![]() It is really cool to see so many different ways you can accomplish such a simple task and this adds variety to what otherwise could have been a very basic puzzle game. The way you paint the objects varies – sometimes there are paint bombs attached to the rope or nails that trigger an entire side to be painted. Although any level may be easy for you to get through, you may want to push yourself to cover each object with 100% paint, which is sometimes a hefty challenge. ![]() There are ten trees with a level on each branch, adding up to over 100 levels total. This is a relaxing, almost therapeutic game that always has another challenge to throw at you. Now that I’m done lusting over a controller, on to the gameplay itself. Zen Bound 2 is a family puzzle game developed by Secret Exit. Don’t even attempt to play this on a Pro Controller as you need to experience the care and refinement put into the single Joy-Con controls. Now, simply rotating a single Joy-Con replicates the exact feeling of moving these objects in the real world – and it feels great. This is accomplished by rotating the Joy-Con in your hands. In the past, analog sticks, mousepads or touch screens would be used to do this. Zen Bound 2 is more of a relaxing game in which paint wooden sculptures by wrapping them with rope. An opportunity to slow down, zone out and. The main mechanic is to rotate objects and wrap rope around them, painting them in the process. Unlike other games that up the tension, Zen Bounds down-tempo style turns the challenge into a meditative process. Honestly, I would argue that the Switch is the only way to play Zen Bound 2. RedDeerGames provided us with a Bit Orchard: Animal Valley Switch code for review purposes.Saying that this title works well on the Switch would be a tremendous understatement. Zen Bound 2 is a calm and meditative gameplay experience, with tactile, dusty visuals and a sublime, enveloping soundtrack by the electronic artist ‘Ghost Monkey’. But it’s a mark of how enjoyable Bit Orchard is that you’ll almost inevitably find yourself getting sucked right back in. And you’re still likely to eventually get bored by its relative simplicity. It’s still not a complex game, obviously. All those things help ensure that the game has a little bit of variety to it, rather than it just being an endless loop of sow-water-harvest-sell. ![]() You also need to build scarecrows, buy seeds and supplies, hack away at weeds and, most importantly, befriend bunnies and catch frogs. It’s an easy loop to get into, as you can imagine.Īdmittedly, there are more things to do here than just becoming a titan of the apple industry. As such, the game doesn’t ask you to do too much other than plant trees, water them, and then harvest and sell the apples. Bit Orchard is meant to evoke the GameBoy in all its 8-bit glory, so it probably would’ve seemed a bit odd for them to make the game overly complicated. ![]() That’s this game in a nutshell – though Bit Orchard is more simplistic than the Farming Simulator game, which means the fun-not fun cycle probably goes a little faster. I had the same kind of feelings towards the Farming Simulator series: they’re a very zen kind of fun, right up until the point they’re not. Given that Bit Orchard is basically a farming game, that shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. I’ll start playing it and get hooked on its gameplay loop for a little while, only to get sick of being stuck doing the same tasks over and over and over, at which point I’ll quit – only to eventually start missing the simplicity of its gameplay loop, at which point I’ll pick it up again and start the cycle anew. I keep going back and forth on how much I like Bit Orchard: Animal Valley. ![]()
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