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Clearing My Backlog #8
Plants vs. Zombies is a game that I’ve been playing on and off for the past 12 years, it’s been a huge part of my life, because it’s actually one of the three games that got me into this medium in the first place; and I’m so happy that it still holds up after all these years — unlike some of the other games I’ve revisited (I’m talking about you, Spider-Man 2). PvZ is filled to the brim with charm; whether it’s the simplistic, yet gorgeous art design, the catchy — and frankly beautiful OST, the varied and addicting gameplay, all of it just fucking works.
There’s so much freedom with how you can approach levels and all of the different modes, I’ve seen people play this game for hundreds of hours, which is a testament to how much variety it truly has. The survival levels in particular allow for a lot of experimentation with different builds, which I didn’t really bother with (past the achievements) because I’m content with leaving a game once I complete it, but it’s great that it has a lot of replay value for other people. My favourite mode was the minigames one; each level was so vastly different from the one before which forced me to reconsider my loadouts and to change my plants up — for which there are plenty of.
A lot of the issues with this game come in the form of technical and QoL stuff, which is to be expected because it’s an old game; but a big one is the lack of a 2x speed mode. Some levels happen to be pretty slow, so when you finish setting up all of your plants, you basically have to watch everything unfold for a while — without doing anything, which can get pretty boring, especially for your second adventure mode playthrough. I literally ended up installing cheat engine so that I could speed some of those levels up. It’s also a bit annoying how there aren’t any resolution settings, the fullscreen version looks like absolute shit, but then the windowed version gets minimized to a very small window, which is just hard to look at.
Overall though, Plants vs. Zombies manages to be an extremely satisfying and addicting tower defense game, with insane levels of variety, that oozes charm out of every aspect. So good.
Crazy Dave is an icon.
Playtime: 31.6 hours
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Clearing My Backlog #8
Plants vs. Zombies is a game that I’ve been playing on and off for the past 12 years, it’s been a huge part of my life, because it’s actually one of the three games that got me into this medium in the first place; and I’m so happy that it still holds up after all these years — unlike some of the other games I’ve revisited (I’m talking about you, Spider-Man 2). PvZ is filled to the brim with charm; whether it’s the simplistic, yet gorgeous art design, the catchy — and frankly beautiful OST, the varied and addicting gameplay, all of it just fucking works.
There’s so much freedom with how you can approach levels and all of the different modes, I’ve seen people play this game for hundreds of hours, which is a testament to how much variety it truly has. The survival levels in particular allow for a lot of experimentation with different builds, which I didn’t really bother with (past the achievements) because I’m content with leaving a game once I complete it, but it’s great that it has a lot of replay value for other people. My favourite mode was the minigames one; each level was so vastly different from the one before which forced me to reconsider my loadouts and to change my plants up — for which there are plenty of.
A lot of the issues with this game come in the form of technical and QoL stuff, which is to be expected because it’s an old game; but a big one is the lack of a 2x speed mode. Some levels happen to be pretty slow, so when you finish setting up all of your plants, you basically have to watch everything unfold for a while — without doing anything, which can get pretty boring, especially for your second adventure mode playthrough. I literally ended up installing cheat engine so that I could speed some of those levels up. It’s also a bit annoying how there aren’t any resolution settings, the fullscreen version looks like absolute shit, but then the windowed version gets minimized to a very small window, which is just hard to look at.
Overall though, Plants vs. Zombies manages to be an extremely satisfying and addicting tower defense game, with insane levels of variety, that oozes charm out of every aspect. So good.
Crazy Dave is an icon.
Playtime: 31.6 hours
Every Game I've Ever Played - Ranked (By Score)
Clearing My Backlog
2010 - Ranked