Flower Priced, Has Seven -- Not All Sunny -- Levels

Via 1up.com:

"In a press demonstration today, thatgamecompany co-founder Jenova Chen gave us a sneak peek at the latter half of Flower, addressing some of our curiosities, while adding a few new mysteries. In December, we got to play through the first three levels of the PSN title, which has you flying around in the dreams of flowers, collecting petals and beautifying the environment. You can read our impressions here and watch us talk about it on The 1UP Show. But, like many of you out there, we were curious what came next -- the first two levels are quite similar in nature, with the third just hinting at things to come. Will Flower have more than four levels? Do you get to do more than fly around in the sunshine? Now we know the answer."

[DJ]

I'm buying it, fo sho!

[panasonic23]

hell no $10 is too much for this $3 and i buy it

[El_Colombiano]

You need a PS3 to buy this.

[PataponKnight]

OWNAGE!!!

[Bathyj]

Yeah, what would you do without that extra 7 bucks.

[PataponKnight]

February is full of win!

[vdesai]

Buy school lunch for 14 school days of course. lol

[ThanatosDMC]

Bubbles up.

[Doppy]

About what I expected price wise, but I didn't expect the game until March. You know Sping and Flowers and all that good stuff.

[phosphor112]

Some "relaxation" games I want to get are
flOw
flOwer
Generic Shooter..or w/e its called lol, you know what im talkin about.

[thereapersson]

Everyday shooter? That game is really fun, but it gets HARD on the later levels!

Definitely worth the purchase, though.

[ActionBastard]

Looking forward to this one!

[PirateThom]

I think this will be a good game to relax with.

[Cajun Chicken]

...Jumanji?

JUMANJI!!!

[PataponKnight]

wtf?

Edit: LOL, just noticed the avatar

[Zeevious]

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Would you mind rolling a Five or Eight?

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[NJShadow]

This is gonna be an easy buy. BEAUTIFUL GAME.

[thebudgetgamer]

games can be art

:)

[Philip J Fry]

Didn't Braid prove that last year?

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Okami proved it.
Prince of Persia proved it.

Braid...did not.

[Kleptic]

not to mention flow, which was made by these flower people...

[Philip J Fry]

My point exactly, it has already been proven in the past. Braid was the most recent example I could recall.

[thebudgetgamer]

flower just gives more cred to games as art

:)

but i dont think braid or prince great games but not really art.
but art is subjective though its what you make it

[JOEdANGEL]

$10 is really pretty reasonable. I might get this when it comes out.

[pippoppow]

It will be nice departure from the common norm. Would like to see a game like linger in shadows with more gameplay elements in it but appreciate the effort. Devs need to keep pushing the boundaries of their creativity and imagination to give gamers fresh, new, origional gaming experiences.

[CryofSilence]

Well worth the price.

[poeo]

damn, 10 dollars? hmm.. i still can't resist lol. i need some flower action, getting bored with shooting baddies in the face (not in Fallout 3 though!).

btw, despite it's rather simple looks, i wonder how much does this push the PS3? will it have like tens of thousands of objects (plants and whatnot) on screen at once? for example Super Stardust HD even though just a small PSN game, pushed the PS3 pretty hard with massive amounts of particles and stuff going on at any moment with no slowdown (still impressive to this day if you play it).

[Kleptic]

dude yeah...SSHD, especially with the solo pack and endless with the nukes...is simply incredible...its BY FAR the best looking arcade game i've ever seen in that area...Geometry Wars is a joke in visual comparison...

although...its still not the best looking downloadable game for the PS3...as WipeOut HD is even more nuts...that game on a 1080p television leaves most people speechless, especially when they find out its a $20 downloadable deal...

[poeo]

heh indeed, Wipeout HD is some serious eye candy. gameplay is insanely addictive too.. i cant recommend that game enough.

trophies are a b*tch though, there is no way in hell i can ever get 100%. stuck at 61% :(

[thereapersson]

I know, some of those trophies are a pain in the ass! Like the one where you have to pilot using nothing but airbrakes in Zone mode. F'ing HARD as hell!

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Have to get it.

[Gambit07]

This game will change the perception of gaming and what a game can actually be.

[anubis12]

wow this game looks so cute. its even called flower how cute.

[poeo]

cute? more like beautiful.

[Bathyj]

Shame I cant run through that grass with my Eyepet. Yet.

[Lon3wolf]

The price is about right if you look at in scale of full price titles some of which last 10-15 hours, so $10 for 3 hours is ok. Not sure if it is a game for me yet though.

[thereapersson]

There was this one level where you were flying through this green field, and above was an overcast sky, with gray, voluminous clouds. There were these towering windmills in the background, and I think you could even fly amongst them.

The concept is very unique and artistic; you get to experience an artists interactive rendering of what it's like when flowers dream. Such a brilliant concept, IMO, and one that goes beyond the realm of "standard gaming". Maybe that's why it's still hard for some people to accept the game for what it is, and how it plays.

Personally, I will be buying this the day it comes out. It's one of my most-anticipated PSN titles next to Savage Moon and Fat Princess.

[xg-ei8ht]

I heard there was a game where you had to take off ladies panties, by using the six-axis.

Please say it's true.:)

[pixelsword]

...but the smaller games are looking more appealing if I download at all.

[Clap Your Hands]

From the article:

- At the demo, all levels were present, except for the last. And as a bit of a teaser, Chen let us in on a twist: The final level won't be a flower.

- The sixth level, perhaps unsurprisingly, takes place in the city, with you flying through the sunlit environment, erecting brightly colored buildings instead of birthing verdant flower patches.

- But the fifth level's unexpected. It's dark and stormy, with massive criss-crossed metal structures littered around a wasteland. This is, as Chen describes it, a nightmare. Electricity flows through the tortured pieces, and when you fly too close, they zap and burn you, causing you to lose petals. You can't "die" per se, but the more petals you lose, the slower you become -- and the jarring effect the zaps have on the screen is sufficiently off-putting. So far, this looks to be the most "gamey" level of them all.

- And, though you can play through the game without collecting every petal, Chen says those who take the time to fully complete each level will obtain the "good" ending. We can't wait to try out the final not-flower level come February 12, to the tune of $9.99.

This game sounds and looks so god damn cool.