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Thatgamecompany's new game Journey has been out for about a week and a half. My friend keeps talking about it and it's all over the PSN store so it's hard to get away from it. I wasn't very impressed from what I saw, and I've never played the other games from Thatgamecompany. I know they're different, but that's about it. But, my friend was playing it and he wanted to try to get a trophy, and trophies are my thing. So I dropped the $15 on it. I didn't really know what to think of it, since it looked a little boring to play. But...I'll go through what my final thoughts were.

The biggest con for this game was the price versus game play. It's a 2 hour game if you don't hunt for trophies, and that's being generous. That's about $7 per hour. Pricy for a game. I expected to beat it, and not look back as well. But then again, I trophy hunt. So that adds time for me also. Either way, a short game...

When I began, it was sluggish. I didn't really know what to think. The controls felt a little clunky but I trudged on. I tried to play online with my friend, but it wouldn't work. You can't choose who you play online with. Randomly, people will just join you out of the blue. Which is a little weird. You can't communicate with them, you don't even know their PSN ID so you can't send messages. All you can do is hit a button to make a "bloop" sound. Unless you perfect morse code and they know what you're doing/understand it, you're out of luck. I ended up running into 10 people my first time through. Very random, but kind of neat. The controls get a little better as you collect symbols. They give you the ability to semi-fly as you get more. If you have a coordinated partner you can fly indefinitely, reacharging each other with the charged up version of the "bloop" sound I mentioned previously.

Right before the last stage, my friend and I gave up trying to play together. I like to make the "bloop" sound, and when I did it suddenly appeared on his

I went to Fry's in Atlanta today, and I was very disappointed. My Live subscription runs out in 15 days and I thought I'd pick up a year subscription card and it said $39.99 Limit: 1 per customer. I thought "Awesome! $20 off!" So I go on to the cash register and she says "$59.99." and I'm like wha? I had to go take a picture of the tag and show her because she didn't believe me.

So, she goes and gets a manager. They want to charge my card for $60 then refund back $20. If I do this, because I'm out of my general shopping area and the transactions are being manipulated visa will lock down my card and it's a hassle to get visa to unlock it. It's a security issue. They wouldn't actually price match, which they say they do. So I ended up not getting the card out of frustration.

Also, they refused to give me the managers number so I could speak to him about it. That was my 2nd venture to Fry's and probably my last since it's about 2 hours away.