![]() ![]() ![]() Gameplay is a lot of fun in this game, with clever little puzzles to keep you scratching your head throughout, but not so difficult that you end up pulling your hair out trying to solve them, striking a perfect ballance between entertainment and puzzle logic that helps keep the game progress flowing. Not just the sound, but the graphics are wonderfully detailed in all the places it matter too, the characters are imaginative and at times some of the other inhabitants of this world made me think of Terry Gilliams work in Monty Python, the same can also be said of the animation, it makes you want to click on every leaf, creature and flower again and again just to see what it will do, thanks to there being hundreds of unique animations in this game, which means you really never know what is going to happen next, giving you plenty of fun surprises from the most unlikely of objects. With a stunning and creative soundtrack courtesy of the band DVA, with well scripted and organic music that springs to life as you perform various actions and travel throughout the tree, not to mention the creative use of sound effects, which as the best of time sound like a child making his own sound effects, but it helps create a fun and imaginative tone that really suits the games creative environments and characters. Point and click adventures don’t get the attention they deserve these days, with game development studios putting focus on action and adventure, so its amazing to see so much love going into what has been often declared in the past, a dead genre, so much so that I doubt it was ever a dead genre, more just a forgotten one. Wandering from branch to branch presents you with various puzzles and challenges for you to help them through, totalling in at over 150 different detailed locations / scenes to explore and enjoy, such is the chilled out style of this game that you can’t help but get lost in this very magical and occasionally dark world that exists on their tree, exploring the world of the tiny insects and bugs that resides in and around it, discovering enemies, allies and creatures in need of your help along the way. This week I have been lost in the world of Botanicula, a bright and colourful Indie title from the talented developers at the Amanita Design game studio, who already have a place in my heart for crating their previous masterpiece Machanarium, another similar style title, which also featured the same creative point’n’click gameplay mixed with hand drawn computer animated graphics. Botanicula brings you into the world of not one but five main characters, Feather, Lantern, Poppyhead, Mushroom and Twig, each with their own unique personalities and skills, who are on a journey to save a tree from the life sucking evil spider-like creatures that have started to over run the tree. ![]()
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