I played the "new" Plants vs. Zombies 3

Pros
- You can now give feedback for whether a level was good or not at the end of each level by giving it thumbs down or thumbs up. Spoilers: most of them, are not.
Cons
- You can't choose your own plants. Is there more to say?
- Energy system. Mobile game energy system is an instant putoff for me.
- Competitive leaderboard is dumb. They didn't learn from arena mode. The idea of killing zombies on a certain column is actually stupid, and I cannot fathom how come they still do not understand that people want Versus Mode, not this bullshit of killing zombies on a certain column to gain points.
- The sun meta is now 1 sun meta, which is an extremely dumb design choice because you cannot make balance changes as easily to the cost of plants since you have literally no flexibility.
- The entire game feels like a tutorial and spoonfeeds every bit of information to you, which breaks the spirit of the Plants vs Zombies franchise, as plants and zombies should not need to be explained in-depth with dedicated tutorial levels to be understood. Peashooters shoots peas and Sunflowers make sun. It's as simple as that, and dedicating a tutorial for every single little game mechanic, it's fucking ridiculous.
- The levels are way too short. 3 waves and you're done. The levels are not impactful or meaningful in any way shape or form; you might as well forget about half the levels that exist.
- The task system is fucking pointless. Why go around collecting task tickets if you could just make the story progress itself after each level?
- The microtransactions. Instant-kills are still walled off by a paywall as powerups, and this is a massive issue especially because the new competitive leaderboard depends on the specific column you kill a zombie in, and having instant-kills is a direct competitive advantage for anyone to get a higher ranking over others.
- The story is stupid. Nobody cares about PvZ lore, and no one is here for a story. Crazy Dave isn't meant to be explained, just like in both PvZ1 and PvZ2, his origin story makes no sense at all and that's fine. Now suddenly adding some backstory and dialogue for this character, it's just plain dumb.
- The story cutscenes are way too slow. Literally, there's more time spent on the story compared to the actual gameplay itself. It is extremely boring.
- The gameplay is uninspiring. I played like 18 levels and there's no a single new zombie that actually feels any bit threatening and it introduces new zombies WAY too slowly.
- The gameplay is repetitive. PvZ1 and PvZ2 both did a great job fitting in gimmick levels once in a while to shake things up and not make the game super repetitive. There's none of that here, and it fucking sucks.
- Poor description of plants. Unnecessarily long explanation of what plants do, with cheesy comments that make 0 sense for why they're there. It's not flavoured text, it's not funny and the jokes don't land.
- The lawn is fucking dull. Why is there a smoke cloud covering the zombies? Could you not have thought of something more interesting to put in the background, or just shift the entire lawn to the right so that's not a problem? It just feels like they ran out of art budget so they had to just use a random ass purple fog to cover empty space.
- Names. Why can't I name myself "RCCH" or "RCCHYT" or "DaRealRCCH" and I have to name myself "Ronald" for it to be appropriate? Ridiculous.
- Reused sounds. Almost all the sounds in this game are reused from PvZ1 and PvZ2. No new sound effects, only just some art changes and making the game 3D for the sake of it being 3D. It seems like they ran out of budget in the sound department too.
- Music sucks. I genuinely could not say a good thing about the music. It's not memorable, it's not mysterious, it's just bland and doesn't have the same complexity as the music in both PvZ1 and PvZ2.
- Updates are slow and have achieved nothing. They don't listen to the feedback that we've given, and it sucks that the game has basically not evolved at all since its debut.
- Characters are unrelatable. I don't care about their existence, and they're completely irrelevant to the gameplay of the entire game.
- Dr. Zomboss' perspective is introduced to the player. One thing about PvZ1 and PvZ2 is that they have always not given context as to Zomboss' perspective and why he is doing what he does. Which is the exact reason why the game is good because there shouldn't be any reason to understand why a zombie is invading since they have nothing to do but to eat your brains. Instead this game tells us his plan of stinking up Neiborville for some reason, when that plan is completely irrelevant to the gameplay itself.
- Levels are way too easy. The 5 lane system is not even introduced until much later and the game literally gives you so many pre-planted plants you don't even have to think half the time since it's so stupid.

Overall Score: 1/10. The game is completely not ready for release and they probably need at least 2 more years of work to go and fix up all the problems with the game with the current pace they're working at. I don't see myself playing this game again because it sucks. Unless there's something fun like versus mode in like Day 100.

As a gardenscapes player, i see this as a W

I love pvz 3 new version be ause EA give back the game that we said sucks but I love pvz 3

I personally like the pvz lore, but in the way it was presented in pvz1. Here it feels like they intentionally made it long so they could drop more levels for the stupid energy mechanic.

Deleted after 1 day, it's just boring. They took all the fun elements out of the game. Now you are just watching your refresh timers go down. The biggest mechanic for PVZ1 or 2 was plant selection and now that has gone everything has just dumbed down, linear story and what is the point in tacos if you only can choose one thing to do, also it has no bearing on the level you are going to play anyway and you can just play levels anyway and rack up tacos - there's just no point to them.

