Flower Review

 (Originally published to Glitchwave on 7/1/2021)

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Flower

Developer: thatgamecompany

Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment

Genre(s): Adventure

Platforms: PS3

Release Date: February 12, 2009

Flower is the video game equivalent of the plastic bag metaphor from American Beauty. Whether you found it moving and beautiful or stupid and contrived will directly reflect your opinion on this game. Personally, it had its moments of glory, but I can’t help but chuckle at the fact that the developers of this game tried to bite off more than it could chew here in terms of the level of depth they tried to achieve here.