{"id":23955,"date":"2023-12-25T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23955"},"modified":"2023-11-20T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T06:00:57","slug":"garden-buddies-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/25\/garden-buddies-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Buddies (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/garden_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-23953 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GARDEN_BOX-150x121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GARDEN_BOX-150x121.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GARDEN_BOX.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Meet Mutsy, a walking apple with eyes who wants to grow a garden and invite friends over for a dance party.\u00a0 Help Mutsy do this by designing your own garden and playing mini-games, and even learn some calming exercises along the way.\u00a0 Garden Buddies is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n<p>The main mode of the game is Story Mode.\u00a0 Here you\u2019ll view the events of around five days where Mutsy discovers a patch of land to make a garden, and friends like acorns, bats, frogs, mushrooms etc. will visit and have a problem to solve.\u00a0 You\u2019ll interact with Mutsy via a cursor, like on a PC mouse.\u00a0 At some points in the story, you\u2019ll be prompted to build a certain thing in your garden, or play a mini-game.\u00a0 But if the mini-game is too hard, you can always skip it.\u00a0 Luckily the only time that happened with me was with the guitar playing mini-game, which was way too difficult for this kind of game.\u00a0 Also at some points in the story, you\u2019ll also learn a calming technique like box breathing, affirmations, and more.\u00a0 Which is good\u2026I guess?<\/p>\n<p>Designing your garden is easy and menu based.\u00a0 You can place things on your screen and a half patch of land when you have enough flowers for currency, but you can always get more by planting seeds, which eliminates any sort of strategy.\u00a0 You can place flowers, stones, ponds, rocks, and other structures like a swing or acorn house.\u00a0 Aside from in the story mode, you can also freely design a garden and play the mini-games separately in the other modes.\u00a0 My only big problem with the game is that Story Mode takes about an hour or so to beat, so there\u2019s not much of a game here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/garden_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GARDEN_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GARDEN_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GARDEN_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GARDEN_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must because everything is text based. \u00a0Garden Buddies is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Mutsy, a walking apple with eyes who wants to grow a garden and invite friends over for a dance party.\u00a0 Help Mutsy do this by designing your own garden and playing mini-games, and even learn some calming exercises along the way.\u00a0 Garden Buddies is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here. 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