You can then snatch a fowl out of the resultant trip, which is displayed above the meditator. In order to nab all of the birds, you have to engage in some rather odd scenes, including one where you click on various bulbs to make a meditating plant-man hallucinate. You need these avians because a seed-person requires them to activate the village's transport system, which includes fourteen hamster wheels for the fowl to run on that harvest their kinetic energy and use it to propel the entire burg into the sky. For instance, one segment requires you to search a village and recover fourteen chicken-like birds. You see, Botanicula is a weird title with strange objectives. I know that last sentence sounds dry and technical, but that's the best way I can describe the game without going into graphic, sanity-destroying detail. You accomplish this by observing the game's peculiar environment, clicking on various objects and hoping that you're doing it all in the correct sequence. This graphic adventure revolves around a quintet of sentient, botanical beings who attempt to take back their home, a massive tree, from a swarm of spider-like parasites. 'I'm so not doing this game any justice.'īotanicula is not a good conversation starter if you're socially awkward, like me. Uh, something about the spiders sucking the life out of the tree, which is like a home for the.

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