Loved it. Same as you though, I didn't find it to be quite as awesome as Flower, but I attribute a lot of that to it not being quite as astoundingly different as Flower. Flower was totally out of the blue, I had nothing to go on except the vague recommendations of a few reviewers that it was not to be missed and totally different than other games. I think that gave it a significant "wow" quality. With Journey I kinda knew what I was getting into beforehand, which probably lessened the impact. Also the gameplay itself is more conventional than Flower. Humanoid, jumping, platforming, collecting trinkets for powerups, etc.

I'd offer to play with you, but the Journey multiplayer system is totally random. I'm frankly very surprised you haven't run into anyone though. I played through it the day it released for the PlaystationPlus presale, and in the credits it lists the screen names of the people you ran into or travelled with. I think I had 6 or 7 just in the one playthrough, and none of them were names I recognized. If you were moving quickly instead of meandering and taking it in, you may have run right past them though. You don't get any kind of notification or anything, they just kind of spawn into your game and you wander across them. I found that I came across several of them by listening for the little magical/musical pings you can make. You can often hear them if you can't see them.

I will say the last level has a totally different emotional impact travelling with someone rather than going it alone.