Plants vs. Zombies: Starstruck

Plants vs. Zombies: Starstruck (also formatted as PvZS or Starstruck) is a tower defense game developed by Popcap as a sequel to Plants vs. Zombies 3. In the tradition of every game using a different art style, PvZS sports an entirely new and unique design style. 
==Plot==
During a night-time annual meteor shower in Suburbia, a mysterious energy pulse knocks out the power grid and causes a city-wide blackout that plunges everything into darkness. The protagonist, Penny, and Crazy Dave arm themselves with Plants and go to investigate, only to find a horde of angry zombies that fight back!
==Update History==
<tabber>Update 1.4
====Patch Notes===
*Arena Season 2: Hallow's Horrors has begun!
*Take on the villainous Immorticia in Arena matches, and level up this season's new Battle Pass to unlock new costumes, perks, emotes, and more.
*Jack O' Lantern returns from PvZ2, more powerful than ever, and will be permanently purchasable in the Shop for 500,000 Coins.
===Balance Changes===
*Peacock is now more expensive: 150 Sun -> 225 Sun
*Peacock's pods now do less damage: 50 DPS -> 40 DPS
*Peacock's now fires faster: 4s -> 3s
|-|Update 1.3.2
====Patch Notes===
*World 4 and its Split Timeline have been revealed to be Tricky Tundra and Sunny Sands, respectively, and both are set to be released on September 11th, 2021.
*Cold Snapdragon was added to the game as an Early Access Plant for Tricky Tundra. It costs 100 Gems to unlock.
===Balance Changes===
*Fire Peashooter now does more damage per shot: 30 -> 45
*Fire Peashooter now has a slower fire rate: 1s -> 1.5s
|-|Update 1.3
====Patch Notes===
*A brand-new multiplayer Arena game mode has been added in the Adventure Arcade, pitting players against each other.
*With each win, the player earns experience, allowing them to progress in the brand new Battle Pass, earning more coins, perks, and new costumes. 
*The first season's Battle Pass is themed after pool parties and general summer celebrations, and replaces the former event of Summer Splashdown.
*With each season, a new Plant is also added to the Shop, and becomes purchasable for coins.
===Balance Changes===
*Birch Ball has been removed from the game.
*Fire Peashooter now costs 100 Gems instead of $4.99 to unlock. Players who previously purchased it for $4.99 receive a full refund.
*Garlic is now weaker: 2000 DPS -> 750 DPS
|-|Update 1.2=
===Patch Notes===
*Meteor Meadow and Weirding Woods have been added to the game, bringing a total of 12 new Plants and 5 new Zombies.
*Wall-Nut Bowling II, Vasebreaker III: Forest of Nightmares, and several other new minigames have been added to Adventure Arcade.
*Two new Challenge Packs have been added as well, adding extra levels to certain minigames.
===Balance Changes===
*Fire Peashooter now does less damage per shot: 40 -> 30
*Wall-Nut is now weaker: 4000 DPS -> 2000 DPS
*Milkcap is now weaker: 3000 DPS -> 1250 DPS
|-|Update 1.1.2=
===Patch Notes===
*World 3 and its Split Timeline have been revealed to be Meteor Meadow and Weirding Woods, respectively, and both are set to be released on July 24th, 2021.
*Fire Peashooter was added to the game as an Early Access Plant for Meteor Meadow. It costs $4.99 to unlock.
===Balance Changes===
*Puff-Shroom's Plant Food ability is now weaker.
*Fume-Shroom's Plant Food ability is now stronger.
*Gloom-Shroom is now more expensive: 225 -> 250
*Gloom-Shroom now does less damage: 100 -> 75
*Gloom-Shroom's spores now cover less distance.
*Gatling Pea's recharge is now longer: 5s -> 12s
*Twin Sunflower's recharge is now longer: 5s -> 15s
|-|Update 1.1=
===Patch Notes===
*With update 1.1, the new Invasion! gamemode was introduced, where players can battle endless waves of Zombies for coins, costumes, and other rewards.
