PS3’s ‘Flower,’ the Screensaver You Can Play

When I first heard about a game with no goals, no enemies and no way to lose, my mind immediately raced to Nintendo, who seems intent on cornering the “people wearing diapers” market with their recent software offerings (that’s your baby niece and your grandpa). So when I heard Flower was on the PS3, I was a bit perplexed.

As you can guess, it’s a game about flowers. But no, not cool flowers like the Piranha Plants that eat you in Mario Bros. or the alien space flowers in Pikmin. In Flower, you control the wind with the magic power of six-axis and you must safely escort petals across a meadow. That’s it. Don’t believe me? Look:

And upon seeing that trailer you’ll understand why this isn’t being made by Nintendo, because the Wii couldn’t even render four seconds of the game. And even though the project is trying so hard to be exceptionally meta and indie, it doesn’t irk me as much as Nintendo’s goaless waggle-fests (*cough* Wii Music), mainly because it’s just so pretty, but also because I can’t seem to find any disembodied cartoon avatars dancing across the screen. And really, that’s all I ask from my games.

Get your zen on February 12th for only $10. I mean, how much more could they possibly charge?