to stories that are more poetic and contemplative. Your channel is really a gem. One Music i would really like you to hear is The Rumble of Scientific Triumph from the Made in Abyss movie. The series has some really amazing music and the show overhaul is really good.
I would give so much to be able to experience Journey again for the first time. The emotional hit is never quite as profound as that first time. That said, listening to this amazing piece with intention here with you makes me appreciate it just that much more.
Always lovely to join someone in appreciating this gorgeous track. Have you heard the re-orchestration that was released this year? I was hesitant to listen at first because I worried that no new version could hold up to the original, and I was so glad to be wrong. It made me cry all over again.
Oh man, Marco. I literally thought about recommending this just YESTERDAY because I realized that you never did react to this. journey's soundtrack as a whole--but Apotheosis in particular--is a modern masterpiece. It remains the only track that can make me cry just from listening to it and I don't mean I get a little misty-eyed. No, I freaking WEEP when I hear it. I'm writing this before even watching the video and I can't wait to hear what you have to say about it.
Whenever someone tells me videogames can never be art, I show them this game. Such a truly human experience that everyone can understand. Thankyou for reacting to this track :)
Did you know that Austin Wintory released an album this year with a complete reimagined score of Journey together with the London Symphony Orchestra. It's worth a try and you can listen to it for free on his YT channel.
Some of the music from Ori: And the blind forest and Ori: and the will of the wisps, is very similar. The amount of emotion that the tracks have in combination with the way everything plays out on screen can only be done in games. Its one thing to watch a movie... but with games its so much different because its almost like you're LIVING the things happening on screen.
I watched the video now. You and I pretty much got into it in the same way while listening. But what you said about the track really struck a cord with me. Because to answer the question in your title: yes, it did make me contemplate my life. I first played Journey when it came out and it was a very important part of my life. Not long after, I made a choice to walk down a new path that would change my life and from there I started a decade of self-discovery and growth. This track was the soundtrack of that decade for me and I came back to it very often. Aside from its masterful composition, this track's sentimental value to me is unfathomable. And I am certain that I am not the only one who feels that way--this is one of those rare tracks that truly can just resonate with a person's soul to a degree that not many can. You may already know this, but for the ten year anniversary of this game, Mr. Wintory did a reorchestration of many of the tracks from the game, including this one. If you have not listened to it, I implore you to do so because he managed to take this wonderful soundtrack and lift it to even higher heights. The whole thing is here on youtube, just search for "Traveler - a journey symphony." The youtube video also has commentary from Mr. Wintory. Listening to it feels like hearing it for the first time again.
gosh, it was so special watching you react to this song. journey holds an incredibly important place in my heart largely because of what its music made me feel and continues to make me feel. i could never put into words what this song makes me feel, but watching you visually explained it. thank you for sharing if you haven’t, the composer of journey’s soundtrack organized an entire symphony to orchestrate the entire album!! i would love to watch you react to the symphonic version of this soundtrack
The company that makes this game also has one called Sky: Children of Light. The game has beautiful music and honest to god, it was hard to put down. I was riveted to the screen. And the story. Oh man. The game is just really hard to put into words.
Yeeees! Let's go! Thank you for honoring my request Marco! Although considering your reply to when I requested this, I think you had plans to react to some of the songs from Journey regardless lol :) Either way thank you!
have you checked out The Pathless and its OST? Also written by Wintory and the final song just brings me to a deep contemplative mood just as much as Journey, but from another direction.
Your commentary at the end really surprised me. I've played Journey multiple times and when you go through the journey (haha) again the patterns on your scarf progressively get more intricate.
This video is going to get me to actually sit down and play through journey. Also, I recommend the soundtrack from the game One Shot, specifically eleventh hour
The tension build up under your skin, looks like it will blown up like before, but in the process it dissipates and resolve gracefully, leaving you with nothing but weird but delighted tranquility. In the end, everything will be okay.
I haven't listened to Journey's OST for a long time, 1 hour ago I decided to listen to it, I finished listening to it, I refresh youtube, and this video shows up, what are the odds lol
Whenever I feel like I need to cry a bit, I hear Apotheosis and then Naiscense. Austin Wintory really captured something sublime with this soundtrack, it outshines the game for me.
This track destroys me every time. It is heartbreaking and wonderful and it's lovely to know others feel the same way. I think back to do many times, completing this game with a stranger who became a friend. It may be the last time we ever interact but we've been on this journey together. Hearts are drawn in the sand and we walk into the light together.
