Review: Plantera (3DS)

In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.

Pros:

• Nice pixel graphics.
• Download size: 120 blocks.
• Own in game achievements.
• Easy controls with the game using touchscreen predominately but some face buttons can be used in menu choices.
• Clicker game play. In other words the game can actually play itself.
• Game is played on the bottom screen, Top screen shows level bar, And a tally chart of what plants/trees and bushes you currently have. Shows money and any extras like multipliers etc.
• Four animals to place in your farm. They can drop items worth more gold than others. Pig for example can dig up one of a handful of items all varying in gold amount.
• Five tree types to unlock and plant. Fruit will drop once ripe, You can of course click on them before that. And helpers will collect any drop fruit that you dont click yourself.
• Five bush types to unlock and plant.
• Five plants to unlock and plant.
• Scarecrow and dog can be purchased and they will ward off intruders.
• Several intruders will attempt to steal your fruit! From moles,Ladybugs to wolves and foxes.
• Multiplier: You can purchase upgrades to increase the amount of gold you get per click on all items in your garden.
• Alarm clock: This sets how long your helpers will work after you turn the game off. You increase it by the hour.
• Stupidly easy to get into too.
• Addictive.
• Earn EXP and level up to unlock new items and improve current unlocks.
• Unlock extensions to your level. You have three arrows you can click that sends you to the far left, far right or centre.

Cons:

• Feels good at the start but it soon feels like you have seen and done everything, Basically I’m saying it lacks any real depth.
• The music is not good, It will drive you to the mute button so fast.
• Feels a bit like the helpers don’t always do “help” they seem to spend more time just walking backwards and forwards.
• Slowdown when you get further in and the fruit builds up.
• No 3D implementation which is a huge missed opportunity.
• Got rid of the bonus Knight. This guy would randomly appear and each click on him would net you gold.
• Birds and foxes are way too common and it just feels like its too much and almost makes it feel a bit like a arcade version of Plantera.