BUDDING EXPERT
Something about GROW HOME feels slightly seedy
Plants are capricious bastards, aren’t they? When they’re not dying because they’ve had too little water, they’re rotting because they’ve had too much. The only upside, apart from pretty flowers, is that I’m glad when it rains now, because it’s one less thankless task to do for my ungrateful leafy children.
If only it was more like Grow Home.
That way I could palm off the entire wretched process to the likes of BUD. He’s a cheerful, spaghetti-limbed red robot who exists only to help the game’s giant alien plants burst into life. This involves clambering up the giant stalks and riding long, leafy appendages through the skies. You can float down gently by using flowers as parachutes and use bouncy leaves to propel yourself upwards. And I realise, writing that, that it sounds like the most wholesome game ever made. The sort of experience you could share with your children to foster an early love of games. But there’s a problem.