Journey is both a visual and an auditory masterpiece. In my opinion it is the best game of its genre. Even tho i played it years ago i still go back to the soundtracks and appreciate them every now and then.
This was a fantastic game. Sadly nobody ever appeared to join me until the very end, I remember weakly calling out to him as I climbed the final stretch at the top hoping he'd see me behind him. I still don't know if he saw me as he got to the top. Got a song suggestion from the anime Goblin Slayer called "Priestess and Her Profound Mercy" by Kenichiro Suehiro. *Not* an anime opening, but one of the more emotional songs on the soundtrack.
I love to watch your face while listening to these music tracks. I can easily see when you’re being swept up into it, and it increases my enjoyment even more to see them impact you as you listen. Always a joy to watch
The only thing I got to say to this music, is... wow. Just wow. I never played journey and will probably watch a full gameplay or play it myself, because the music is just fantanstic. I shed a tear listening to this not even knowing a thing about journey. But this piece of music made me happiness and exitement, as well as sadness and a deep feeling of longing after something already gone. I just wanna say that this was an exquisite track and I will definetly listen to this more often from now on. Thank you Marco for this again wonderful video and thanks to those who recommended this piece, because I really enjoyed it. To everyone who read my comment till the end, have a great day. :) And also to those who didn't!
Marco, I followed your channel for the Genshin videos just like a lot of people, but I want to say that I hope you continue reacting and analyzing this kind of introspective, soulful game music as well. Two days ago I watched your A Beautiful Song video since Nier Automata's OST is one of my favorite of all time, and I didn't expect how personal your interpretation and feelings on that piece were. It was a pleasant surprise to see that side of you. I think this is another of those songs and analyses. Journey is another game and soundtrack that are special to me and now I feel emotional again with your words and the comment section, remembering my first playthrough. My companion was only with me for half of the playthrough and I got lost in the snow but I continued, in awe of the part where we soar above the clouds free from attachments. It was pure happiness under the sun after that awful mountain. And when I reach the threshold at the summit, I found them again and I was able to walk until the end together. Everytime I listen to Apotheosis I feel again that joy of flying free and unbound followed by a melancholy for the kindness of a stranger who waited for me. Sigh, I feel like playing it again! Maybe I will tomorrow
Thank you! Was waiting for that one, cos Journey is an amazing game and the music, the music makes it a singular experience. So good, SO GOOD, who allowed it!!!
I was fortunate enough to buy the game on a sale and could experience the semi-coop aspect of it. Then right at the climax I crashed and had to finish it alone, was a little bummed out but. None the less it was a jaw-dropping journey.
Journey was the first game I played during the start of the pandemic. It had been years since I’ve played a video game and needed something to distract myself from all the hard and sudden stay-at-home academic work. I didn’t knew anything about it. I was going myself through a personal journey and…this game made me face my fears and pain, in silence. It also made me face my past and the unnecessary guilt that came with it. That one can face the other side after a hard fight, that one can learn and atone and still make it to the other side and find purpose and peace (embodied in “Atonement” and “Apotheosis”). That, and much more was my lesson from Journey and it’s beautiful soundtrack. It holds such a special place to me that I go back to it every now and then, when I need to be gentle and kind with the struggles of life and its dynamics.
i remember playing Journey for the first time as a young teen when it first came out. It was the only video game my parents actually enjoyed watching me play!
Yeah Austin Wintory music, as well and the music direction/programming of this game are absolutely amazing This game is an absolutely unforgettable game and music experience
I haven't touched upon Journey's music yet, but i have experienced Austin Wintory's music in a smaller game, which is Tooth and Tail. Would highly recommend a listen to each of the Faction commander's themes.
There's really nothing out there quite like Journey. It's a downright spiritual experience and never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Will you also react to 'I was born for this' ?
Journey is... quite literally a journey, in both senses of the word. The music is but a cog in the beauty that is the game. I'll forever regret not being able to actually play it myself, but i've cried enough times just by watching OTHER people play it, so that should give you a measure of what this game can offer.
When Journey came out, I wasn't able to play it. I watched an Let's play and absolutely fell in love with it! I love the whole aesthetic of the game and to this day I wan't one of those cloaks myself 🤣 I really should sew myself one. And the music? My comfort music! Especially when everything at work is spiraling downwards again, I just turn on this music and drown out the noises around me. Also I can recommend the ABZÛ and The Pathless soundtracks, also both by Austin Wintory. They may not have the same feeling like the Journey soundtrack, but they help me get through stressful days and boost my creativity nonetheless!
