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EXTRA LIFE
CONTINUED ADVENTURES IN GAMING
Your rooftop is the first place
to test your gardening skills.
“The act of gardening is a communal
one, and community comes first”
LearningpatienceandkindnessinMUTAZIONE
W hen I first played RACHEL WAT TS Joined together by this catastrophic
Mutazione, I couldn’t
event, a community started to rebuild
quite gel with the
THIS MONTH
on top of the ruins in what is now
Escaped into the outlandish
rhythm and vibe it
was going for. I’ve fantasy of owning a garden. called the Mutazione.
You play as a teenager called Kai
played plenty of chill games before, ALSO PLAYED who has arrived to care for her sick
but I’ve never experienced anything StillThere,LostEmber grandfather, the community shaman.
as leisurely as this indie adventure. Upon arrival, he gifts her a small
It calls itself “a mutant soap opera drum and asks her to take over his
where small-town gossip meets the Stardew Valley and The Botanist, and responsibilities as he recovers.
supernatural”, so I was ready for in the upcoming Ooblets you even Mostly that just means joining the
drama and tea to be spilled. What I grow new friends. But in Mutazione, community in looking after one
wasn’t prepared for was to end up it is a purely selfless act. When you another, and Kai learns that the drum
consoling a grieving cat lady in a plant and nurture a garden, it’s can encourage gardens to flourish.
melancholic garden I had grown because you want to do it for
especially for her. someone else. The act of gardening is
a communal one, and community WITH GARDENING, ONE
Gardening has been used as a comes first in this world. After a QUALITY IS OF THE UTMOST
gameplay and storytelling mechanic meteor destroyed a holiday resort,
in many games. You raise plants and the landscape and its survivors IMPORTANCE: PATIENCE
crops for money in titles such as started to grow strange mutations.
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