It’s not fairly Journey (but), however you are able to do so much worse for chill-out gaming than Flower, thatgamecompany’s first large artsy hit. Originally unique to the Playstation three many moons in the past, it’s out now on PC, and out there on many of the large shops – sure, even Epic’s. Players steer a tumbling swirl of flower petals round an impediment course of hills, wind generators and the occasional bit of commercial badness. By touching different flowers and inflicting circles of them to bloom, the world will get brighter, the petal-storm will get larger and the music swells louder. See the launch trailer swirl by beneath.
Flower has the weird honour of being a capital A ‘Art’ game. It’s official – the Smithsonian American Art Museum says so. I used to be by no means fairly so taken with it, however I need to say that this new model seems to be pretty, and may management a bit of higher than what I performed again within the day on PS3. The authentic model of the game was one of many few to make use of the controller’s tilt sensors to steer. It wasn’t horrible, however I’d actually be extra relaxed simply shifting a stick. It’s a really mild game – a showcase of sights and sounds with minimal problem, up till the ultimate stretch the place it’s simpler to journey up.
It’s testomony to Flower’s artwork path that it nonetheless seems to be completely pretty now, a full decade after launch – this additionally pushes the system necessities all the way down to an previous i3 with an previous laptop computer GPU. Thatgamecompany sadly missed the 10th anniversary of its February 12th launch date, ten years in the past, however valentines day appears each bit as legitimate. Perhaps you could possibly give a single, digital flower as a present to a particular somebody, if the choice to ship a bouquet by hand isn’t an choice. It’s a pleasing shock both approach. It’ll possible get misplaced within the mad swirl of releases right now and tomorrow, however possibly that’s okay – it’ll simply float away on the wind.
Flower is out now for £5.19/€5.69/$6.99 on Steam, GOG and Epic. More grounded followup Journey is due on PC ‘soon’. It’s revealed by Annapurna Interactive.
