Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-27053902-20180529023301/@comment-24275721-20180720213825

AstroNut1 wrote: TheGollddMAN wrote:

IAmPlayer wrote: But is this for International version though?

If it is, I can't believe they did this. After years of saying they won't add new worlds... they wanted to make one now, and it's from Chinese version? This is lazy. What's next? Bringing Eggplant Ninja and Tulip Trumpeter? Finish Icy Currant? If they did that by importing stuff from the Chinese version, that would be actually better for our crutch driven game. I honestly still think PvZ 2 Chinese is worse than PvZ 2 even after PvZ 2 got ruined.

Leveling in this game is even more forced as it's geniuinely impossible to progress without it due to having to beat levels on "hard mode" (same thing as nornal levels but with leveled up zombies) to unlock new worlds and complete whole hard mode to be able to fight Dr. Zomboss.

Most of PvZ 2 Chinese plants look bad and don't fit, Sky City is not even a time era and the game overall feels cluttered and is basically just grind to win (way easier grinding as you really just have to get in daily but there is no strategy or fun in the levels). You don't have to implement the Chinese leveling system at all or even if you have to, you can streamline it. Theer isn't a need for a point by point copy.

Chinese plants may look bad but most of the times, what they do (their attack pattern) is very interesting and you can always redesign them while bringing them here. They actually come up with neat plant ideas like a plant that uses Big Wave Beach's tides against the zombies by turning it into acid. How cool and innovative is that? PopCap never came up with such a thing but the Chinese did. They came up with one more pit gimmick for Lost City and also a plant to counter it while we got jackshit. All the exclusive stuff they have are actually pretty good. It's just that people just hate on them as they "look bad". Grinding for puzzle pieces aside, their leveling system gives plants some cool abilities and they also give plants new abilities via costumes while pur versions does nothing.

Sky City is not an era but it has a war theme which is an era in of itself, specifically the World Wars. They had the balls to put in a war themed world in their child friendly game while our devs snuck their tails in between their legs and ran away.