There’s plenty to do after the main quest is done, put it that way. In addition to the challenges there’s a wealth of side quests to fulfil including searching for lost little bees and seeing off the spider queen amongst others. You have to copy the sequence of ups, downs, lefts or rights to progress. They’re a simple memory game where you have to match the movements of the bee you’re opposite. It’s daft but does the trick.įinally dance-offs are a cute way to communicate how real-life bees tell their counterparts where good sources of pollen may lie. ![]() He’s the bully challenge to see off, this time by spotting him and stinging him to deter him. There’s a stupid kid who delights in destroying flowers. We’ve yet to get caught by a spider, we had to deliberately mess up to confirm there’s no penalty as such besides having to try again. They’re literally a case of triggering your escape as the moving meter goes past the green section. Spider web traps are gently introduced while still in your original hive. Accordingly, the colour coding in this scent view is probably more like what bees actually see. In this case we’ll give it a bit of slack as bees are much more likely to find flowers by scent alone. Said view is nothing like Batman’s detective vision. Annoyingly your beetro gauge isn’t retained in races which adds to the chore.Ĭollection challenges are just that, find several of a predetermined pollen type, be it common, uncommon, rare or EPIC!!! *Ahem* Either way, you can make the distinction between each pollen type by clicking the right thumbstick and entering an alternate view. Outside of races you can fill your sprint aka Beetro mode (a play on nitro we guess) by landing on sweet foods like cupcakes or discarded banana skins. Arbitrary roadblocks to story progress in a game of this nature are categorically never a good thing. Both instances led to us switching our PS4 off for the evening before having a go the following day. The first chase is almost as bad, but you have a little more leeway. ![]() In the case of the story the sequence with the drone is an egregious example in terms of having a tiny margin of error before reaching a fail state. You can be doing quite well on the face of it, then suddenly your opponent speeds away and you have to retry. Chases are probably our least favourite mode, mainly due to the main quest being punctuated by two particularly annoying instances. In addition to fight challenges you can complete chases, spider web escapes, bully and dance challenges. In reality this means you can complete freeplay objectives. Once you’re done with the story, you can come and go as you please. Admittedly the easy difficulty level may have meant we were given a bit more leeway than if we played on a harder difficulty. Besides having to revisit the fight in question for a specific trophy anyway. Our only defeat came against a hornet as part of a story sequence, with no discernible penalty. In fact you can proceed without doing much more than tapping the buttons in sequence. As you do so there’s a power meter that fills up, eventually giving you the ability to unleash a powerful combo.There’s a bit more to these fights but the mechanic isn’t introduced in the best manner. Wasps, hornets and their ilk are seen off with a Parappa-like rhythm action fight sequence, with to block and to attack. Graphically Bee Simulator isn’t all that sophisticated, but the graphics do the job in the Unreal Engine implementation Varsav have used. After all, you’re a bee not an AH64 Apache. There’s not a massive amount of nuance in the flight model, but there doesn’t need to be. This makes you more like those stingy wasp pricks but a necessary mechanic.įlight is straightforward in terms of you push forward to move and hold to climb and to descend. As opposed to the reality of one sting and your arse being torn out as you fly off and die, you get to sting anything you like. But the manner in which they’re dispatched is very much in thrall to videogames. You come up against various hazards, just as bees do in reality. ![]() You start out hatching from a larval stage and are gently introduced to the game mechanics as the newest member of the hive. However this is fairly brief, broken down into eight distinct chapters. There’s a story mode of sorts which culminates in your finding a new hive for the bee colony. But for most part Bee Simulator is broken down into a series of disparate minigames. Sure, you go around collecting pollen and exploring a simulacrum of Central Park. However the title is something of a misnomer. Novemin PS4 / Reviews tagged central park / minigames / omgbees / varsav / why did it have to be bees by Ianįrom Polish dev Varsav Games comes Bee Simulator, published by BigBen.
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