Flower

We’ve been hit hard by arcade releases over the last few months. A genre I had once discredited as an easy way to leech more money from online gamers, has now become a vastly strong pillar in the gaming industry. The term arcade nowadays is used rather loosely for those thinking that I’m twittering on about the latest Tetris or Galaga devices; arcade in modern gaming terms simply means games that are available to download from either Xbox Live of Playstation Network such as The Maw or Noby Noby Boy. However the modern arcade genre has many branches and the one that has been far more successful than any other is the Indie games branch.

Skip the explanations if you wish, but what I mean by Indie gaming, is playing games that have a very unique twist/spice to them that makes them stand out from every other game on the shelf. World of Goo proved to be a tremendous example along with the very recent Noby Noby Boy, but all the focus in this review is on Flower.