*A new event has also begun to celebrate the sunny season: Summer Splashdown!
*Five new levels have been added as a new challenge for players, with the brand new Corn Dog awarded for completion.
*With the Summer Splashdown event comes a temporary Pool Invasion! gamemode in which players can unlock the special Birch Ball as well.
*The Sun system has been reverted to multiples of 25 to match the original PvZ and replace the PvZ2 system of 50.
===Balance Changes===
*Sunflower now produces 100 Sun after being fed Plant Food.
*Potato Mine is now cheaper: 50 -> 25.
*Marigold is now cheaper: 75 -> 50
*Marigold now produces 100 Sun instead of 150.
*Sun-Shroom now takes 60 seconds to grow from Medium to Big instead of 30.
*Fume-Shroom is now cheaper: 250 -> 150
*Coffee Bean is now cheaper: 50 -> 25
*Milkcap now recharges faster: 15s -> 10s
*Astro-Shroom is now cheaper: 150 -> 100
*Gloom-Shroom is now cheaper: 400 -> 225
*Doom-Shroom is now cheaper: 750 -> 500
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==Gameplay==
Plants vs. Zombies: Starstruck is a tower defense game like previous installments in the series. Unlike its predecessor, PvZ3, Starstruck is horizontal and 2D, and its board has again been resized to become 5x10.
===Worlds===
Levels of the game are divided into worlds, the first being a skippable tutorial called Player's House. Every world after the first world also contains a Split Timeline, a similar, smaller world with harder levels and stronger plants. A Split Timeline world can only be unlocked after completing a certain goal within its' main universe counterpart.
=== Seeds===
Seeds return from PvZ2 in similar fashion, each being specific to a certain Plant. Seeds can be used to buy upgrades on that Plant's Skill Tree. Certain Plants, such as those unlocked in Invasion!, are unlocked in the same manner as 'seedium' Plants from PvZ2, requiring a number of seeds to unlock and use.
===Piñatas===
Seeds are found in Piñatas, which make a return from PvZ2. There are several different types of Piñata:
*Player's House Piñata - A Piñata containing 50x seeds belonging to random Plants unlocked in the Player's House world.
*Night Piñata - A Piñata containing 50x seeds belonging to random Plant unlocked in the Blackout Night world.
* Random Piñata - A Piñata containing 50x random seeds for Plants the player has already unlocked.
* Guardian Piñata - A Piñata containing 50x seeds belonging to random, already unlocked Guardian Plants.
=== Plant Food ===
Plant Food returns in similar fashion to PvZ2, activating a brief but powerful effect from a Plant. Plant Food is now represented as a progress bar, giving one Plant Food for every 25 Zombies destroyed, and maxing at four Plant Food.
===Skill Trees===
Every Plant has a Skill Tree, containing one base upgrade and then two paths of three upgrades. Upgrades can be bought using Seeds that belong to that Plant's Family. After unlocking the first upgrade in a Skill Tree, the player must lock themselves into one of the two paths to take the Plant down, although the choice can be switched and the upgrades refunded after paying 500 coins.
===Brain Busters===
Brain Busters are levels that add different mechanics, conditions, or objectives to gameplay. These Brain Busters are:
*Side-Swap - Between waves, the board and all Plants switch directions. Zombies approach from where the house once was and the house becomes where they originally approached.
*Special Delivery - Instead of choosing Plants, Plants are sent to the player for free on a conveyor belt. Sun producers become unnecessary.
*Save Our Seeds - The player has to prevent Zombies from eating specific Plants, and lose if they do.
*Vasebreaker - The player must break vases to find Plants and Plant Food and use those Plants to defeat Zombies hidden in other vases.
*Immortals - The player can't allow three or more Plants to be destroyed.
*Unsodded - The first and last lanes can't be planted on.
* Locked and Loaded - The Plants are chosen for the player.
*Boss Battle - A Special Delivery level at the end of a world, usually with a boss such as a Gargantuar.
