Flower

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Developer: thatgamecompany (TGC)
Genre: Action
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: NR

Reviewer: Eric

Flower is the type of game that will either blow your mind away or make you wonder why you just spent $10 for a game like this. Flower is like no other game on the PSN store right now and that for sure is a good thing. No other Playstation 3 game right now offers as much as Flower does for such a small price.

This game will leave you with a new sense of mind during the first few minutes of gameplay. A game that looks and play this well makes you wonder why most Wii games don’t feel this good. Yes Flower makes you use the PS3 controller to control again but this time around it works right. You control a flower petal and there is nothing that can stop you.

Control a flower petal? That’s right; Flower is like no other game out there, literally. You play the dreams of different plotted plants, that is the whole purpose of the game. It might not sound like much but the gameplay is really fun!

You go around the different dreams/stages collecting petals. The more petals you earn the more of the actual stage you’ll unlock. Sooner or later you will come to the end of a stage, though there are secrets throughout the game that adds more gameplay to Flower.

Flower has some of the most impressive graphics, if not on the entire system then at least as a downloadable release. As beautiful the scenery is at first you will be blown away when things change as you progress through the stages. Landscapes will change from dying mounds to flourishing green areas.

The challenge to the game is to collect every petal which is as easy as it sounds. The only real challenge to this game is figuring out the riddle-like trophies. If this wasn’t in the game then Flower would be way too simple.

Final Verdict
Flower controllers way too good that it is scary. This is the kind of game that should be purchased by everyone that owns a Playstation 3. Ten dollars for this game is well worth the price. My only real problem here is the challenge, but trust me some of those trophy descriptions might add an extra hour or two of gameplay.

Rating
9 out of 10