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Leaf Blower Revolution: Idle Game Review
Leaf Blower Revolution: Idle Game Review
Leaf Blower Revolution starts out strong with fun upgrades and novel game mechanics, but starts to take its toll when the progression comes to all but a complete stop. Your experience may vary.
I had high hopes for Leaf Blower Revolution with its indie pixel art charm, and in my initial days with it. I had great fun in the early game progression moving my finger around to manipulate the leaves to off-screen when I had a spare moment on my phone. Those initial, novel first play sessions of gathering upgrades and blowing away leaves were really exciting, and I felt a true sense of progression, moving from one area to the next, or finally having enough for the next leaf upgrade, etc. I looked forward to opening the game, collecting the resources, and maybe spending a few minutes doing some manual resource collecting to see if I could acquire some major boosts to further increase my gains.
Everything was great until I reached the science portion of the game. Which, most players are bound to do at a certain point. The game will teach you about the converters and turning one resource into another, among a few other novel mechanics. But that’s where progression for me completely stopped. The pace of this game slowed down to a crawl, and my desire to play it began to dwindle.
I’m no stranger to idle games. Formally, I’ve written reviews for Infinite Paperclips, Cookie Clicker, and Melvor Idle. I’ve played at least a half dozen more exclusive to smartphones. Beyond this, I have a great love for factory type games. All of them have a wall somewhere. It’s something I’ve come to expect. In some other idler games, when you do hit this wall, is you scrap all the progress you’ve made for some in-game currency that helps you further upgrade the rate at which something happens. This in turn allows you to get back to the point you considered a ‘wall’, much quicker than before, and then you’re able to move on beyond that point until you hit another wall and do it all over again.
Leaf Blower Revolution has this mechanic as well. I hit my wall during the science portion, restarted the game, spent the “restart” currency and… The game played the same, back to the same wall in the science section. I thought that was odd, so I waited a bit longer, then restarted the game again. Played the game, and got stuck at the same spot. I’m a determined sucker of a player, so I thought SURELY, if I do this again, I can breach this stopping point. So, once again, I restarted the game… and stuck at the exact same spot. I was shortening the amount of time it takes to get to that gameplay wall, but because of the way the science, B.L.C., and ‘restart’ coins work, progression in those areas felt identical to the first time I encountered them, with each subsequent restart.
Perhaps if I keep playing and restarting the game, I could eventually get the upgrades I need to cross over this barrier. But from what I’m experiencing, it feels like it would take a significant number of them to obtain the wild amount of resources necessary to continue beyond that point and reach new areas in the game. And if I finally ventured into new territory, could the next roadblock be just as difficult to overcome? Would the game be any more satisfying? I find it hard to believe because I’ve already slowed my pace to logging on for only 30 seconds at a time, once a day, from the monotony of how it currently is. The magic has faded away.
Overall, I’m a fan of numbers going up, and idlers, but there are just a few choices in Leaf Blower Revolution that make the idling not worth my time and mindless meandering, even though it’s already making such a small footprint in my daily life. This is the conclusion I’ve reached after what I think may be 8 total hours of play. Your experience may vary. Thank you for reading.
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