===Currency===
Coins make a return from PvZ2, serving a similar role to their appearance in PvZ2. They can be unlocked after completing a level, 10 for every lawn mower remaining. Gems return as well, as the 'paid' currency of the game, and can currently only be used to buy any remaining seeds for 'seedium' Plants introduced in Invasion! or to buy Fire Peashooter. 
====Shop====
*Corn Dog - An offensive, aquatic Plant that seeks out the strongest Zombie on screen and attacks it repeatedly before returning to where it was planted. Unlocked after spending 200,000 coins.
*Jack O' Lantern - An offensive Plant that sprays a stream of flames five tiles ahead that do less damage the further away they get. Unlocked after spending 200,000 coins.
*Fire Peashooter - An offensive Plant that shoots flaming Peas in a straight line. Unlocked upon spending 100 Gems.
*Cold Snapdragon - An offensive Plant that sprays a damaging, chilling mist in a 1x3 area in front of itself. Unlocked upon spending 100 Gems.
=====Costume Shop=====
*The Ancients Bundle - Unlocks Fire Peashooter and Cold Snapdragon. Also unlocks the Pea Phoenix and Viking Snapdragon costumes. Unlocked upon spending $3.99.
==== Gem Shop====
*50 Gems - $0.99
*100 Gems - $1.99
*250 Gems - $3.49
*1,000 Gems - $14.99
*10,000 Gems - $99.99
*10,000 Coins - 25 Gems
*100,000 Coins - 200 Gems
*1,000,000 Coins - 1,500 Gems
==Adventure Arcade==
The Adventure Arcade is a location unlocked after completing Level 2-8: Grave & Busters. It contains various minigames and other ways to play, some of which are unlocked for free while others are not.
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! colspan="2" |Plants
! rowspan="2" |Zombies
! rowspan="2" |Description
! rowspan="2" |Reward
! rowspan="2" |Unlock
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!Choice
!Planted
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|Vasebreaker
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|The player must break vases to find Plants and Plant Food and use those Plants to defeat Zombies hidden in other vases.
|Player's House Piñata
|Free
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|Vasebreaker II: Night Falls
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|The player must break vases to find Plants and Plant Food and use those Plants to defeat Zombies hidden in other vases.
|Night Piñata, 1,000 Coins
|Free after defeating Vasebreaker
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|Vasebreaker III: Forest of Nightmares
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|The player must break vases to find Plants and Plant Food and use those Plants to defeat Zombies hidden in other vases.
|Meteor Piñata, 1,000 Coins
|Free after defeating Vasebreaker II: Night Falls
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|ZomBotany
|Choice
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|The player must defeat Zombies with heads and functions identical to those of Plants.
|Random Piñata
|Free
|-
|It's Raining Seeds
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|Random Plant packets fall from the sky, similar to Special Delivery levels, and must be planted to fight off random Zombies.
|Random Piñata
|20,000 Coins
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|Wall-Nut Bowling
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|Wall-Nuts arrive on a conveyor belt and, when planted, roll like bowling balls to take down Zombies.
|Guardian Piñata
|20,000 Coins
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|Wall-Nut Bowling II
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|Wall-Nuts arrive on a conveyor belt and, when planted, roll like bowling balls to take down Zombies.
|Guardian Piñata, Explosive Piñata
|20,000 Coins after defeating Wall-Nut Bowling
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====Challenge Packs====
The Wall-Nut Bowling Challenge Pack is unlocked after spending 10,000 coins and defeating Wall-Nut Bowling II.
