112th Seed (REVIEW)

112th Seed is a perplexing puzzle platformer about the last remaining plant life in human history. Plant life that was created in a lab to withstand extinction in a bleak future where food isn't plentiful. A future where the last remaining humans sleep in stasis hoping for a miracle that could be seed 112. As seed 112 you are awakened amid the astronauts slumber, and must find your way to them making plants sprout along the way. Between you, and them lies puzzling situations that involve everything from water droplets to sprouting plants, and even plants that will transform you so that you can make your way to the tubular pipe exit. Puzzles are everywhere, and in every lab you happen upon. Growing increasingly complex with each new mechanic introduced. It literally puts William Edward Hickson's famous quote to the test ... "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again".

Though simple yet mind boggling in nature the traversal from lab to lab, and puzzle to puzzle is made all the more zen due to the developers use of welcoming pixel graphics, and lively alien environments. That and the gradual easing in that is done mostly through hands-on discovery. Nothing ever gets too hard, and as far as the experience is concerned it is a properly graduated series of situations that will not hurt the old brain noodle too much with it's 70+ stages included. For $4.99 you get one heck of a hopeful puzzle platformer with an underlying moral. A lesson us as humans could take to heart in many of our own real world circumstances. I found my playthrough of '112th Seed' to be thought provoking, and inspiring. Enough so that I posted this micro-review despite not really having to. For those of you who wish to see what I'm talking about in regards to the game be sure to stop by my Youtube channel for the accompanying gameplay. I hope you give this little indie a chance, and that it pleases you as much as it did me.

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