Flower Impresses

Everyone has been talking about the PSN game that isn't a game (or is it?) recently. That game, of course, is Flower - a very artistic, zen-like experience that you will either love or hate. I finally got around to downloading it over the weekend, except I didn't play it. I'm still trying (and usually failing horribly) to get my wife into some game - any game. (Useless trivia: I got her to play a one-on-one match in Halo 3 with me…and she vowed never to play the game again.)

So, I downloaded Flower and, instead of playing it myself, I handed the controller to her and let her play it. She covered the first couple levels the other night and just finished it up this morning. What does she think of the whole experience? I'm not sure, I haven't talked to her much. However, I'm attempting to get her to write a column for this blog explaining her experience with various games - with a non-gamer wife point of view (more to come on this in the future). If or when that time arrives, we will see what she thought of Flower in a post on this blog. What I know now is that she enjoyed it and was rather impressed with it - and that's saying a lot.