The Flower Collectors

Rough around the edges, but still manages to execute well enough on its core premise and gameplay loop. Yeah, the animations are rigid, blend trees and a few extra animations would have gone along way to increasing immersion, but the core idea and story of the game is what made it enjoyable. Starting off, I was not a fan of the protagonist, they did a decent job selling him as a grumpy ex-cop who worked under a dictator right wing police force. It would have been nice to have a bit more time, or something more to further show his perception change throughout the years, but within the chapters they did a decent enough job. Having the game spent on the balcony looking over the street is a premise I have enjoyed in other titles. A few times however I was a bit disappointed; for example, it would ask the player to guide a character through the street avoiding the police. I would tell them when the coast was clear. As they were moving from point A to B, the police would turn around and the character would CLEARLY walk in front of the police. These faux stealth parts were a bit of a bummer. The tension at moments were good. Unravelling the mystery was engaging, albeit completely predictable from the start as to whodunit. I do wish, they were a little less n the nose about that, but in any case for a short 2.5 hour long game, I enjoyed my time on this old mans balcony.

This game took me 3 hours to finish it i didn't 100% the game since didn't have much time but i must say if you like games with anthroanimals this game perfect for you i highly recommend getting it while its on sale or when its on sale i got it on winter sale 2024 and im so happy i got it amazing story very good visual style i really like that you are ex cop spying on your neighbours,people to then witness murder alr i wont spoil more. Gameplay: 8/10 could be better i had some issues with mouse like it was lagging my mouse little bit. Story: 10/10 amazing story loved it Visuals: 10/10 for game from 2020 its really amazing visual style love the graphics hehe Controls: 8/10 had only problem with mouse also uh the mouse sensitivity slider could be added since its not in the game sadly. Rating Overall: Its really amazing i must say so il give it solid 9/10

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I haven't completed this game yet, but here are my thoughts thus far. Positives: love the storyline and the brooding main character. I appreciate the back story and feel connected to what is happening. Negatives: cannot reccomend for someone with motion sickness like me! I realllyyy struggle to play unfortunately, fighting nausea all the way. In connection with this, WHY can you not save the game?! This is a horrible decision and left me in a tricky spot, when I was at my limit and felt like I was going to throw up from the motion sickness due to the games constant movement, I couldn't quit or I would lose my progress for the chapter and I do not have any desire to have to replay. I left my laptop running with the game on for over an hour while my nausea passed, laptop getting increasingly hot. When I was ready to face it again I felt a deep resentment and desperation for the chapter to be over. Now that I am finally released, I feel I don't personally want to pick it back up again, maybe not ever. I know these are personal gripes which is why I have said YES, I reccomend this game, but it's just not for me!

The setting is very promising, but the game mechanics and dialogues are not up to the task, in my opinion. This is a detective game inspired by Firewatch. So I was hoping for something similar to Her Story (investigation), Firewatch or other narrative games. However, the investigation aspect is very frustrating because of limiting game mechanics. It's incredibly railroady. Every tiny action has to be undertaken in a pre-decided order. Dialogue starts at decided times, and does not merge with action smoothly as in Firewatch. You can't take a picture while chatting : you go through conversation, then take a required picture when the game prompts you to. Initiatives are not rewarded, and you are not free to go through investigation in the order you would like. The invisible hand of the developer is always here, in the form of a constant to-do list on the screen... which breaks immersion for me. (deviations from the to-do list, in nature or order, are not allowed). Some tasks are also on a timer for no apparent reason, although the rest of the game is not in real time. More immersion-breaking. For an investigative game, it also assumes its players are dumb. Assembling the evidence and coming to conclusions is guided to the point you do not need to think whatsoever. Assembling evidence is done on a big board. There are empty slots, labelled with easy questions, for example "what does the victim look like ?". The player has to pick a picture of the victim and stick it there, that's it. If the wrong photograph is chosen, the game will not let you stick it, so the player can win by trial and error and basic reading ability. Finally, the narrative aspect is not here either, in my opinion... Dialogues are a bit cliché and not very believable. I did not finish the game, but from what I've seen on videos, the ending is generic. I find it disappointing for such an ambitious setting. The good parts are : - interesting premise - beautiful graphics - good voice acting

