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The garden has been infected with something and the plants GROW faster. You drive a mower to cut the bad plants!
TWO button controls:
- Left Arrow: left
- Right Arrow: right
This game is made with Unity and the graphics with Paint.net (and megadrive color palette). Music with Beatlab and sfx with Bfxr.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 71% |
| #476 | Humor | 2.37 |
| #509 | Audio | 2.58 |
| #526 | Graphics | 3.00 |
| #546 | Theme | 3.65 |
| #579 | Mood | 2.82 |
| #653 | Fun | 2.92 |
| #658 | Overall | 3.03 |
| #778 | Innovation | 2.60 |
Comments
A really fun game and I loved the graphics, but the bombs didn't seem to do anything.
The bombs tank your time!
I scored 99. Cool game that uses both themes.
3 runs too, best score also 73. Got to say, it's rather cool how you put some effort into a seamless presentation, with that menu screen animation and everything. A little tricky to control - I guess a somewhat bigger garden or a smaller turn radius would have opened up more options for the player. Fun and surprisingly immersive nonetheless.
99 too. But is enough challenging and a good theme interpretation. Good work!
Fun little game! Steering frustratingly wide lol. Like the monster plant too.
Fun game, generical game mechanics, a little bit too hard to control. Good Job :)
Very good! I scored 88. Nice menu and art. I think the turning could be a little faster. The game would be more fast paced. But I enjoyed it! Nice job!
changing levels after everything is cut rather than having it regrow would have kept things fresh, and sometimes it was frustrating that an unavoidable bomb would spawn under me when moving. otherwise a simple but solid effort.
Nice entry! Well presented :)
The turning circle felt a little wide but other than that, good job!
Love it! My record is 97 after the fourth attempt, very fun and good to the theme, although maybe some power-ups other than time boost would be welcome, such as improving handling. Fantastic game though, no major complaints.
Bombs appearing out of nowhere is a major annoyance. It mostly works like a slot machine.
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3 runs, best score: 73! I tried to cut the big mutant plant, but I died everytime before I could make it U_U
Good work!