Q 01/05

In Journey, what does the cloaked traveler's trailing scarf, marked with glowing runes, let the player do?

A) Fly briefly

B) Turn invisible

C) Breathe underwater

D) Freeze enemies

Answer · why

A) Fly briefly

Fly briefly is all it allows: each leap drains the scarf's glowing runes, and drifting strips of red fabric top them up again.

Q 02/05

In Journey, what is the only way two players who meet in the desert can communicate with each other?

A) Typed text chat

B) A musical chime

C) Voice chat

D) Hand gestures

Answer · why

B) A musical chime

A musical chime is all they share: speech and text were left out so that preconceptions could not come between two strangers.

Q 03/05

Journey's creative director Jenova Chen took his English name from a character in which classic role-playing game?

A) Chrono Trigger

B) The Legend of Dragoon

C) Final Fantasy VII

D) Secret of Mana

Answer · why

C) Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII supplied the name while Chen was in high school, because he wanted one that would be unique among thousands of Jason Chens.

Q 04/05

The Journey soundtrack was the first video game score ever nominated in a visual-media category at which awards?

A) The Oscars

B) The Emmys

C) The Golden Globes

D) The Grammys

Answer · why

D) The Grammys

The Grammys shortlisted it for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media in 2013, a category usually filled by film scores, though it did not win.

Q 05/05

Jenova Chen said that 3 of the 25 people who tested Journey did what on completing the game?

A) They cried

B) They applauded

C) They restarted it

D) They fell asleep

Answer · why

A) They cried

They cried, Chen revealed in a 2013 conference talk; the team had spent an extra year reworking the game because it did not yet stir the emotions they...