Going with the FLOW

I bought the game FLOW from the US Playstation Network site. Cost US$7.99.

It's a pretty surreal game. Something like an evolved (or devolved...) version of SNAKE.

You start off like some simple cell and then you go round eating other cells/organisms. As you eat them, you start growing longer and more elaborate. This continues until you reach the 'end' of the level and then they give you the option to take on a different cell and start eating all over again.

You control your organism by tilting the SIXAXIS controller. Takes a couple of minutes to get used to the way it works but after that, it's pretty instinctive. There's also this plinky plonky new-agey music in the background.

To some, this would probably be a very boring game. Nothing really very exciting happens. To me, it's actually quite relaxing and mindless. I think long-term play can lead to a trance-like state. heh.

Nice game for US$7.99 (about S$12).

The first pic below is the first 'evolved' organism I played. Kinda like a pretty centipede. The second pic is the next organism which looks like a jellyfish without the tentacles. The third pic shows the organism which I've just started playing. A little bit of a let down coz it just looks like a fish. Wonder what's after that.

(There's actually a PC version of the game which you can play here. Honestly though, I think the PS3 version's more interesting and fun.)