Austin wintory is truly a gifted composer, see Pathless a game I played during the UK's lockdown in 2020. I played this game for the soundtrack, there a 4 boss tracks but the background music was calming and soothing 😌 👌🏻 wintory clearly knew what he was doing with this. Go in hard and listen to path to salvation, you won't be disappointed ✨️
I adore this game and its soundtrack. I think this was the first (and most profound) time I truly experienced a game as a piece of art. Haven't played it in a long time, but I still listen to the soundtrack regularly.
In this game everything is essential to the experience they tried to convey, music just as much as visuals and gameplay. The music is almost like a wordless narrator to this tale.
Journey will always be a very special game for me. I didn't play it myself, but I remember that evening when I was alone at home, and one of my favorite youtube channels uploaded a letsplay of this game. I watched it and it was a true journey of soul. Emotional and heartbreaking. It still makes me cry. I would like to recommend you another soundtrack, which is also very beautiful and seems to me somewhat similar to Journey ost (from my unprofessional point of view OFC :) ) GRIS ost by Berlinist. And maybe you would be interested in Sky: Children of the Light ost. Sky is created by thatgamecompany too, and it's main plot and idea are the same as Journey's. The difference is that Sky has multiplayer. Waltzing in the Rain is so beautiful. And Flight, which plays at the last part of the game (moment of Apotheosis in Journey).
Journey really is one of the best indie games out there. You should probably check out ABZU too, I'm pretty sure it's done by the same people. In my opinion, its OST surpasses an already incredibly high standard that Journey has set.
I love journey, it is incredible, another great example is Abzu, which is like journey but underwater, and if I not mistaken it’s the same team and composer from journey
Journey's music reminds me a little about Rimé ❤ Both soundtracks make my soul dance and laught and love and cry and be angry and still enjoing both games! I would love to know what you may thing about the music in Rimé ❤
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Fun Fact about Journey: The soundtrack was nominated in 2013 for a Grammy. (Best score soundtrack for visual media) And while it didn't win, it became the first video game to be nominated for a Grammy award. *That's* how good this soundtrack is!
Another fun fact: The game is officially considered a work of art
@@Ingisen While Journey is definitely art the thing you wrote doesn't make much sense. There's no body that announces if something is officially art or not, there's no such thing as "officially considered a work of art". If enough people believe something is art then it is art.
@@adrammelech6323 "Enough" here being basically 1 person. What defines art is resonant expression, and if at least someone, somewhere* finds emotional resonance within a piece of expression, (no matter what form it takes) then it's art.
*this can include the author, or exclude them. If the author of an expression doesn't find resonance in it, but someone else does, that's unintentional art.
@@mrrodgers0 Yeah I know, I never said 1 person is not enough
Yes, I know this is the comment from two years ago and I probably won't get an answer but wasn't since for the first one to get nominated for a Grammy but that was just for an individual song
The developer's of Journey also developed a game called Sky: Children of Light. I was really into it for a while as it was just so beautiful and the sound design was amazing.
Which studio/company are these developer from?
@@Dcmlo Sky is free and an absolutely incredible experience, too, in my opinion, so I wholeheartedly recommend checking it out, too, if you'd like to! ^^ It has become one of my 3 favourite games of all time since I started playing it in 2020, and I have so many super special memories of it ^^ It's a really special game, in my opinion!
Also ABZU. Same composer too, similarly beautiful atmosphere.
My main issue with sky, is that while yes it's a similar or basically the same story, they turned the game more into a money grab. That said, it's still an amazing experience, and has a ton more exploring to it
Well, half of them. Lot of people behind Journey quit thatgamecompany after it was released (including its creative director), and founded Giant Squid Studios. Both parts still make good games
Journey is one of the videogames you just don't get tired of. You know it's a simple game you finish it in like 1 hr, but the design, the colors, the story, the music... everything fit so perfectly in harmony.
Journey is a therapeutical videogame and I will die on this hill
This song makes me tear up every time. It reverberates is my heart and mind each time I hear it. A song of triumph, from the moment we burst through the storm to the very end of our journey. I remember my first time hearing this and it's stuck with me ever since. I'm happy I've experienced Journey.
Journey was the first game that got me to cry
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Same man
Journey was the first game I played so the nostalgia in this video hits like a truck
At Magfest several years ago Austin Wintory conducted a chamber orchestra playing the Journey soundtrack live while the game was played onstage. One of the best things I've seen live. It was such a neat experience.
