Posted on: February 16, 2019
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A picture book with poor puzzles
Botanicula is visually very pleasing. So much so, that you can almost call it romantic. The overall story is about a few seeds, a mushroom and a branch on a mission endangered by evil black spiders. The visuals add to the storytelling by bring you along various interesting places and organisms. The gameplay resolves around puzzles and finding a few items, and it isn’t good. You might say that the puzzles are all unique. You start with a few visual clues and see an imaginative egg surprise unfold thereafter. This is uniqueness in the wrong way. Often what really happens is that the unforeseen destroys any puzzle logic. There is no mechanic that the game teaches. It has no difficulty curve such as puzzles with increasing complex based on some game logic. It offers no challenge or puzzle satisfaction, except persistence to move towards the end. For example, in one puzzle the branch can grow to five times its size to cross a cavity. This “growth” cannot be used and isn’t repeated in any of the other puzzles. It feels cheap and cheated. Something like a bad b-movie about penguins that escape through the intervention of an alien artifact causing the penguin-eating polar bear to teleport to the Sahara desert. Or more true to Botanicula, you enter a hole in a tree and the game tells you that it wasn’t the solution by flying you back from the other side of the screen holding the legs of a gigantic insect. Imaginative: yes, game: no.
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