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saucysala's flower (PlayStation Network (PS3)) review

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• saucysala wrote this review on February 16, 2009.
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Beautiful

There was a time when I first heard about Flower and it's whole abstract game design that I simply pushed it out of my mind as being a good idea. Now here I am, months later, giving this game 5 stars! Who'da thunk it?! The game succeeds mainly on an artistic level. The gameplay may be nice and easy, but it's nothing over the top revolutionary.

The gameplay is actually something that is seen in the most basic of games. You "collect" things, basically. But instead of collecting, you are touching flowers and they blossom to life. It helps that it gives you a boat load of sensory feedback. Every touch is followed by a musical note. The resulting bloom is also beautiful. When touch enough of them and complete a chain then something marvelous and beautiful usually happens.

I have to say, Brads review is also right. You'd think it would just be an open lovey dovey game about a flower's dreams.. but you'd be wrong. The game gets a little dark here and there, but that's actually really cool. It makes a cool relevant statement in a supremely georgeous way.

Play Flower for the experience, not for the challenge.

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It will simply blow your mind away 0
flower(PlayStation Network (PS3)) by dovey on February 28, 2009
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The power of love, motherfuckers! 0
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