1:30 when you crest the storm clouds and finally see the absolutely gorgeous mountaintop that you’d been fighting so hard to reach, it’s enough to make a man sob. Even thinking about that magical moment from two years ago makes me tear up. There is no game quite like Journey, and it’s soundtrack turns it from a great game to a masterpiece.
Edit: and 6:15 as you enter the mountain’s peak, alone or with your companion, it’s truly incredible. The song hits different both ways. With, you and your companion found what you were looking for, together. As you walk into that light, you were not alone. But if you lost your companion, it becomes a very sorrowful piece. You made it, but what about the people that stood with you, that helped you reach where you are now? What about the people *you* helped. Did they make it? Or are they stuck down below, searching for a way to the lofty peak you have reached, slowly freezing to death. I’m crying as I write this, and that, in my honest, true opinion, is the mark of a true video game experience
I won't lie that hit me harder than I expected and brought me to tears.
It has been years since I played Journey but I still remember it fondly, the game is so damn simple yet it just pulls you in so easily and makes it truly feel like a, well, journey to whatever goal you may have, the mountaintop in this case.
After the first quarter of the game I was either crying or tearing up through the rest of it, there's just something about it that pierces straight to your heart and makes you feel so much emotion, it's amazing and so many game designers could learn from it just how important immersion and emotion are in making a game worth remembering.
The section at around 4:24 gives me chills every time, and the climax of that section at 4:36 with the strings sweeping up to that highest note makes me cry consistently. One of the most beautiful, haunting, uplifting, motivating, gut-wrenching pieces of music I have ever heard, and that section is easily one of my fav musical moments of all time.
The moment this song is over, it is followed by "I was born for this" at the game credits. Cue more water works right after that. 👍
Glad to see you and many people enjoy this song. 😇 Have a nice week. 👋
I remember back when Journey first came out and everyone was playing it so the multiplayer was always a thing. I loved the fact that you might find another player on this single player journey but you can’t talk to them, only spam one button to say like “over here!” and they’re in the credits as well
Almost always, people would run together to draw a heart in the sand at the very end.
Honestly, sometimes when life seems just too hard and bleak I start Journey and play through. It always feels like my soul got cleansed and restored a little bit. This game is beyond a masterpiece both visually, musically and thematically.
Have never played the game, but this music is top notch. Journey, Ori, and Gris have some of the most deeply emotional music out there. I love that you react and give in depth analysis on such a wide range of game music. It's made me want to play so many new games. Journey is at the top of the list.
Journey holds a special place in my heart. I have had the chance to speak with Austin a couple of times for some lengthy conversations about his career and music as a way to tell stories.
He has stated that it's both an honor and a shame that this score was the first video game soundtrack to be nominated for an academy award, since so much great music has been overlooked before his. He talks about how awards and recognition should never be your end goal in creative pursuit, but a new ground level to improve upon.
Such a great score, one that he wrote, in part, to be a cello concerto for his friend Tina Guo, the performer, to really bring her skills to the front and center. Both are really great inspirations of mine as a cellist and an indie composer.
Gosh I remember this game. It really is an experience, not a game in the traditional sense. Pure artistic emotion. I remember one of my playthroughs I was with the same person the whole time, another traveler, and I had to put the game down for a while to do something. When I came back, he/she was still there, sitting next to my character waiting for me. And this is like a 30-45 minute wait. It was magical. I felt touched.
Aww, that's super cool! That's really special. That's what Sky: Children of the Light feels like, to me, and I still really want to play Journey sometime, too ^^ I've heard, and am 100% sure it is, that it's a masterpiece, as Sky is, to me, too!
I always tear up when I hear this soundtrack. It's my belief we died on that mountain side, and Apotheosis is our soul shedding from its body, lifting up from death's dark limbo, and roaring up into the heavens, before we break through the dark storm clouds of our demise, and into the sunlight of heaven.
Journey and Shadow of the Colossus. The two most unforgettable gaming experiences I've ever had ever.
SOTC is a game I can handle replaying over and over. Journey is just another emotional beast altogether XD
100% agree. I would gladly add The Last Guardian to that list as well.
It's a fitting name for a track. Apotheosis is the process by which a mortal ascends to godhood and immortality. It's an uplifting process, and in many myths, the journey to and through apotheosis is hard and heavy, with much toil, leaving a weary mortal at the steps of godhood to crawl up it ever so slowly if only they can continue to pull themselves, one halting step at a time, into the land of immortality.
