Plantasia

Plantasia is a game about gardening. But it’s not a game about regular gardening, that would be way too boring. Instead it’s about some fairy who needs to grant just one wish to graduate Fairy School (or something else equally inane), but the person she’s assigned to will have none of it! He’s much too busy to have a wish fulfilled, so to get rid of her he offhandedly wishes that his garden wasn’t a disgusting weed-patch. But the young fairy-in-training is strong! She will prevail! She’ll use her magic fairy powers, fairy trowel, and her fairy watering can to grow weird little flowers with faces on them. Flowers that can be harvested for magic points. You have to get a certain point total to clear the level, but you also have to use the points to buy upgrades, flower seeds, and the like. It’s a delicate balancing act.

Plantasia

This game is kind of like a gardening version of SimCity, except instead of millions of Sims, you’re controlling the lives of a few dozen plants at a time. It was kind of fun for a while, but I got bored with this game after two levels. It didn’t really do anything for me other than satisfy my ‘frantically click all over the place’ impulse. But if that’s your thing, then go for it.

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