Plantera Review

<p>I&&num;8217&semi;ve always thought that &&num;8220&semi;casual&&num;8221&semi; games never get a fair chance with &&num;8220&semi;core&&num;8221&semi; gamers&period; I think we feel threatened by their existence because we worry about them affecting &&num;8220&semi;our games&&num;8221&semi;&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s silly though&period; They really can co-exist&comma; but that&&num;8217&semi;s a different conversation for another day&period; <em>Plantera<&sol;em> is proof that there can be good &&num;8220&semi;casual&&num;8221&semi; games alongside all the big budget AAA releases that we are normally drawn to&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Plantera<&sol;em> is a clicker game&comma; and that isn&&num;8217&semi;t a bad thing&period; Sure&comma; we may be a bit resistant to playing these kinds of games but I believe that is due&comma; in part&comma; to how easy it is for developers to follow a checklist and churn these types of games out&period; It takes a lot more work and care to create a great game in this genre and that&&num;8217&semi;s exactly what has happened here&period; What we have here is a prime example of a more casual game that hits all the right notes and does so almost effortlessly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I think the first thing gamers will notice about this game is its incredibly cheerful and catchy soundtrack&period; It is so fitting and really helps compliment the mood that the graphics establish&period; This game is fun and that&&num;8217&semi;s all it sets out to do&period; The goal is simple&semi; you and your animal helpers build a garden and tend to it&period; As you grow more and more different plants&comma; more plants are unlocked&period; It is a very calm game and doesn&&num;8217&semi;t ever feel like too much&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re just managing plants&comma; watching cute animals help&comma; and warding off mean animals that want to reap what you&&num;8217&semi;ve sown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;109238" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-109238" style&equals;"width&colon; 691px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-109238" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03133930&sol;20160319150323&lowbar;1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Plantera&comma; VaragtP" width&equals;"691" height&equals;"389" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-109238" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em>Plantera<&sol;em>&comma; VaragtP<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>This game is best played in short bursts here and there but could still be fully enjoyed for long sessions as well&period; My average session was around thirty minutes before I felt as though I did enough for the day&period; The music keeps you moving and it encourages you to keep playing with new plants that get unlocked&period; The more you grow the easier it is to grow more&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s like capitalism if you&&num;8217&semi;re already rich and&comma; in this case&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s great&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The developer did a great job at including some key features that I think add to how easy it is to pick up and play this game&period; In the settings you can choose&comma; at any time&comma; if you want to play this windowed or full screen&period; I really enjoyed playing this while doing other things&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a great game to multitask with and I don&&num;8217&semi;t feel like any enjoyment is lost by playing this way&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s also nice being able to mute the sound and&sol;or music at any time in case your background tasks change at all &&num;8211&semi; or if you just want to play this in a small window at work&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Plantera<&sol;em> does a great job of bringing a casual and easily digested concept to the table and making it fun&period; I hope to see more games from this genre and of this quality in the future because it just goes to show that a good game is a good game&period; I would highly recommend <em>Plantera<&sol;em> to most gamers because&comma; no matter how much of a &&num;8220&semi;hardcore&&num;8221&semi; gamer you are&comma; you can easily enjoy this while playing a different game or even while doing something non-gaming related on your computer&period; The price is right too &lpar;not the TV show hehe&rpar;&period; This is absolutely a game you&&num;8217&semi;ll find yourself coming back to even after you think you&&num;8217&semi;re done with it&period; You can even delete your saved data from the settings and start it from the beginning if you ever decide you want to do that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Plantera<&sol;em> doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have any major flaws&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s just a solid casual game with a simple and addictive premise&period; Grow plants and have fun&period; We need more games like this in the industry&period; Next time you finish a long and story-intense AAA release you should stop by the world of <em>Plantera<&sol;em> and relax for a while &&num;8230&semi; you won&&num;8217&semi;t regret it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;