And that is what that final sequence of Journey feels like.
Journey is like nothing else out there. It's an experience and this piece certainly conveys and illustrates that. There is another emotional aming experience called, The Last Guardian. It's music also converys a lot of emotion, although different from the one in Journey. Highly recommend it, both the game and the soundtrack. Great video!
I feel like I comment this on every Apotheosis react video I see, but, much like the game itself, this song is arguably one of the best, most purely emotional music experiences I've ever had. Journey was truly something special and it doesn't feel like an exaggeration to say that I doubt I'd ever experience a game like that again.
I can only play this game once in a blue moon because of how it leaves me feeling in the end. This game guts me to my core and leaves me a mess until the end. It's so unbelievably raw that I'd be shocked if it didn't leave anyone who played it an emotional wreck afterwards.
Yea…..same. Due for a playthrough very soon
@@MarcoMeatball same here been a couple years i think and seeing this mightve just pulled me back
YES! Ive been waiting for you to react to the music from Journey
Playing Journey at launch unspoiled was experience like no other. The OST to this day is one of my most played albums of all time by far, and a decade later I still struggle to find anything quite like it. Nascence's cello specifically enraptured my entire soul
The whole scene for Apotheosis makes this one of the most beautiful sequences in video games, IMO, the music just fits perfectly and doesn't even feel like BGM, it's part of the experience, part of the Journey to the summit
Journey is an experience that just seems to heal the soul and put one at peace
I listened to a few compositions people had made for ancient songs like “Lament for Gilgamesh,” and as soon as I listened to this, I knew. I knew why Journey sounded like me. Like the Deluge and the return. Like the Exodus and the return. Like the Burning of our Temple and the return. Like our diaspora and what always follows. This was composed in the mood of the Levant, a halfway place between the endless power of Egypt and the inevitable endings of Mesopotamia, and a place my bedtime stories never stopped sounding like.
I play Journey everytime I feel sad or lonely. It's one of the few games I can stand to play in its entirety in one go, and one of the few I play with headphones on; usually I play games without the audio and put on a podcast or a video while playing, but for Journey I don't.
The soundtrack is just such a massive part of it that I can't bear not to listen to it as I travel; I've played it around 30 times or more, and still cry everytime me and my travel companion for the session reach the end. The way it ramps up as we glide down the dunes, the way it lingers as we explore the sea like structures near the end, the ascent in the tower, the ascent to the mountain, this music immerses me and drags me in. This music is incredible, and one of the things that can get me out of shutdowns when I'm not well.
This music means so much to me, just like the game, so I thank you for listening to it and reacting to it. I hope you have a good day.
This song. To this day, is one of the few tracks to actually make me openly cry. To this day I have no idea why, all I know was going through the game I get to that point and I'm am wiping thr tears away asking self why am I crying.
Its OST is a masterpiece of emotion and stands the test of time
This game made me cry, in a good way.
This. Did make me contemplate my life again. Thanks. Love it. 👍
When the music hits the 4:35 mark that sort of dissonant sound the strings make as they soar always felt like it signified the turning point from doubt to determination. As if a breakthrough was discovered and now we cruise for the rest of the ride.
Love it!
This 1( or 2) hour master piece of a game made me reflect on every aspect of my life...and this song in particular made me really apreciate BGM's more... And absolutely beautiful experience....
The beginning again, as you put it, helped me through the loss of a long-time friend. This game is very important to me in many ways, because of just that.
I might recommend trying Abzu and The Pathless. Austin Wintory did the music for both, and they both also have the same creative director as Journey, Matt Nava. The music is powerful in different ways, but similarly important.
I'm glad you said you knew this song well--this is basically the most relevant song for your channel.
And, I don't think it's about new beginnings or possibility--it's the opposite. Fulfillment, completion. The Traveler getting to experience the fullest version of themself, nothing between them and their goal, and then quietly reaching it.
Journey did and always will make me cry. Every time I come back to it, I experience it fresh.
i was really looking forward to you reviewing this since there was no way you didn't know about this. the music really sticks with us especially since there is no actual dialogue throughout the entire game and its all music, atmosphere and breathtaking visuals and all the storytelling happens through that. thank you for making me revisit this masterpiece
I knew this game for a very long time but never really gave a chance because i was young. Now i'm a older and more and more i find myself getting atracted to stories that are more poetic and contemplative. Your channel is really a gem.
One Music i would really like you to hear is The Rumble of Scientific Triumph from the Made in Abyss movie. The series has some really amazing music and the show overhaul is really good.
