#as I absolutely adore Giant Squids' storytelling in their games

[little-paper-man]

Life still ain’t fair to me lately BUT! I do want to at least get part of my sword of the sea brainrot essay out there which also happens to involve my usual Journey brainrot.

 I know it’s mostly that I’ve basically become a Journey scavenger at this point, but I do find it highly suspicious that Journey’s name popped up in the trailer under the “visionary artists’ behind” part. because while it’s fairly common knowledge that Giant Squid was formed by employees splintering off of Thatgamecompany after Journey was made, even in GS’s trailers for their first game Abzu, Journey was not mentioned. Nor was Journey mentioned in trailers for The Pathless, just Abzu. But here, in a game that opens up with a Desert and mentions in the summary of “multiple cultures” its name pops up.

Now I’m not going to kid myself, as GS does not own the rights to Journey, that the wayfarers we know and love will just show up as they appear in their own game. However I do suspect that there’s at least going to be some form of them in SotS - whether that’s in a simple easter egg or repurposed designs/structures from old concepts from Journey’s development. I’m honestly not going to expect much.

No matter the slimness of it though, hooo boy does the brain go brrrrrrrrrrr at the thought!