Botanicula

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Posted on: May 4, 2012

Absynthe.169

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Read the small print - and you'll be wonderfully surprised

Botanicula could have easily been a five star game if only it had been advertised a bit differently. As I prize myself to be quite the hardcore adventure gamer and having come to love Amanita Design through its wonderful, rusty and melancholic Machinarium, I was expecting Botanicula to be a game in the same trend of witty puzzles and shaking emotion. And indeed, when it comes to emotion, Botanicula never fails to deliver. The main characters are memorable, the art style surprisingly beautiful in its simplicity - it looks as if the producers have stolen some doodles from a kindergarden drawing session and have infused those scribbles with divine breath. The result is unforgettable. Combined with the playful music (which is sometimes veeeeery close to annoying but never quite passes that borderline) this makes Botanicula one of the most expressive games ever. It is amazing how little is needed to masterfully tell a story which goes deeper then even most triple A titles. I can't thus shake a peculiar feeling, as if I'm watching a cubist piece of art and I'm not sure if I should take it as it is, or dig deeper for hidden meanings and risk ruining the actual artistic message. When it comes to puzzles though, to understand Botanicula one must turn to the developer's website and READ THE SMALL PRINT: Botanicula is not a proper adventure game, but a point-and-click EXPLORATION game. Of course I myself, with the characteristic modern impatience, totally ignored this difference in nuance in the beginning and found myself (or rather my neurons) deeply disappointed. The game is rarely brain teasing and limits itself to encouraging spam-clicking all over the screen to discover the lush, green micro-universe. Some of the puzzles don't even make sense, or rather suggest that this botanical word has rules which rarely respect the physical world logic. Some puzzles are obviously developed with handheld touch screen devices in mind and feel kind of clunky with the mouse. But if you're ready to slow down, accept this wacky universe and witness it as a perpetual celebration of life over death and decay, you'll be facing one of the most artsy and good-taste games ever. So wipe the ADVENTURE game pattern from your mind and prepare to embrace a new kind of experience... Botanicula.

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Posted on: April 19, 2012

KainKlarden

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Best Amanita game so far

I can't call myself an Amanita design games fan. I always loved their style, always had the music from their games in my playlist, but the games themselves... Not really fond of them. First outings by the studio were full of random clicking on stuff and seeing what happens and it worked fine, as they were free. When they decided to sell Samorost 2 i was honestly surprised as paying for that kind of gameplay didn't feel like a good idea (although, i'm guilty of loving Monty Python & the Quest for the Holy Grail and it's weird moronic humor, i admit). Their second commercial release, Machinarium, didn't impress me much either. Apart from the usual beauty invisuals and sound, it was a very flawed "standard" adventure game that suffered from the old adventure games design decisions Amanita should've simply avoided. Botanicula is the best of both concepts combined. It has it's own share of randomness, most of which is completely optional. And it has some concepts usual for the "standard" adventure games. And, while having some slight flaws of those designs in several moments of the game, most of the time it simply works perfectly. And it creates a very special feel throught the game - one that does challange you from time to time, but almost never breaks the flow of the story and pacing. And what is much, so much more important, it makes you smile almost constantly. It's very hard to make the game playful and silly in a such way, that the player joins it in having fun and doesn't get frustrated or feel the that the fun is fake. Botanicula somehow understands that magic and, through art and sound as Amanita always did right, with gameplay not getting in the way this time but helping the magic, it makes you fall in love with it.

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Posted on: April 27, 2012

jbramley

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Pretty, but largely uninteresting.

This game is very pretty. The scene transitions feel smooth, the characters and environments are rendered well, and the animations are lovely. The music is good too, and the whole thing feels well-produced. However, as you can see from my rating, I'm fairly disappointed with the game as a whole. The puzzles often have solutions which just don't make sense, and the vast majority of them simply require you to pull on every knob and button until something happens. The only puzzle that has actually been difficult so far turned out to require me to move the mouse in a certain way. (I'm very nearly at the end, so I've seen most of the game.) It was hard because, for some reason, the required movement was only recognized in the "60%" screen size option, and when set to "100%" it didn't work. I enjoyed this game, but only because the narrative is engaging (if simple) and it is very well produced. That can carry it through for the relatively short time it takes to play, but I would lose interest if it were any longer.

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Posted on: April 20, 2012

xeniac

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A playable Piece of Art

Botanicula is not a classic poin't and click adventure. Amanita defined a new kind of Point and Click. This game does not need long dialogs to tell you a fantastic story. It does not need fancy 3D Shaders to give you an awesome graphic experience. You don't control the characters by them selves, instead you help the characters by messing with the environment - similar to a god-game. But the most outstanding part of the game is the atmosphere. The game submits every intended feeling with great animations and an outstanding soundtrack.

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Posted on: March 12, 2013

tinymousegirl

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Super-cute exploration game

Playing Botanicula felt like falling into a childhood dream, the kind where you wake up and feel like you might have really touched another world. It's not a challenging puzzle-driven game (although there are some puzzles), instead it's all about exploring a strange, adorable little world and poking at things - often with random and surprising results. I found it a bizarre and relaxing diversion from reality.

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