Most of the level needs a powerup and that sucks because usually i don't spend real money on a game,,,and I'll just wait for modded version i guess hahaha

I loved pvz1 its the best, pvz2 is pay to win which removes the fun from the game, this is just pvz for gen alpha toddlers.

Too childish

i loved pvz(so much i'm even playing it again),
disliked pvz2.
and from the little i saw in your video i hate pvz3
not even gonna play it.

Quite sad RCCH that your recording software left you in order to play sudoku.

From what I've seen

Nothing's changed from the previous beta, still looks awful. What happened to this franchise man?

Plants vs. Zombies 3 looks cheep

It's fine all we have to do is wait pvz4 :)

You know...
Both PvZs have an OST called: Choose Your Seeds
(may I add, phenomenal OST by Laura Shigihara, like really, banger)

I think this is a pretty ironical turn of events which, oh man, I wish it was all just a prank and we would wake up to like, PvZ 3 is being lead George Fan! Or something like that.
Man, do I miss 'em

pvz3 is so boring i almost fell asleep (PRO TIP: DO NOT WATCH AT NIGHT)

this feels more like a shitty plants versus zombies rip off game than an actual sequel

“hand holding” the game 💀🙏

We are sleeping through the game

I like how one guy named himself thisgamesucks

All the gacha and ancillary bullshit aside, the idea of a point scoring mechanic based on which column you kill zombies in is great.

PvZ3 is unintentionally the best thing to happen to the PvZ franchise just because it’s making so many people who haven’t played it in a while go back to playing the first 2 games.

"Commited sudoku" Either a misspel or purposeful joke, it had me rolling nevertheless.

I like the plants versus zombies lore. Which is why I read the comics. Shovelling lore diwn your throat like this in game is just awful D:

Also, I love Crazy Dave, why'd they do this to him 😭😭

pvz 2 >>> pvz 3

It’s just sad

This game literally doowngraded and im dissapointed, they couldve done anything else except gardenscapes, like puzzle(not match), platformer, maker, or even a remake, but they went with this

One of the things I hate about this game, is that it forces you to put sunflowers in front, and im not used to that and i think its disgusting and stupid and sjskdjsksjdkskskskdkd

Just saying that I hate when the plants are characters.

PvZ3 is bad but……..







You guys just want the PvZ1 but different

Weird that you said no one need tutorial. Expecting everyone already know how to play pvz. Even in pvz 1 there are tutorials too :v

i cant beat level 64 without 3 more starting sun

Fun fact: Outside of four powerups there only 11 plants in the WHOLE GAME. Bet their going lock the rest behind a pay wall at 12.00$ per plant after they take four years to update. Good job making a extremely repetitive garden scape clone, thats impossible without powerups, out of one of your biggest IP's 👏

why couldnt they just make pvz2 but better

Id love to have seen WHY the game is so bad but all I got was This is so bad, bruh. This sucks, bruh. Nobody cares, bruh. Who cares about the story, bruh. Bruh, bruh, bruh.

Every time he says no one cares I care a lot

"Bro nobody cares"
-the entire community

The older PVZ 3 looks more fun 💀 what is popcap doing this looks like shit

the storylines in GW2 are interesting and actually kind of charming.
but they aren't forced down your throat every minute, they aren't completely annoying and they don't have cartoon for toddlers level writing.

Having a limited number of lives and not being able to select what kind of plants you want to take into battle is some monumental horseshit!

I can get passed some of the minor the shit this game pulls, like Sun being in 1 and 2, instead of 25 to 50. And the cherry Bomb and the other one shots being reserved for a separate thing, and there being only one lawnmower.

But ripping the whole fun of coming up with a battle strategy just takes half the fun away, also the limited lives are completely an EA (give us your fucking money) move.

So your name is ronald

Don’t get me wrong, I played PvZ1 for the first time when I was pretty young, but this looks like it was made for literal toddlers.

PvZ was already simple enough for kids, while still being fun, they didn’t need to dumb it down like this.

... Oh no it's Gardenscapes' mobile release again.

How do you get the game I’ve been trying forever

This isn’t PVZ, It’s a shit mobile game pretending to be PVZ

i love the most things about it, but the gardenscape aspect is really bad, atleast for now

I played PVZ1 on PC around when it came out as a kid, and played PVZ2 at day 1. I liked the first one better due to all the content being in the game (I didn’t wanna pay for snow pea), but at least it still felt like a plants vs zombies game, and was enjoyable with good music and unique plants.

This isn’t even plants vs zombies. It’s like they haven’t even played a PVZ game. It takes out everything enjoyable and is left with a soulless mobile game.

PV1 is good, PVZ 2 is good, PVZ Heros is good, PVZ garden warefare is good, PVZ garden warfare 2 is good, PVZ Beautiful Town a Fan made game is Good... But PVZ 3 IS SO BAD i don't even wanna touch the game