#eufloria hd

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I once again couldn't figure out what to do with myself because what I felt like doing and what my brain felt like letting me do were in disagreement, so I made a list of all the games I was considering playing. Making myself write out how much I felt like I should be playing them vs how much I actually wanted to play them at the time was surprisingly helpful.

I ranked them on a scale from 🐙 to 🐌. I had started with smilies, but they weren't easy enough to tell apart at a glance so I switched to aquatic/amphibious critters for some reason. And yes, shrimp tempura is a sea creature now.

One of the biggest discrepancies was that FE3H was pretty high for should but at the absolute bottom for want, and it made me realize I probably have the strongest negative feelings toward it out of any Switch game at the moment. Eufloria HD was worse but I've mostly forgotten it by now, and BotW annoyed me much more but was also a while ago, and the good stuff in that is genuinely great.

I gave FE3H its second chance just in case I was having a weird day before and was unfair to it. Within 15 minutes of running around the monastery/school I had to stop because of motion sickness, which nothing has done to me since Super Hexagon. Or really it's less motion sickness and more neurological weirdness, but I didn't want to stick around and find out what flavor because with Super Hexagon it was seizures (which is extra sad because Super Hexagon is a great game (hi again Terry Cavanagh)).

So yeah, FE3H is now permanently off the list, which is surprisingly relieving, and I've had a good reminder that there really is no "should" (e.g. I "should" finish the games I'm in the middle of and was enjoying, I "shouldn't" play more XC2 or start something new yet), just various reasons I do or don't feel like playing something at any given time that might be in conflict with each other, and no one is judging me for it but me.

Also it'll be really funny if FEW3H turns out to be one of my favorite games that comes out this year (whether or not I actually play it this year), just like BotW was one of my biggest disappointments ever but I thought AoC was great.

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Ok, finally time to make a post that lives up to the name of this blog for a change and not just treating it like a joke.

Let's just get this out of the way up front: Eufloria HD on Switch is shit.

For a little bit of background, I played the original Eufloria like a decade ago and thought it was pretty fun. And I mean the original original, which I think was just some random free thing someone made that got mentioned in a post on Rock Paper Shotgun. I'm pretty sure it was also called Dyson back then or something.

It was simple and fairly elegant, with minimalist graphics that conveyed everything important well and an interface that I'm pretty sure could be used with a single mouse button and no keyboard. It was relaxing and laid back, with maybe 20 levels of low to moderate difficulty that I don't ever remember being stressful in any way. I vaguely remember there being some music I liked, but I'm less sure about that.

At some point it was made into a full paid game and sold as Eufloria HD, and I forget why I never played it. I feel like it was made by someone else or changed enough stuff that it seemed to be missing what I liked about the original. Probably. Maybe. This was still a while ago. And then I kind of forgot about it.

Silly me got excited seeing it turn up on the Switch and got it on sale just to have something chill to play when my brain's not up for more involved stuff. Wow was that ever a mistake.

It does work with the touchscreen, which is what I was hoping for and made the most sense from my experience, but they actually never tell you that. The tutorial goes on and on about the button controls only, and they're way more complex and involved than what I was used to from before. Also now there's a challenge mode and achievements and a story and all sorts of stuff. Ok fine, maybe that could be good.

Haha nope.

All the additional stuff makes the gameplay less smooth, and both the button controls and touchscreen ones have a lot of annoyances for me. It's also decidedly not chill.

The sounds in the game are aggravating. There's a hissing rumbling noise whenever you're zoomed in on an asteroid, and you're zoomed in on one a large amount of the time. Thankfully it has a separate volume slider so you can just turn that sound specifically off, but it's a terrible sound that shouldn't exist in the first place. For bonus points there's basically no other background noise ever, even music, so most of the time it's just you and the slightly less annoying pew pew your plant ships make.

I stuck with it for a few levels trying to get used to it even though it wasn't what I'd hoped for, and then I promptly got vaporized by the AI on the fifth level before even really doing anything. This is supposedly a relaxing game, and on the default settings I got absolutely obliterated with no warning by an AI character with a larger number of units than I had and more of them, on a level early enough in the game that it was still showing me tutorial popups.

There are probably more things to complain about that I've forgotten while writing this, and there are probably also more to discover later in the game. I'm never going to find out though because I'm not touching it again. It superficially looks like the game I liked when I was younger, but if it was remade by someone who completely missed the point.

If I could use my computer right now I'd go dig up Dyson on my old hard drive and play that and hope it's still what I remember it being, but instead I'm just going to sit here feeling resentful that I felt too crappy to play more Hades today (now there's an excellent game that I'm just now getting to) and discovered this disappointment of a game.

