I wrote:<i>Flower</i> makes for an excellent case-study of the diabolically cunning tactics of the indie bums: Take an old and venerable genre, dumb it down almost beyond recognition, to the point where it'd take <i>a genius</i> to discern what you've done, so that everyone else loses all points of reference and it appears to them as if your game has suddenly materialized out of nowhere, then dress it up in some effeminate theme that panders to the sensibilities of women, fagots and mentally stunted men-children the world over — and voilà: sit back and watch your <i>Metacritic</i> score blow past <i>Civilization</i>'s, <i>GTA III</i>'s and Deus Ex's, and your bank account swell into six-digit territory. Neat trick, isn't it? Someone should write a book about it — it's not even illegal.
It's pretty damn epic, at least as far as game reviews go.
Bonus points if you guess the game's genre before my review goes up.
