Talk:Flower (video game)

genre of game
According to the people who write on this article, Flower is a "poetic adventure" type of video game? Describing a video game in this way doesn't give any sort of useful information. The genre is supposed to tell you what type of video game it is and what the mechanics will be like. The term "poetic adventure" is incredibly vague and mysterious, and can apply to nearly every video game ever made. Flower simulates flying. You control the wind and fly around. It is a flight simulator. 76.193.17.88 (talk) 19:06, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It in no way simulates the act of flying a plane, which is what the flight simulator genre is. It doesn't really fit into a genre- adventure is close, but intimates more excitement and action than is actually in the game. "Poetic" adventure, while still being vague, gives the correct sense of what the game is- and on top of that is the official genre tag given to the Japanese version. There are no genre tags that are more concrete without being wrong as well. -- Pres N  19:31, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I never said anything about planes. The flight simulator genre is simulating flying, and does not necessarily have to include something that looks like a plane. 76.193.17.88 (talk) 20:31, 20 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Verifiability: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." What you are presenting is Original research. — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 19:33, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

That said, I cannot really translate/verify the attached reference. I see different genre assignment from different VG sources: Giant Bomb - Adventure GameTrailers - Puzzle Game Critics - Weird Video Gamer - Simulation etc. Perhaps this is a game where we skip this classification? — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 19:33, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you can't Google translate the Japanese page there. here's Siliconera mentioning that the genre is poetic adventure; there's a bunch of others as well but that one at least is easy to prove it's not taking it from the article. -- Pres N  20:04, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I can see how this is a better ref than other usual VG RS directory entries. Still, Siliconera is situational at WP:VG/RS. And that still leaves everyone else mis-categorizing or not subscribing to "poetic adventure". Perhaps a sentence in prose instead or in addition to the infobox field? — HELL KNOWZ  ▎TALK 20:15, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Honestly if this game has any genre, it'd be Interactive Screensaver. Not that there's anything wrong with that but still.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.56.148.18 (talk) 18:55, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Positive Emotions, Most of the time
Paragraph two states: "Flower was primarily intended to arouse positive emotions in the player, rather than to be a challenging and "fun" game."

I agree with this, but only for 5/6 of the game, which I guess is "primarily". The fifth level of this game is mostly an industrial landscape with overcast rain, thunder and lightning. I do like that, but it is certain a threatening scenario for some. The level itself has several electrified metal structures strung with red lights. Touch the lights and the petals get burned (black trailing smoke), some petals disappear and the player's petal is pushed away from the structure. How does that create positive emotions, other than perhaps to challenge someone to be careful? The level is a challenge since you have to get to the flowers with short surges and more precise controlled movements to avoid the electrical shocks. Some musical dissonance is used. It is still true that your main petal never dies.

My account may be original research, but parts of it is mentioned in this review, which may or may not be notable: http://www.gizmag.com/flower-game-review-playstation-3/10998/ (last paragraph of 'Gameplay' section)

This one describes level 5, and also shows a Youtube video. The player is adept enough to not get shocked. http://bitmob.com/articles/the-lessons-film-could-be-teaching-game-feel

Also, the gameplay section makes no mention of any possible negatives beyond the above. However, the reality is that you do have to meet certain objectives to progress each level. That means retracing steps to find flowers you missed. Even with the halo, it's not always easy to see an unopened flower in a field of open ones. Second, you have to hold the controller and tilt it in three dimensions to move something on the screen and the view, except for showing you effect and objective, always faces only where the front petal is going. That requires agility and control of the wrist, and while many people have digital dexterity to just hold the controller and mash buttons, using the wrist as a mechanism of control just doesn't seem as intuitive.

Another aspect not touched on here is that while you can complete a level, if you don't find certain secret flowers in each one, the flower in the level's pot will not bloom. It's odd to finish a level and see a wilted flower. I do not find that uplifting. Also, the level mentioned above doesn't end with any positive result view like the others do. It just ends.

However, except for the review above, most of the other comments here are mentioned on player forums. I can't find notable sources for those. --WPaulB (talk) 04:44, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Wording in the lead
I know this is a featured article, so I thought I'd post this here first.

In the lead, the article currently states:

"The game was intended as a "spiritual successor" to Flow, a previous title by Chen and Thatgamecompany. In it, the player controls the wind, blowing a flower petal through the air using the movement of the game controller."

[Emphasis on it added.)

In my opinion, the it is not obvious what exactly it is referring to. It could refer to Flow or Flower&mdash;and, particularly with the titles being so similar, I suggest changing it to Flower, to make sure people know which game is being talked about.

Darth Newdar talk  14:29, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed, done. -- Pres N  15:09, 31 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Darth Newdar  talk  19:08, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 9 external links on Flower (video game). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.1up.com/reviews/flower
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090415053039/http://www.gamepro.com/article/reviews/208820/flower/ to http://www.gamepro.com/article/reviews/208820/flower/
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.indiegames.com/features/reviews.php?i=flower
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.joystiq.com/2013/10/16/flower-flow-sound-shapes-escape-plan-coming-to-playstation-4/
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://vincentdiamante.com/
 * Added tag to http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=9015970
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/04/05/coming-to-psn-this-week-flower-soundtrack/
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://palgn.com.au/playstation-3/13661/flower-review/
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.interactive.org/awards/2010_13th_awards.asp
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.bafta.org/awards/video-games/nominations-in-2010,1017,BA.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 03:55, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on Flower (video game). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://www.webcitation.org/5yPcOnGbT?url=http://www.1up.com/reviews/flower to http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3172687
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100711195005/http://thatgamecompany.com/about/ to http://thatgamecompany.com/about/
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.bafta.org/awards/video-games/nominations-in-2010,1017,BA.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090208200655/http://www.ugo.com/games/best-of-e3/?cur=Best-Original-Game-Flower to http://www.ugo.com/games/best-of-e3/?cur=Best-Original-Game-Flower

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 18:21, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Copied the first two paragraphs of this to the Global warming game page
I’m expanding the Global warming game page as part of a project between Wikipedia, Climate Steps and Earth Hero. I’m new at this, learning as I go. Another editor informed me that I needed to add something here letting anyone interested know what I had done. I copied the first two paragraphs of this article to that page under the heading “Flower.” Loupgrru (talk) 16:45, 10 August 2023 (UTC)