Every once in a thousand years a game comes along that redefines the meaning of cute! This is not really that game. Although it is cute. It involves flowers, but not necessarily hippies as far as I can tell. It is a platformer, although it’s not scrolling. It is actually another game from Spell of Play, but it’s completely opposite of T.W.T.P.B. The one, the only….BLOOOOOOOOM! The totally awesome game about picking flowers…or not. Okay, okay, I’m not actually picking on Bloom and this is not going to be a negative review. I just meant the or not part if you didn’t really like picking flowers, or if you aren’t a girl. Most girls like picking flowers, so you may think it’s awesome if you’re a girl. Bloom is your typical platform-jumper-collect-things-get-to-the-exit game. However it’s quite interesting. It’s fun (if somewhat frustrating, but more on that later), it’s nice looking, almost-retro-quality-but-not-quite. The music is calming as well as the sounds. It makes me think of the original Ray-man a bit (in the sound department). Would I buy it (if I could) ? You betcha. Actually I’m quite liking the few spell of play games I’ve already played. Maybe we’ll see more reviews of them in the future. Anyways if you want to know more, please read after watching this video of the game in action.
You can read more here. Please I need all the eyes I can get, read the whole thing!
What is the definition of bump? Well I asked Google to define it for me. A note here though, I don’t know where Google comes up with it’s definitions, I assume it’s from various dictionary sources. Or I could have just gone to a dictionary. However Google is easier because all I have to do is type define:bump in a search and it pulls it up. So Google defines the word bump as a) knock against with force or violence, b) find: come upon, as if by accident, c) dance with the pelvis thrust forward, d) a lump on the body caused by a blow, e) to demote (actually I’ve never heard it used in this context, except if someone said bump down, technically speaking bump is upward or outward so I don’t think demote really holds, I guess “you’ve been bumped” would constitute a demotion, but I don’t know, generally speaking we usually like to say the direction of the bump, ie bumped down, bumped up), f) bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from it’s surroundings, g) dislodge: remove or force froma position of dwelling previously occupied, h) blow: an impact (as from a collision). These are your main bump dictionary definitions. Well now that I’ve obviously used some space as filler, what does that have to do with today’s game? Well if you haven’t guessed already, the game is called “Bumps” by Utopian Games.