PSN's best cure for insomnia.

User Rating: 2 | flOw PS3
By zgreenwell | Review Date:
Flow has been praised in forums and blogs quite often and that was all I had heard about it. What those blogs and forums failed to warn me is that Flow is a form of interactive art that does very little from a gameplay perspective. Now, don't get me wrong, I love artistic games, but they have to be GAMES too. Flow is a brainless waste of time where you can't lose and you can't win. All you do in Flow is tilt your controller around and guide your little bug on screen to eat everything around and then watch and see what happens. If you play for a few minutes you'll find some other creatures floating around. Although they may try to eat you they can't, the game will move you out of their way even if you are trying to get eaten. If you do keep playing though eventually the game "rewards" you by making you start all over again. Thats the game in its entirety. When you add the game's mellow music, you have PSN's best cure for insomnia.

Now, I don't want to be too negative so I will explain, Flow would make a great iPhone title. If I had literally nothing to do, and was looking for some way to kill 5-15 minutes, Flow would do alright. I could boot it up and occasionally think, "oh that looks neat," then shut it off soon after and not care about it beyond that. If the mobile version had custom soundtracks that would make it even better. The problem is that I didn't buy a mobile title, I bought it on the PS3.

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