Garten of Banban was released in January 2023 for smartphones and PC, its developer and publisher on smartphones and PC are euphoric brothers.
This game has reached five million players on smartphones in a short period of time, which is a good number, but considering the fact that it is free and the number of mobile players is not a unbelievable number.
So when a game is successful on one platform, why not release it on other platforms as well?
Garten of Banban was released in May 2024 for PS5 and PS4 and is published by feardemic, a well-known horror game publisher.
When a game is released for mobile, PC and consoles, the biggest question is which platform was the main target. If PC and console were the main platforms and it was made with their standards, then it is good for mobile too and It can satisfy mobile players too, but is the reverse the same? If the main target was mobile, can it satisfy PC and console players as well?
STORY
The story is so little and lacking in detail that it is clear that the slightest importance has not been given to it, only at the time of starting the game in a one-line text you realize that you are playing as someone who has lost your child and then the game starts in the kindergarten.
All that is added to the story after that one-line story is a letter written in a child’s handwriting, saying that he/she is hidden in a room but must fight a monster to save his/her friend, and in the letter there was a drawing of the bird in the kindergarten playroom as a monster.
This is the whole story of the game and it has no beginning and no end.
GAMEPLAY
The gameplay is very simple and unchallenging and not even scary, at the beginning of the game you find a keycard and use it to open a door to a small room which you find a drone and its controller that has no battery.
so you go to another room to find the batteries and there is no challenge in finding the batteries, you just walk up to them and pick them up, then using the drone you can press buttons on the walls that your hand can’t reach.
After this, all the puzzles in the game are just finding parts or pressing buttons with the drone, none of them are difficult and they are very easy, there is one puzzle in a part of the game that is different from the rest and that It is not difficult, but after completing it, the only part of the game that is a bit scary and is a bit thrilling happens , which lasts under a minute and the game returns to the previous state, it takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete this game.
The gameplay is short and not horror at all.
VISUALS
Visually, Garten of Banban is an mediocre mobile game and it is not at all compatible with the visual standards of console and PC, and the only difference between the console version and the mobile version is its resolution, which is higher on the console.
The game map is very empty and without details, and the same empty and without details map is very small, if the doors are unlocked, you can go through it in about 50 seconds.
The only thing that makes the atmosphere of the game a little scary is the empty kindergarten.
CONCLUSION
In the end, Garten of Banban is a game without story that gives you a one-line story at the beginning of the game, a very short gameplay that lasts between 15 to 20 minutes, the puzzles are very easy and without challenges, apart from a short section there is no excitement or fear in the game, visually it is an mediocre mobile game.
The game is free on mobile and PC, but it is 2 dollars on PlayStation and I do not recommend buying it on PlayStation.
