Gardens Inc. 2: The Road to Fame

It's a game wherein you learn to scan your screen for stuff for everyone to do, while dealing with obstacles that pop up and bonuses that become available and managing your resources, trying to anticipate what you're going to need soon and choosing the right actions accordingly. It's packaged in a story about building up a gardening business and winning a contest, and it's a little cheesy and less than compelling to me, but I don't feel like it's the main point of the game. The gameplay itself satisfies some kind of itch that for some reason makes it hard to play just one level and put it down, although it's completely possible to do so and each level takes only a few minutes, so it's something you can pick up and put down easily. For me, it's not quite as fun as the first entry to the series, somehow. Some of the new obstacles (like vandals who destroy your plants and buildings) are pretty annoying, while not remedying things that were previously pretty annoying (like randomly-appearing ghosts that may spawn back to back endlessly, preventing any of your workers from doing anything for a long period of time.) There seems to be little motivation to me to redo a level if I didn't get gold time the first time. While the addition of choices for decor this time around instead of a static scene you unlock is nice, I didn't feel particularly inspired by it or as though there was any rush to fix up the place, unlike the house you were trying to save in the previous game. It's more or less the same gameplay, though, so if you're into it, go for it. If you have the opportunity, though, I'd personally recommend the previous entry in the series over this one. Overall, though, I don't regret playing it, and would recommend it to someone who's into this type of game, though perhaps not to any random gamer friend of mine.