I would give so much to be able to experience Journey again for the first time. The emotional hit is never quite as profound as that first time. That said, listening to this amazing piece with intention here with you makes me appreciate it just that much more.
I remember hearing this track for the first time and being very emotional. Such an impactful piece of music in a beautiful game.
Always lovely to join someone in appreciating this gorgeous track. Have you heard the re-orchestration that was released this year? I was hesitant to listen at first because I worried that no new version could hold up to the original, and I was so glad to be wrong. It made me cry all over again.
Gonna listen to it :)
Oh man, Marco. I literally thought about recommending this just YESTERDAY because I realized that you never did react to this. journey's soundtrack as a whole--but Apotheosis in particular--is a modern masterpiece. It remains the only track that can make me cry just from listening to it and I don't mean I get a little misty-eyed. No, I freaking WEEP when I hear it. I'm writing this before even watching the video and I can't wait to hear what you have to say about it.
Whenever someone tells me videogames can never be art, I show them this game. Such a truly human experience that everyone can understand. Thankyou for reacting to this track :)
Did you know that Austin Wintory released an album this year with a complete reimagined score of Journey together with the London Symphony Orchestra. It's worth a try and you can listen to it for free on his YT channel.
I have and we’re gonna listen together in December
Some of the music from Ori: And the blind forest and Ori: and the will of the wisps, is very similar. The amount of emotion that the tracks have in combination with the way everything plays out on screen can only be done in games. Its one thing to watch a movie... but with games its so much different because its almost like you're LIVING the things happening on screen.
I watched the video now. You and I pretty much got into it in the same way while listening. But what you said about the track really struck a cord with me. Because to answer the question in your title: yes, it did make me contemplate my life. I first played Journey when it came out and it was a very important part of my life. Not long after, I made a choice to walk down a new path that would change my life and from there I started a decade of self-discovery and growth. This track was the soundtrack of that decade for me and I came back to it very often. Aside from its masterful composition, this track's sentimental value to me is unfathomable. And I am certain that I am not the only one who feels that way--this is one of those rare tracks that truly can just resonate with a person's soul to a degree that not many can.
You may already know this, but for the ten year anniversary of this game, Mr. Wintory did a reorchestration of many of the tracks from the game, including this one. If you have not listened to it, I implore you to do so because he managed to take this wonderful soundtrack and lift it to even higher heights. The whole thing is here on youtube, just search for "Traveler - a journey symphony." The youtube video also has commentary from Mr. Wintory. Listening to it feels like hearing it for the first time again.
I have the score. Don’t worry we will be watching it.
@@MarcoMeatball I'm looking forward to it!
The first sand skiing section is always the most beautiful
gosh, it was so special watching you react to this song. journey holds an incredibly important place in my heart largely because of what its music made me feel and continues to make me feel. i could never put into words what this song makes me feel, but watching you visually explained it. thank you for sharing
if you haven’t, the composer of journey’s soundtrack organized an entire symphony to orchestrate the entire album!! i would love to watch you react to the symphonic version of this soundtrack
Gonna!!
The company that makes this game also has one called Sky: Children of Light. The game has beautiful music and honest to god, it was hard to put down. I was riveted to the screen. And the story. Oh man. The game is just really hard to put into words.
Absolutely love this track! I’ve had it on my playlists since the game came out years ago!
Yeeees! Let's go! Thank you for honoring my request Marco! Although considering your reply to when I requested this, I think you had plans to react to some of the songs from Journey regardless lol :) Either way thank you!
have you checked out The Pathless and its OST? Also written by Wintory and the final song just brings me to a deep contemplative mood just as much as Journey, but from another direction.
I just bought it :)
All it took was just listening to one song from Journey, and I was hooked. Beautiful song.
Your commentary at the end really surprised me. I've played Journey multiple times and when you go through the journey (haha) again the patterns on your scarf progressively get more intricate.
Austin Wintory is truly a master of his craft. As soon as I heard the Journey soundtrack I bought the signed CD immediately.
You found the Journey soundtrack! YES! This OST got me through college studying at 3am.
This video is going to get me to actually sit down and play through journey. Also, I recommend the soundtrack from the game One Shot, specifically eleventh hour
The tension build up under your skin, looks like it will blown up like before, but in the process it dissipates and resolve gracefully, leaving you with nothing but weird but delighted tranquility. In the end, everything will be okay.
