Photosynthetic Fun!

It's Street Fighter 4 release day and Amazon still hasn't shipped the pre-order for my collector's edition. Jerks. To occupy myself (as if the 20 other games I have lying around unfinished aren't enough), I downloaded Flower off the Playstation Network.

It's a casual game, but it's stonily hypnotic. You're a flower petal and you float on the breeze, collecting other petals. That's basically it in a nutshell. It most resembles fLow, except nothing is trying to kill you and you're not trying to eat anything either. There isn't even a time limit. It's passive gaming but somehow, it's appealing in a run-through-an-open-field-like-The-Sound-of-Music kind of way. The visuals help immensely. Although I only played the first level, each blade of grass is a textured, shiny, glistening green.

Is it worth $10? Not if you're looking for hours of naughty Lost and the Damned fun, but late at night, it's a terrific little interactive screensaver to wind down to.