
If you gave me a week of time I still wouldn't be able to fill it with enough good things to say about flower. This is the cleverest, most beautiful, most evocative game I think I've ever played. Metal Gear Solid 4 actually brought a tear to my eye at one point and I believed that no video game would ever better that. flower gave me goosebumps, made me smile, made my stomach flip, the whole works.
I understand if people don't like this game. That's fair enough for those people. But this game grabbed me, pulled me in and shook me up for the 90 or so minutes it takes to complete. It looks beautiful, it sounds even more beautiful and it has more scripted, epic moments than I ever expected it would.
The controls are perfect, the concept... bafflingly amazing and the ideas it raises, just, so cleverly done. For a game that never uses speech or text it raises and answers a thousand questions.
"Poetry in motion"? Sure I was looking forward to this game but I scoffed when I heard the developers say that. Right now, I want to actually meet the people behind this game and personally thank them for it.
I hated fl0w but this is something else. Truly wonderful. For the first time I believe games can do more than entertain us.
I urge you to give this a go. You might not like it and I understand why. But you owe it to yourselves to at least try it. Play in a dark room with good quality headphones or your speakers pumped.
Oh man...
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