I cried every single time I played this game. It is pure beauty in everything
I haven't listened to Journey's OST for a long time, 1 hour ago I decided to listen to it, I finished listening to it, I refresh youtube, and this video shows up, what are the odds lol
I don't know the songs names mostly, but as soon as i heard the first few beats, i knew exactly what part of the game it's from
Whenever I feel like I need to cry a bit, I hear Apotheosis and then Naiscense. Austin Wintory really captured something sublime with this soundtrack, it outshines the game for me.
This track destroys me every time. It is heartbreaking and wonderful and it's lovely to know others feel the same way.
I think back to do many times, completing this game with a stranger who became a friend. It may be the last time we ever interact but we've been on this journey together. Hearts are drawn in the sand and we walk into the light together.
Journey is both a visual and an auditory masterpiece. In my opinion it is the best game of its genre. Even tho i played it years ago i still go back to the soundtracks and appreciate them every now and then.
Austin Wintory is a musical genius and you really should check out his other work on Giant Squid's games Abzu and The Pathless if you haven't already.
This was a fantastic game. Sadly nobody ever appeared to join me until the very end, I remember weakly calling out to him as I climbed the final stretch at the top hoping he'd see me behind him. I still don't know if he saw me as he got to the top.
Got a song suggestion from the anime Goblin Slayer called "Priestess and Her Profound Mercy" by Kenichiro Suehiro. *Not* an anime opening, but one of the more emotional songs on the soundtrack.
Can't wait for a playthrough of this, but idk if i'll handle a combined effort of Journey itself + Marco crying his eyes out :')
😂🥹 it has a very special meaning now since losing my father I think.
I love to watch your face while listening to these music tracks. I can easily see when you’re being swept up into it, and it increases my enjoyment even more to see them impact you as you listen.
Always a joy to watch
I appreciate that!
What can I say? Listening to this piece of music is a Journey in of itself. *wink wink nudge nudge stab stab*
A true pleasure to hear this one in live concerts.
I personally greatly recommend you check out the song "Fathomless Tomb" from the wonderfully crafted game Deep Rock Galactic.
The only thing I got to say to this music, is... wow. Just wow. I never played journey and will probably watch a full gameplay or play it myself, because the music is just fantanstic. I shed a tear listening to this not even knowing a thing about journey. But this piece of music made me happiness and exitement, as well as sadness and a deep feeling of longing after something already gone. I just wanna say that this was an exquisite track and I will definetly listen to this more often from now on. Thank you Marco for this again wonderful video and thanks to those who recommended this piece, because I really enjoyed it. To everyone who read my comment till the end, have a great day. :)
And also to those who didn't!
Welcome to the club! Journey's fans are a lovely bunch.
Marco, I followed your channel for the Genshin videos just like a lot of people, but I want to say that I hope you continue reacting and analyzing this kind of introspective, soulful game music as well. Two days ago I watched your A Beautiful Song video since Nier Automata's OST is one of my favorite of all time, and I didn't expect how personal your interpretation and feelings on that piece were. It was a pleasant surprise to see that side of you. I think this is another of those songs and analyses. Journey is another game and soundtrack that are special to me and now I feel emotional again with your words and the comment section, remembering my first playthrough.
My companion was only with me for half of the playthrough and I got lost in the snow but I continued, in awe of the part where we soar above the clouds free from attachments. It was pure happiness under the sun after that awful mountain. And when I reach the threshold at the summit, I found them again and I was able to walk until the end together. Everytime I listen to Apotheosis I feel again that joy of flying free and unbound followed by a melancholy for the kindness of a stranger who waited for me. Sigh, I feel like playing it again! Maybe I will tomorrow
Thank you for this beautiful comment. ❤️
Thank you! Was waiting for that one, cos Journey is an amazing game and the music, the music makes it a singular experience. So good, SO GOOD, who allowed it!!!
Agreed, this was an incredible experience when it came out
I was fortunate enough to buy the game on a sale and could experience the semi-coop aspect of it. Then right at the climax I crashed and had to finish it alone, was a little bummed out but. None the less it was a jaw-dropping journey.
NO BC I USED TO PLAY JOURNEY WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AND IT ALWAYS EMOTIONALLY STRESSED ME AND I DIDNT KNOW WHY
This is lovely, I was so invested in visuals while playing that I totally missed the music. Beautiful.