[url=https://i0.wp.com/www.dragon-quill.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/6A9D2DE9-ABBB-4C98-BCCF-EF8ABCE7CF3A.png]ice out bb[/url] Ahem. This is a really, really good and interesting game about fascism. I highly rec it. The Flower Collectors is an interesting take on the Rear Window premise -- you play as Jorge, an ex-cop who is confined to a wheelchair in post-Franco Spain and you witness a strange murder from your balcony. That same night, a woman named Melinda knocks on the door of your apartment and begs you to hide her, though what she's running from isn't immediately clear. After letting her stay the night in your apartment, she tells you she's a journalist who was supposed to get some kind of intel from the murdered man. From your perch on your balcony, you investigate the crime, helped by Melinda, who can go speak with people and interact with things in the world below. Them game takes place just after Franco's death, in a period where restoring Spain to democracy is anything but certain. The extremely interesting choice it makes is to have the protagonist not be Melinda -- Jorge is an ex-cop who did and believed terrible things under the autocratic regime, and the story is very much about him moving from seeing Melinda as a dangerous extremist to starting to reckon with the reality of the harm he caused. The game's ability to be empathetic to Jorge while making it clear that what he and people like him did wasn't okay was impressive; it managed to make Jorge feel like a person and not just like, the worst Redditor. I think the choice to make Jorge disabled is a big part of this. For the first time in his life, he's an outsider in his own society -- he can't leave his ♥♥♥♥♥♥ apartment because the elevator doesn't work right, he feels unmanned and useless, and buys his own propaganda about the worthlessness of the disabled. His character arc about realizing the Nationalists are wrong is tied tightly to realizing his disability doesn't disqualify him from living a full life. I just... really liked the way the game portrays the impact of sudden disability. It mapped so well onto my own experiences and was clearly very carefully and meaningfully written. I think the game asks some hard questions about what it means to deprogram a fascist, because the truth is that Jorge's ability to reckon with himself can only happen because he's made an outsider. If he hadn't been injured, he would probably have been outside helping the cops beat up a homeless guy. On the other hand though, the game posits truth and community as a form of resistance -- Jorge's heart grew three sizes that day both because of his experiences, but also because of the relationships he starts to form with Melinda and people like Dona Anna, and you see him slowly but surely starting to care about the murdered man as more than just a corpse. Fascism can only be maintained by disconnection and lies. The journalist being the foil of the solider-cop is a key part of this as well. I just found this game weirdly... cathartic? I can't think of any other word for it, as a Minnesotan it made me feel better, made the burden of everything feel a bit lighter. It was just really good and affecting and I really loved it. I continue to not understand why furries make the best games but I'm beyond questioning it at this point. From here on out I consider furry art to be a reason to buy a game lol.

The premise of the game is nothing new in movies but it seemed like an interesting idea for a game. Unfortunately it ended up being closer to a point and click. The story is simple and straight forward. Given the subject matter, it leaves a lot to be desired. This game is meant to be serious and address serious issues, I was having an incredibly hard time taking it seriously solely because of the animations. The animations, out of everything, are what left the worst impression. The animations come across as lazy and unpolished, frequently not matching the situation that’s currently playing out before your eyes. (Ex: the police “punch” a character but the animation is of them stomping. The character getting “punched” just lays down on the ground like Apu spills his tendies) I would argue that animations are just as important as story and worth the time and money to make them look clean, polished, and at the very least convincing. Clearly, all the animations were taken from Mixamo because I recognize a bunch of them. There were no in-betweens so characters would snap, slide, blend into their next animation. The fingers frequently don’t animate correctly. (Ex: hands go into an “ok” position and they bend back like hot dogs) The devs did not spend enough time on the character movements as the characters are often sliding around during walk and run animations. All of this just really took me out of the experience. It’s hard to connect with what’s happening when you’ve got characters that are over the top animating like the Sims. (Ex: Main big bad villain waving at the bouncer with one leg up like a schoolgirl) Unfortunately the story and the game play are just ok and are not enough to make me look past the, honestly, comedic animations. I feel like the making of this game was a bit rushed. With more time and dedication to all aspects of development (particularly animation), this could have been a better game.