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game go I didn’t have any major bugs but I do have some issues.  A few of the biomes feature plants that explode when you get close.  In the first area, they not only deal damage but blind you for ten seconds as well.  In the second, instead of making you blind, they stick you in place until you press the B button numerous times.  There are booster drinks you can take to make their secondary effects be negated but I found those damned plants ruined the flow of gameplay for me whenever they were around.  This mostly relaxed title saw me bouncing around losing most of my health half-blinded until I was lucky enough to find the right booster and making as many as I could.  Outside of that the gameplay loop is a great mix of decent platforming, engaging takes on how you have to clean creatures\u002Fenvironments, and rewarding 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It’s all been done before and better elsewhere, and sadly the game doesn’t take the chance to connect anything together or really explore anything in depth.","2025-03-15T20:36:40.235942-04:00",{"id":378,"logo":391,"name":392,"slug":393,"tags":26,"bluesky":394,"twitter":392,"youtube":395,"facebook":392,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":396,"website_url":397,"score_format":178,"average_score":203,"default_timezone":48,"last_review_date":398,"stats_updated_at":399,"headquarters_city":26,"news_editor_email":400,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":320,"active_authors_count":401,"headquarters_country":26,"reviews_editor_email":402,"editor_in_chief_email":403,"published_authors_count":93,"published_reviews_count":404},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FGamingTrend-Logo.jpg","GamingTrend","gamingtrend","gamingtrend.com","@GamingTrendVideos","From the table to the screen, and everything in between!","https:\u002F\u002Fgamingtrend.com","2025-07-14","2025-07-16T19:33:01.762266","news@gamingtrend.com",8,"reviews@gamingtrend.com","rburke@gamingtrend.com",805,{"id":406,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":407,"author":408,"original_score":276,"normalized_score":62,"review_url":416,"review_date":251,"summary":417,"created_at":418,"updated_at":418,"author_id":409,"last_edited_at":418,"outlet":419},62069,27,{"id":409,"bio":26,"name":410,"avg_score":411,"outlet_id":26,"created_at":412,"profile_id":413,"updated_at":414,"claim_token":26,"article_count":415,"claimed_by_user_id":413},3923,"Kim Snaith",74.45797807551766,"2025-01-17T06:40:44.005933-05:00","9831ce29-32fc-40dc-b7d6-342d11d31842","2026-08-19T14:09:20.565917-04:00",821,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gamespew.com\u002F2024\u002F08\u002Fcreatures-of-ava-review\u002F","A genuinely pleasant surprise, Creatures of Ava is an excellent adventure game for those who want something a little less demanding and stressful than the mainstream. Gathering the titular creatures is an enjoyable experience, but so is exploring this beautiful world and engaging with its mysterious and quirky denizens. Excellently written and gorgeously animated, there's a great deal to love here.","2025-01-26T18:24:43.855176-05:00",{"id":407,"logo":420,"name":421,"slug":422,"tags":423,"bluesky":424,"twitter":422,"youtube":425,"facebook":426,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":427,"website_url":428,"score_format":46,"average_score":93,"default_timezone":48,"last_review_date":26,"stats_updated_at":49,"headquarters_city":26,"news_editor_email":429,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":349,"reviews_editor_email":429,"editor_in_chief_email":429,"published_authors_count":17,"published_reviews_count":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FGameSpew-Logo.jpg","GameSpew","gamespew","[  \n  'independent',\n  'women_led',\n  'online_media'\n  ]","gamespew.com","UChqYxsfGxsXwrZ76wm7_bWQ","officialgamespew","Your independent site for gaming news, reviews, features, guides and more. For gamers, by gamers.