Journey was the first game I played during the start of the pandemic. It had been years since I’ve played a video game and needed something to distract myself from all the hard and sudden stay-at-home academic work. I didn’t knew anything about it. I was going myself through a personal journey and…this game made me face my fears and pain, in silence. It also made me face my past and the unnecessary guilt that came with it. That one can face the other side after a hard fight, that one can learn and atone and still make it to the other side and find purpose and peace (embodied in “Atonement” and “Apotheosis”). That, and much more was my lesson from Journey and it’s beautiful soundtrack. It holds such a special place to me that I go back to it every now and then, when I need to be gentle and kind with the struggles of life and its dynamics.
i remember playing Journey for the first time as a young teen when it first came out. It was the only video game my parents actually enjoyed watching me play!
Yeah Austin Wintory music, as well and the music direction/programming of this game are absolutely amazing
This game is an absolutely unforgettable game and music experience
I remember this game. Friend legit loaned his game to me just I can experience this.
I haven't touched upon Journey's music yet, but i have experienced Austin Wintory's music in a smaller game, which is Tooth and Tail. Would highly recommend a listen to each of the Faction commander's themes.
There's really nothing out there quite like Journey. It's a downright spiritual experience and never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
Will you also react to 'I was born for this' ?
Journey is... quite literally a journey, in both senses of the word. The music is but a cog in the beauty that is the game. I'll forever regret not being able to actually play it myself, but i've cried enough times just by watching OTHER people play it, so that should give you a measure of what this game can offer.
When Journey came out, I wasn't able to play it. I watched an Let's play and absolutely fell in love with it! I love the whole aesthetic of the game and to this day I wan't one of those cloaks myself 🤣 I really should sew myself one.
And the music? My comfort music! Especially when everything at work is spiraling downwards again, I just turn on this music and drown out the noises around me.
Also I can recommend the ABZÛ and The Pathless soundtracks, also both by Austin Wintory. They may not have the same feeling like the Journey soundtrack, but they help me get through stressful days and boost my creativity nonetheless!
Austin wintory is truly a gifted composer, see Pathless a game I played during the UK's lockdown in 2020. I played this game for the soundtrack, there a 4 boss tracks but the background music was calming and soothing 😌 👌🏻 wintory clearly knew what he was doing with this.
Go in hard and listen to path to salvation, you won't be disappointed ✨️
Marco: Ok subscribers. Time to listen to dope music and cry today.
Me, through tears: Y-yes Marco. T__T
I played it a long time ago, visually it is beautiful and the music makes you reflect a lot about life
I adore this game and its soundtrack. I think this was the first (and most profound) time I truly experienced a game as a piece of art. Haven't played it in a long time, but I still listen to the soundtrack regularly.
In this game everything is essential to the experience they tried to convey, music just as much as visuals and gameplay. The music is almost like a wordless narrator to this tale.
would like to see a no more heroes or devil my cry the older ones video
Listen, I have a Journey song as the alarm clock to wake me 😂😂 It's just sooo nice.
When a song makes you contemplate your life like that. Hmm. You know it's somethings that cuts deeper than words.
Journey will always be a very special game for me. I didn't play it myself, but I remember that evening when I was alone at home, and one of my favorite youtube channels uploaded a letsplay of this game. I watched it and it was a true journey of soul. Emotional and heartbreaking. It still makes me cry.
I would like to recommend you another soundtrack, which is also very beautiful and seems to me somewhat similar to Journey ost (from my unprofessional point of view OFC :) ) GRIS ost by Berlinist.
And maybe you would be interested in Sky: Children of the Light ost. Sky is created by thatgamecompany too, and it's main plot and idea are the same as Journey's. The difference is that Sky has multiplayer. Waltzing in the Rain is so beautiful. And Flight, which plays at the last part of the game (moment of Apotheosis in Journey).
Marco I Think That You Can See Sound And Hear Colors because This Is So Cool Man You're Spot On It Is About The JOURNEY
:)
Thanks for this video. I really really love this song :)
Journey really is one of the best indie games out there. You should probably check out ABZU too, I'm pretty sure it's done by the same people. In my opinion, its OST surpasses an already incredibly high standard that Journey has set.
This moment in the game was really awesome. I actually listened to the OST before I got to play the actual game, and boy that was an experience lol.
I love journey, it is incredible, another great example is Abzu, which is like journey but underwater, and if I not mistaken it’s the same team and composer from journey
Journey is one of those small games that shine among the giants of the industry. It's up there with the best and i'm so glad it's on PC now.
Journey's music reminds me a little about Rimé ❤
Both soundtracks make my soul dance and laught and love and cry and be angry and still enjoing both games!
I would love to know what you may thing about the music in Rimé ❤