Mutazione is a adventure exploration video game set on an island where the player tends to the local gardens and learns more about the town's people. The game takes place over different days, each with unique events. While gardening the player can grow different types of plants, from bushes to trees. Seeds can be found all over the island from other plants. The player needs to give the plant the required space in order for it to grow and different ones require other types of soil. Each plant also creates different sounds, which when combined with other greenery can create music.
The art style, music and sound effects work very well with a story that has a specific tone with proper emotional punch but the gameplay doesn’t really give you anything to have enough motivation for reading so many dialogues that sometimes go longer than they should.
If you like narrative-style adventures, like Night in the Woods and its ilk, then this is an easy recommendation. If you like strong characters then this should be a priority to play. However, if you need a little more gameplay in your games then this might not be for you.
Mutazione makes us see, with praiseworthy ease, the wonders that are hidden in our daily lives, the beauty of tranquility and calm, the need to stop and observe our surroundings and converse with those close to us: listen to their stories and feel ourselves heard.
I had an unexpectedly good time with Mutazione. I thought it was going to be more of a quirky point-and-click adventure, but it turned out to be something very different. Not that that’s a bad thing! Quite the contrary, in fact. Mutazione proved to be an unbelievably zen experience that I haven’t enjoyed since I last played Spiritfarer, which, considering...
With an unusual art style and even more unusual characters you’ll encounter on a remote island Mutazione just feels different than most any game I’ve played...
