A detective mystery set in the political powder-keg of Barcelona in 1977. You play Jorge, a retired policeman who uses a wheelchair, struggling with a difficult past. Alone on your balcony, you watch the world pass by through binoculars.
Despite the grim context, the game is suitable for older kids (perhaps aged 10 and above?) and doesn’t go into that brutality much. Playing Flower Collectors might generate interest in learning about Spanish history or about political systems. While the game doesn’t go into the history and politics much, it creates emotional interest in the characters...
Post-Franco Spain serves as the setting for this narrative game where a murder will be the engine of all events. The brilliant setting and its claustrophobic gameplay are undoubtedly its most attractive elements, but against it play the linearity of the plot and the irrelevance of the decisions we can make.
The Flower Collectors is a narrative-driven murder mystery set in 1977 Barcelona, just days before Spain’s first democratic elections after Franco’s dictatorship. The story follows Jorge, a wheelchair-bound ex-cop, who witnesses a murder and investigates it with the help of young journalist Melinda. Inspired by Hitchcock’s Rear Window, the game explores...
The story falls absolutely flat, as it can’t be carried by core characters that receive little development and secondaries that I couldn’t bring myself to care about. The gameplay is exceedingly dull, somehow finding itself in a horrifying fusion of too vague and too specific. The visuals, despite the entire game taking place in a singular environment,...
The Flower Collectors has a very interesting concept, that feels exciting. But it feels so rough, with some outdated animations and bland models, not to mention gameplay sequences that fail to transmit the intentions, that it mostly feels like a big disappointment from Mi'pu'mi after the surprising The Lion's Song.
