Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-24508466-20141215223823/@comment-1764483-20141224190443

It's really an exploit.

I think this occurs because the zombies don't have a particular save file, and going to the Zen Garden makes it forget about the zombies, flag number, and now, the levle setup, and re-selects it later.

In fact, in the 2.1 and 2.2 updates, the Zen Garden trick could give all plants and certain circumstances, such as extreme lag, could make one's EZ reset to 0 for no apparent reason other than the game being a dick cheney. The 2.3 update fixed both of these, but the zombies are a different story. In fact, the seed selection screen is the only screen nowadays that lets you retire from an EZ.

Before that, you had restarting the app. Oh yeah, and almost all EZs are broken anyway, so until zombies can be balanced and counterable, the Zen Garden is nearly a must-use.

This is like the level in Sonic 2006 where Silver has to push pool balls into holes. There's a way to skip it... and it's a glitch. Having to use a glitch in order to avoid a ludicrous situation is a great sign of terrible level design.