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Eufloria HD now on Linux, Mac and Windows

Eufloria grew from PC indie development, before snapping loose a seedling and floating off to colonise more mobile asteroids with the now Eufloria HD for Linux, Mac and Windows. The neat strategy game about expansive space gardening launches its expanded remake today on Steam or through the Eufloria website. It’s also free to anyone who purchased the original game. The full list of features for Eufloria HD:

Gorgeous high-definition visuals

A 25-level Story Mode with many hours of gameplay

Relaxed Mode for a more ambient experience which anyone can enjoy

Skirmish levels that can be played again and again

Dark Matter Mode for a stylish, more challenging way to play

Original ambient soundtrack by Brian Grainger (Milieu)

Procedurally-generated levels which are different every time

Here’s a trailer for Eufloria HD from November 2012, when it was first released on yer iPads and mobiles:

As far as indie games go, Eufloria dates back to the movement’s initial heyday. Described it as “soft yet strategic, fierce yet calm”, which held true for the eventual, greatly expanded retail release. Though it is a graceful counter-point to the brute force and neon of Galcon Fusion. Both games scratch the same sense of satisfaction for me, one that comes from commanding swarms of things. If you do not own the earlier version, Eufloria HD  is will be $15 from Steam or $20 for the Deluxe Edition with the original game and a soundtrack.

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Eufloria HD - Debut Trailer (by PlayStation)

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Eufloria HD

Coming to PS Vita on December 17th. Surreal, real-time strategy with touch controls and enhanced visuals.

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Eufloria HD

Eufloria HD ผลิตโดย Omni Systems Limited เป็นนักพัฒนาเกมส์อินดี้

เกมส์นี้ได้รับการการันตีจาก  Apple เขาได้รับรางวัล Awarded Apple Game of the week และ Top Ten Games Worldwide เกมส์นี้เป็นแนวเกมส์ค่อนข้างใหม่สำหรับหลาย ๆ คน เป็นเกมส์เชิงกลยุทธ์ที่คุณจะต้องวางแผน ในเกมส์  สิ่งที่คุณจะต้องทำให้เกมนี้หลัก ๆ เลยก็คือสำรวจอวกาศ ขยายเผ่าพันธ์ต้นกล้าของคุณบนดาวเคราะห์   ล่าอาณานิคมดาวเคราะห์น้อย รวมถึงปกป้องอาณานิคมของคุณ เริ่มต้นเกมส์คุณจะมีต้นไม้ต้นหนึ่งที่เรียกว่า ต้นไดสัน มันจะมีเมล็ดคุณจะต้องทำการพาเจ้าเมล็ดนี้ไปปลูกที่ดวงดาวที่คุณต้องการเมล็ดของมันจะฝังรากลึกลงไปถึงแกนของดาวเคราะห์และมันจะเติบโตขึ้นและสามารถผลิตเมล็ดใหม่ออกมา เมื่อเวลาผ่านไปต้นไม้ของคุณแข็งแรงขึ้นคุณจะมีดอกไม้ออกมาจากต้นไม้ของคุณต้นไม้แต่ละต้นมีเอกลักษณ์ของมัน ยิ่งคุณสามารถผลิตเมล็ดพันธ์ใหม่ออกมาได้มาก คุณก็จะมีต้นไดสันมากนั้นหมายถึงคุณก็จะสามารถปกป้องรักษาอาณาเขตของคุณและสามารถรบราทำสงครามกับศัตรูของคุณได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพด้วยเช่นกัน

ในเกมส์จะมีคู่มือสอนให้คุณว่าคุณจะต้องทำอะไรบ้างแต่เป็นภาษาอังกฤษจะลำบากนิดหนึ่งสำหรับคนไม่คล่องแต่โดยพื้นฐานแล้วก็จะต้องทำอย่างที่ได้กล่าวมาแล้วข้างต้น ในหน้าจอจะมีแถบโชว์  Energy คือพลังโจมตีของพืช Strength เป็นค่าความแข็งแกร่ง Speed  ค่าความเร็ว ยิ่งมากเจ้าเมล์ดก็จะยิ่งเดินทางไประหว่างดาวดวงต่าง ๆ ได้เร็วขึ้น เกมส์นี้มีทั้งหมด 25 เลเวล มีสองหมวด คือ หมวด Skirmish และ  Dark matter ทั้ง25 เลเวลคุณจะได้พบกับเรื่องราวที่แตกต่างกันไป เป็นเกมส์ที่เล่นได้ง่าย สบาย ๆ ไปเรื่อย แต่ต้องใช้สมองในการวางแผนมาก นี้เป็นสิ่งที่คุณจะต้องทำเพื่อที่จะเล่นเกมส์นี้

กราฟิก และดนตรีประกอบในเกมส์ถือว่าเป็นพระเอกของเกมส์เลยก็ว่าได้เพราะทุกอย่างลงตัวได้อย่างดี การเล่นเกมส์จะทำให้คุณใจเย็น รีแล็ค สบาย ๆ ปล่อยอารมณ์ไปกับการเดินทางของเจ้าเมล็ดพืช ถ้าคุณเป็นคนที่ชอบเล่นเกมส์ที่ต้องยิงกันเลือดสาด เกมนี้ไม่ใช่แนวคุณเกมส์นี้ต้องวางแผน ค่อย ๆ คิด ช้า ๆ รักที่จะเล่นเกมส์นี้จะต้องใจเย็นนิดหนึ่งแล้วคุณจะสนุกกับมัน

Graphics

Sound

Gameplay

Originality

Overall

8.5

Omni Systems Limited

iOS 4.3+

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เวอร์ชั่น: v1.1.0

อายุ: 4+

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Eufloria HD is finally released on the App Store, it features a 25-level campaign, Game Center achievements and alternative gameplay modes! You can get it for $4.99.