
Talk about a palette clenser after playing 30 or more minutes of Killzone 2. Sony are classiying thatgamecompany's upcoming PlayStation Network title Flower in the "Zen Gaming" genre, which could also be applied to the developer's last title, flOw.
It may seem like a silly marketing tag, but it's surely appropriate -- Flower is more of a decompressing and relaxing experience than it is an actual game. The goal of the title is to enter and restore beauty to dream worlds, acting as the wind to sweep up flowers and petals that cause different reactions in the environment.
By tilting the SIXAXIS left and right, I was able to control "the wind," targeting blooming flowers in otherwise dead fields of grass. Sweeping over yellow flowers would cause red flowers to bloom, and I'd have to tilt the controller around to touch them in order to cause the grass to bloom and have that area come to life.
Each flower I touched had a slightly different effect on the environment and was also attached to a different musical sound. By sweeping areas, not only would I bring the world to life, but I'd also caused the relaxing music to swell. In a smart move, Sony had headphones attached to the demo unit, and I was able to hear the subtle sounds of the wind and rustling of thousands of blades of grass as I swooped by.
The "dream" sequence was complete when I restored beauty to the entire area, in effect making "the flower" happy. While one of the game's producers tried to explain that the dreams were puzzles of some sort, this first dream was fairly linear and required little to no thought. As a "game," I'm not sure how successful Flower really will be (an argument that still plagues thatgamecompany's other title, flOw); but as a "zen" experience, I don't think there's anything else like it on the PS3.
As part of our E3 coverage, be sure to check out Sony's E3 trailer of Flower.
This game looks very very interesting.
first they gave us flow,now flower.
what's next flowerer?
BTW this game is sexy
I love my Playstation 3 so much. I look forward to 'chilling out' and playing this one. When's it out?
Nick Chester, you are always the biggest gentleman on Dtoid. Those are my feelings. Hope you had fun at E3.
hahaha, I justw atche dthe trailer and from my totally relaxed state was taken straight to the opposite end of the spectrum by that annoying "Helloooooooooo!?" banner ad. Bad feeling.
I'm buying it for the visual experience alone. It looks amazing.
This honestly makes me wish I had a PS3.
Sounds like the next Electroplankton, or am I the only one who sees a connection?
Cloud was awesome. simple visually detailed games = win
looks interesting and will most likely be on the list of games I look out for this summer/fall
Flower caught my eye during the press conference, it seemed so directly counter to the rest of the videos they were showing. This actually looks like something I'd buy if I had a demo of it first. Guess I'm spoiled by XBLA, but there's been several games on XBLA I would have bought had it not been for the demo showing me how asstastic it was.
I didn't find flOw as relaxing as this one looks, I'll probably buy this game if it's about $5.99
I know my wife wants it.
I'm with the bunches of people for the visual experiences as it looks calming!
i don't care about calming soothing experiences.but i do like original,fascinating, artistic stuff and this game is looking to be all of them. getting this as soon as possible. the psn to me still hasn't strayed from the artistic and original content. i mean we fncking got tori-emaki, echochrome,pain. i just love the quality of this network..(fanman's heart implodes)
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