Plants are awesome.They give us food, and some of them give us the necessary materials for shelter and the world itself would be gray and void of life without them. But have you ever wanted to grow your own garden, but lack the skills or time necessary to do so? Well Plantera DX can help you scratch that gardener itch. In Plantera, you will build your own garden and help it grow adding new plants, bushes trees and animals. As you level up you will get access to new plants to grow and harvest their fruits in order to get coins that you can use to purchase, more plants land and animals.
However, not everything is fun and games in this world because as your garden expand, you will have more plants and animals to tend to. There will also be wild animals that want their piece of the action. Birds want to eat your fruit and wolves will want to eat your cows and pigs, but with a quick bonk on the head they will go away. They will then wait until you are not putting attention to try to eat the fruits of your labor. However, as your garden expands you also get blue characters that help you with harvest, taking care of the animals as well as keeping the wild animals at bay.
Graphically the game uses pixel super deformed cute characters, that are full of color and the art style selected goes well with the theme. The music is really good and laid back and you don’t even notice how the time goes by while playing. The backgrounds are well detailed and you can even plant in a island. I even think that this is a good game to blow off some stress, since the game objective is so simple and the controls are simple as well. The game just has a cute nature that can make you smile and have a good time. Another thing that I like is that if you have a scarecrow that besides scaring birds and such, also helps to raise the collection rate of the helpers. It is a nice touch to see that while you are not playing the game, life continues on your cute little garden.
Bottom Line Plantera DX is a good time killer. It is a proof that you don’t need the latest graphics, nor a hollywood style story. You just need a game that is simple but fun concept to sink hours into, and if you want a cute little game that can keep you playing for hours and are on a budget I recommend Plantera DX to ingrain its roots on your Nintendo Switch.
Disclaimer: A review code was provided.