Itโ€™s Spring Again review for PS Vita

Platform: PS Vita
Publisher: Sometimes You
Developer: Sometimes You
Medium: Digital
Players: 1
Online: No
ESRB: E

Iโ€™m almost certainly the wrong audience for Itโ€™s Spring Again. After all, itโ€™s an educational game designed for very young children learning about the seasons; Iโ€™m a childfree 37-year-old. I donโ€™t intend on ever being in a position where I need to teach a youngโ€™un about the seasons, and if I havenโ€™t figured those out for myself by now, the education system failed me significantly somewhere along the line.

Having said all that, I can still imagine that if you were a parent teaching a child about the seasons โ€” or if you, yourself, are 2 years old and learning them (in which case: congrats on being at such an advanced reading level!) โ€” you could do a lot worse than Itโ€™s Spring Again. Itโ€™s a gentle game full of bright colours, playful music, and a narrator with a soothing voice who, against all odds, never sounds that patronizing. Sure, itโ€™s a little repetitive, but thereโ€™s a lot to be said for rote learning, and Itโ€™s Spring Again clearly shares that attitude.

If you arenโ€™t a part of that coveted 2-year-old demographic (or at least know someone that age), you probably wonโ€™t get too much out of this game, though itโ€™s interesting to consider how similar Itโ€™s Spring Again is to artsy games like Hohokum, Eufloria, or Flower. Obviously they all have more content, but if you were to stretch Itโ€™s Spring Again out for a longer period of time and take out the narrator, itโ€™d be tough to tell the difference.

And, if nothing else, if you want to see a 100% in your trophy list and want to achieve that with only a few dollars and a couple of minutes spent on it, then at approximately $2 and 10-15 minutes, respectively, Itโ€™s Spring Again will absolutely do the trick.

Really, though, this game is meant to played by โ€” or at least with โ€” young kids. I donโ€™t know what the other options are (or if they even exist on the Vita), but it feels like you could do a lot worse than Itโ€™s Spring Again.

Grade: B+
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