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Botanicula eyball1/27/2024 It’s easy to sum it up,really – you’re seeing this world through the eyes of a child.īotanicula transported me right back to my six-year-old self, who was rather fond of playing the Living Books series on CD-ROM. Each static screen of Botanicula felt like a fresh discovery, giving me a chance to explore the microscopic world of bugs and buds as I did in my infancy under my mother’s gaze. There’s a great sense of a tactile relationship between you and the game through this. Botanicula is not best described as a point-and-click adventure as it transforms your grasp on the mouse into a means to reach into its world and grab, yank and prod. Human voices are distorted in choruses strings and horns wail as if telling a tale and a whole range of unusual instruments hearken back to a folk music tradition, making the environment and any resources at hand resonate with a sound to fuel the imagination. The music and sounds within the game really are outstanding – with every living thing that inhabits the screen assigned an organic sound rendered in a more characterful way. The splashes of color across the game’s fruitful and artistic scenes fascinated my eyes, from the pastel greens and mild yellows to the contrasting blacks and muddy browns of the game’s later stages. As such, I found that the three senses that can be affected by a computer game were being spoiled rotten. Though the five ‘heroes’ have a home to save, their main purpose seems to be to play with you, and the whole game is based around that concept. The five protagonists of Botanicula quickly became my best friends as I shared their victories and their close shaves with death, and was soon wishing to outstretch my palm towards the monitor so that they may hop on and bring a rarely seen joy into the room.īotanicula captures the act of play in a most intuitive way. They’re a mad bunch, and playful too, but fearless in their strive for adventure, and they carry with them the greatest team morale you ever did see. Back down on Earth, though, in a particular tree, there are five friends who I had to help fulfil a foreseen prophecy – to plant a seed fallen from the sky in order to save their home from a parasite attack. It didn’t need to grab my cheeks and force my stretchy lips into a crescent moon it simply propelled me up to the real moon in order to see a surrealist’s interpretation of the first moon landing. Alas, it is just a game and, as such, is here to be judged and not to establish an imaginary home within, though, given the chance, I’d soon move into this tree-dwelling neighborhood.īy far the greatest achievement of Botanicula is its ability to spread a smile. It was inviting indeed – a journey into what seemed to be a completely separate world. Before even playing Botanicula, I was greeted during installation with a cute chorus from the five tree friends I was to become so attached – it was but a glimpse into the sprightly sounds and delightful, childish veneer awaiting me. From a seed can sprout a million things, and given that this particular seed helms from the bowels of Amanita Design, you can expect those things to be extraordinary.
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