Not a winner… hardly entertaining!

BEFORE YOU READ THIS REVIEW:

I am writing this review to help machinarium fans and non-machinarium fans make up their mind about buying this game. PLEASE judge this review by its quality AND NOT by your opinion of the game! aka, do not Thumbs-down just because you loved this game and i didnt! Respect the opinion of someone who paid for this game, and is providing a review to help gamers such as yourself learn about how others reacted to the game. (isnt that what reviews are about?)

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For those who played Machinarium before, this is NOT similar! and unfortunately this is NOT a good release from this developer. I love machinarium, I played it nonstop till i finished it, fell in love with the art, concept, puzzles, story, and music. Machinarium took a very little while to pick up, but when it picked up IT PICKED UP! I was truely attached to the story and very entertained by the puzzles.

So what about Botanicula? well, the puzzles are not logical WHATSOEVER, you WILL find yourself just clicking random objects on the screen so many times until a non-logical series of events happen that allow you to move on to the next level. You will find yourself very frusturated with the solution of each area or level, not because the puzzles are hard or anything, but because the game feels a bit lazy! The puzzles cannot be descirbed as "hard or easy" because you simply have to click random objects, such as a tiny flower that will spit out some other random object such a fly that will spit out a key! and i am not sure if you can call these tasks you have to complete "puzzles" because they dont require any thinking to resolve.

music is okay, sound effects are interesting. the developer tried to make the game cute i guess, for example when a bug flies it simply sounds like a man going like "buzzzzzzz" and not even trying to be realistic… but i guess thats the style of the game and i can respect that. It just wasnt my thing!

Overall, i did not like this game. not entertaining. it gets boring. I didnt feel like i was solving anything because of the random-ness of the "puzzles." You dont really participate in the game, you are simply there to let the game take its course and let it do its thing as you click and click over and over…..

Alex kassmya about Botanicula