A game about the beauty and joy of cultivation. Though it is not long - I easily completed it in a few hours - the random organic nature of its puzzles (and beautiful aesthetic) mean there is plenty of reason to play through it again.Prune is a love letter to trees. Prune is beautiful and with a message and tone that both thought provoking and relaxing. This makes the dangerous red poison areas all the more striking, and as it starts to pollute your flower you can see its influence spreading – drawing your eye to what needs to be cut away. As technology encroaches on nature there is less space for the plants to grow, and that growth is harder to achieve.Īll of this is set in beautiful – near monochrome – 2D landscape. As the levels progress they become more technologically advanced, and the number of stages diminish. The gameplay’s ethos of reaching forward and cutting away the unneeded, is joined by one other poignant messages. It delicately involved mix planning and fast reactions, as your tree winds its way unpredictably upwards. Starting your seed up a narrow shaft, there will be poison avoid in order to reach a switch which opens a door to work your way up. In later stages you will have to battle many of these elements combined.
The landscape actively blocks you, wind buffets and bends your branches from their goal, red orbs that float in space poison your plant, and doors will block your way. Objects in the world aren't all helpful, and Prune throws a significant number of hurdles in your path as you strive towards the sun. These include an orb that you can drag round the screen to pull new shoots towards it, and other fertile areas of earth that allow you to plant additional seeds in more strategic areas. To help with this you occasionally gain access to other abilities. The organic nature of plants mean that they are hard to bend to your will, so your cuts sometimes have to be thoughtful or unintuitive if you hope to reach those higher shafts of sunshine. If they reach the light, then they will flower, and with enough petals you complete the level. Slicing away excess branches and twigs with a simple swipe of the finger allows nutrients to be used elsewhere, so slender young branches can reach further. A swipe up starts your seed rapidly growing, but as it starts to slow, you need to begin deciding what parts of the tree you can do without.
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