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gamespew.com","hello@gamespew.com",{"id":431,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":432,"author":433,"original_score":440,"normalized_score":441,"review_url":442,"review_date":251,"summary":443,"created_at":444,"updated_at":444,"author_id":434,"last_edited_at":445,"outlet":446},21233,15,{"id":434,"bio":26,"name":435,"avg_score":436,"outlet_id":26,"created_at":437,"profile_id":26,"updated_at":438,"claim_token":26,"article_count":439,"claimed_by_user_id":26},2572,"Nairon Santos de Morais",70.96153846153847,"2024-12-03T06:59:15.094069-05:00","2025-04-10T10:55:02.858613-04:00",52,"5\u002F10",50,"https:\u002F\u002Fgameluster.com\u002Fcreatures-of-ava-review-creatures-of-average\u002F","Creatures of Ava is a mostly mediocre experience with few things to keep you interested and, across the board, rather mediocre execution of its ideas.","2024-12-03T08:19:13.595736-05:00","2024-12-29T20:20:33.816897-05:00",{"id":432,"logo":447,"name":448,"slug":449,"tags":450,"bluesky":451,"twitter":448,"youtube":448,"facebook":448,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":26,"claimed_at":26,"description":452,"website_url":453,"score_format":46,"average_score":105,"default_timezone":48,"last_review_date":454,"stats_updated_at":455,"headquarters_city":26,"news_editor_email":456,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":26,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":26,"reviews_editor_email":457,"editor_in_chief_email":458,"published_authors_count":459,"published_reviews_count":460},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FGameluster-logo.jpg","GameLuster","gameluster","[  \n  'independent',\n  'women_led',\n  'online_media',\n  'ingestion_pending'\n  ]","gameluster.bsky.social","Your source for gaming news, reviews, and features, driven by a passionate crew of diverse gamers and content creators!","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gameluster.com","2025-10-15","2026-04-24T13:42:44.708699","bobby@gameluster.com","jess@gameluster.com","axel@gameluster.com",45,373,{"id":462,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":463,"author":464,"original_score":471,"normalized_score":472,"review_url":473,"review_date":251,"summary":474,"created_at":475,"updated_at":475,"author_id":465,"last_edited_at":445,"outlet":476},2194,1,{"id":465,"bio":26,"name":466,"avg_score":467,"outlet_id":463,"created_at":468,"profile_id":469,"updated_at":470,"claim_token":26,"article_count":84,"claimed_by_user_id":469},9,"Andrew Stretch",75.94244604316546,"2024-10-07T11:28:07.209331-04:00","d492c0c6-99b2-419c-b638-99f91c75ad66","2026-07-27T11:19:20.350921-04:00","8.5",85,"https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net\u002Fgaming\u002Freviews\u002Fcreatures-of-ava-review-mystery-of-avatar-with-song-in-its-step","Creatures of Ava is a wonderful adventure that wraps together an interesting story about humankind's view of nature, exploration of a beautiful alien world, and interesting creature taming mechanics. While I'd wish to continue exploring this game a major detriment is how you get locked out of half the game as you play through it.","2024-10-08T12:02:59.76578-04:00",{"id":463,"logo":477,"name":478,"slug":479,"tags":71,"bluesky":480,"twitter":478,"youtube":481,"facebook":478,"mastodon":26,"muckrack":482,"claimed_at":26,"description":483,"website_url":484,"score_format":46,"average_score":105,"default_timezone":48,"last_review_date":485,"stats_updated_at":486,"headquarters_city":487,"news_editor_email":488,"platforms_covered":26,"claimed_by_user_id":489,"reviews_this_month":320,"active_authors_count":320,"headquarters_country":206,"reviews_editor_email":490,"editor_in_chief_email":491,"published_authors_count":492,"published_reviews_count":493},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FTechRaptor%20Logo.png","TechRaptor","techraptor","techraptor.net","@techraptor","https:\u002F\u002Fmuckrack.com\u002Fmedia-outlet\u002Ftechraptor","TechRaptor is a gaming website that covers topics around video games and tabletop games for gamers.  Whether it is news, reviews, features, or guides – we're your source for high quality game coverage since 2013.","https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net","2026-04-16","2026-04-21T12:25:16.686278","Indianapolis","jallen@techraptor.net","8df87287-e31d-40dd-bd62-4fe839efbe0e","sam@techraptor.net","aotton@techraptor.net",144,1466]