Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Aug 4, 2012

  I really didn't know what to make of this game. It played like a mushroom trip, and made about as much sense as one. I feel that style conquered coherence in this game, and am confused by it's win of Best Indie Game. I wont go into much detail, but let it be said that there is no proper story. The game relies on "random" quirkiness to evoke some kind of humour, I guess. Like, spawning a block of cheese in a forrest and calling it "ironic". I'm not saying it's a bad game, I'm saying I didn't get it. This game wasn't right for me, but that doesn't mean it isn't right for you. -Nilesy
• gamedeal user

  Jan 6, 2015

  Would you like to play a game where you do nothing and have no idea what's going on? Sweet. Play Minecraft. Don't play this boring mess.
• Dick Nation

  Dec 5, 2010

  Crap. Don't buy it.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 13, 2011

  One of WAY TOO MANY of the indie games of the late 2000's that focus on delivering an 'experience' and to 'change the way gaming is perceived' and 'waste your fucking time with a shitty boring platformer disguised as an introspective journey into a world and into yourself'. Don't get this, and if you were unfortunate enough to have already received it, don't play it. It's not worth your time.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 16, 2013

  Waste time with this game. Seriously. Do it. It's fun and absurd. There is no point to it, just explore and marvel.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 29, 2016

  I notiminated this for the “I'm Not Crying, There's Something In My Eye” award. It's not really a sad game; it's actually pretty quirky and cute. However, the entire game is an allegory for something that's going on in the real world right now, and that subject is pretty depressing. *minor spoilers* There was one point in particular that really hit me during one of my first playthroughs. I had figured out how to beat the game, but I also realized that I was too late. Due to a certain time-oriented mechanic in the game, it had become totally impossible to carry out my plan even though I knew exactly what I needed to do. All I could do was watch as all my creations were slowly engulfed and destroyed. I actually watched it all happen, too. I didn't ragequit or do a quick restart. I just watched the world end and felt depressed that the same thing might be happening in real life.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 24, 2012

  Blueberry Garden is a mediocre, simple and strange indie game that will last you less than an hour. The single piece of music the game repeats during that time goes from pleasant to annoying very quickly. As the name suggests, you begin in a garden and your goal is to find large objects in the open environment, stand near them so they are teleported back to the starting area, then repeat this process until you have stacked a tower tall enough that you can reach the moon. You can jump, soar and eat various fruits that cause you to fly higher, breathe underwater, shift the earth etc. You will need these to reach restricted areas. Finishing the game will allow you to see some concept art and the developer's bedroom and various other personal photos. Awkward.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 13, 2018

  I’m going to concede that I set out looking for this sort of thing. You see, after gorging myself on so many well crafted and adored titles, there came a point where my brain started to call out for something a little more... Abstract. A title that was way off everyone’s radar, carrying with it a sense of mystery and the surreal, and having as good a chance of being a hidden masterpiece as it did of being a flaming pile of garbage. From these thoughts and a browse of my games library, my discovery of Blueberry Garden was made. And I’ll give it this – it certainly is a peculiar one. Its core concept is actually really interesting. You’re a strange looking bird-man in the titular garden, which is slowly but surely being flooded by a tap located way up in the sky, and your sole purpose in life is to find a way to turn it off. This is achieved by jumping and flying about the world, discovering oversized items, and using them to start building a tower to the heavens. Find enough, and you’ll finally have the height needed to successfully make the flight to your goal. It’s a fun idea – not only is it entertaining to just watch the tower get bigger and bigger, but as it grows your ability to get to the furthest reaches of the map also opens up, giving you a nice little sense of progression. It’s unfortunate, then, that there’s nothing else in this game that’s able to actually back this sense of enjoyment up. [h1]Feeling blue[/h1] For one, the controls are extremely fiddly. Any actual platforming you need to do just ends up feeling cumbersome; flights are cut short if you dare to brush against absolutely anything, navigation in some narrower areas feels clumsy and awkward, and there’s a whole list of items that seem to only exist to get in your way. Additionally, whilst the world itself might look artistically distinct, that doesn’t actually mean it’s interesting to explore. A lot of areas feel empty and pointless to visit, and even in the ones where something is actually happening it never proves to be intriguing or exciting. There’s either an item you need, a bunch of animals blocking your path, or fruits you can eat that each have their own obscure effects on your character. That’s pretty much your lot. Given these problems, it’s especially ironic that the game tries to laud the concepts of curiosity and exploration as its unique selling points. Freely exploring got tiring very quickly, and the solution to getting some items was so abstract I was forced to look up the solutions online. Safe to say, ‘curiosity’ was not high on my list of feelings. That space was more reserved for ‘boredom’. If anything, the fact the game tries to push ideas such as this in an attempt to give itself artistic merit only work to its detriment. There’s no “ever-changing ecosystem” or “living world” as its description might declare. It’s a smattering of cartoon trees moving about a bit and a few animals which wander around aimlessly, and selling it as anything more than that is simply foolish. The obligatory piano music that plays over time and slowly begins to grate simply adds to the overall feeling that this is all a little bit... Well, pretentious. It’s baffling to me, then, how Blueberry Garden not only won some prestigious awards, but also has certain reputable outlets singing its praises online. It also sort of pains me to critique it so much; your reward for completing the game is access to a extensive list of concept art, all of which goes to show how much this seemed to be a passion project to the developer. Part of me feels like I missed something – maybe I entered into the whole affair with the wrong mindset? I really don’t think this is the case, though. This just feels like a very basic title that has misplaced beliefs that it’s bigger than it actually is, and ends up sadly being something that isn’t worth the brief amount of time it asks from you.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 6, 2019

  The controls are extremely cumbersome. Additionally, whilst the world might look "artistically" well made, that doesn’t absolutely reflect on its gameplay. It looks more like a bizarre satire made by a just graduated programmer than a real game. Nothing is intriguing or exciting. It hurts my soul that Mario 1 was made nearly 40 years ago and its much more interesting and challenging than this. Do not buy this game, unless you like... "abstract art".
• Bunge

  Jul 22, 2012

  Don't buy me.