I have always held a great appreciation for anthologically structured artworks, especially when these bring together a wide variety of perspectives and styles to a same theme: Gardens of Vextro, while extremely simple and handcrafted in nature, managed to send me back to the experience of the animated anthologies I love most, from Fantasia to Genius Party, and it is something that in the gaming sphere I had not yet had the opportunity to experience.
The great strength of this game I think is precisely this structure of it, which works extremely well in promoting even absurd and bold ideas from many different creative minds, that would probably remain discarded if taken individually.
Unfortunately, I can't say that every contribution brought together in this work impressed me, and perhaps I expected something more in strictly qualitative terms, but taking this collective work for what it is, which is a bouquet of flowers constructed from fragments of ideas, more or less successful experiments, personal experiences, but also traumas and the need for self-expression, I cannot help but be very grateful that something like this exists, of which I hope to see more and more in the future.

Reviewed on Jun 04, 2023


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