Wall-Nut Bowling Challenge Pack	Wall-Nut Bowling Challenge Pack	Wall-Nut Bowling Challenge Pack 	Wall-Nut Bowling Challenge Pack	Wall-Nut Bowling Challenge Pack 	Wall-Nut Bowling Challenge Pack
Level 	Plants 	Zombies 	Waves 	Other 	Rewards
Practice 	 	(1 hit)(2 hits)(3 hits) 	5 	 	2,000 Coins
Bumpers Off 	 	(1 hit)(2 hits)(3 hits)(2 hits) 	6 	 	3,000 Coins
7-10 Split 	 	(1 hit)(2 hits)(3 hits)(2 hits)(5 hits) 	5 	 	5,000 Coins
Fluorescent Lighting 	 	(1 hit)(2 hits)(3 hits)(2 hits)(2 hits) (6 hits) 	6 	Explode-O-Nuts hit all Zombies in a 3x3 area for equal to 3 hits.	6,000 Coins
Perfect Game 	 	(1 hit)(2 hits)(3 hits)(4 hits)(1 hit)(2 hits)(2 hits)	7 	Explode-O-Nuts hit all Zombies in a 3x3 area for equal to 3 hits.
Boosted Zombies take 2 extra hits to destroy.	8,000 Coins
King Pin 	 	(1 hit)(2 hits)(3 hits)(4 hits)(1 hit)(2 hits)(8 hits)	8 	Explode-O-Nuts hit all Zombies in a 3x3 area for equal to 2 hits.	10,000 Coins, Guardian Piñata
The Vasebreaker Challenge Pack is unlocked after spending 20,000 coins and defeating Vasebreaker III: Forest of Nightmares.
Vasebreaker Challenge Pack	Vasebreaker Challenge Pack	Vasebreaker Challenge Pack	Vasebreaker Challenge Pack	Vasebreaker Challenge Pack
Level 	Plants 	Zombies 	Other 	Rewards
Vases Galore 	 	 	Plant Vases (3x)
Zombie Vases (0x)
Other Vases (17x)	1,000 Coins
Zombies Big and Small 	 	 	Plant Vases (3x)
Zombie Vases (1x)
Other Vases (21x)	2,000 Coins
That's a Shiitake 	 	 	Plant Vases (3x)
Zombie Vases (3x)
Other Vases (19x)	3,000 Coins
Devase Yourself 	 	 	Plant Vases (5x)
Zombie Vases (1x)
Other Vases (24x)	5,000 Coins
Green vs Grey 	 	 	Plant Vases (3x)
Zombie Vases (0x)
Other Vases (27x)	6,000 Coins
Sleepy Peas 	 	 	Plant Vases (5x)
Zombie Vases (1x)
Other Vases (29x)	7,000 Coins, Meteor Piñata
====Invasion! ====
After paying 15,000 coins, Invasion! becomes unlocked. Invasion! is a series of seemingly endless Zombies that arrive in waves. The player has to hold off each wave as long as possible, and the game goes on until either the player resets or until a Zombie eats the player's brain. Sun, Lawn Mowers, and Plant Food do not change between rounds, but the lineup of Plants can be.
Invasion! offers, as reward for playing, new Plants that can only be unlocked by gathering seeds over time. Those Plants are:
*Gatling Pea - An offensive Plant that rapidly shoots Peas in a straight line.
*Twin Sunflower - A sun-producing Plant that generates Sun twice as fast as a Sunflower.
Invasion! also has another gamemode: Night Invasion!, which takes place at nighttime instead of during the day, costs an extra 10,000 coins to unlock, and adds another new Plant:
*Garlic - A defensive Plant that stuns Zombies and diverts them to another lane after being bitten.
====Arena====
Main article: Arena
The Arena was introduced in Update 1.3 to replace the former Event system, and has been completely reworked from its appearance in PvZ2. In the new Arena mode, both players are given a lawn that typically changes to fit the season (for example, Season 1's lawn prominently features a pool to match the theme of Summer Splashdown). Players can not only spend their sun on Plants, but to summon Zombies to the opponent's lawn. 
==Worlds==
Worlds
Name 	Levels	Plants	Split Timeline 	Split Timeline Levels	Split Timeline Plants	Overall Difficulty
Player's House	4 	 	Crazy Dave's House	2 	 	1
Blackout Night	15 	 	Starlight Suburbs 	6 	 	2
Meteor Meadow 	22 	 	Weirding Woods 	8 	 	3
Tricky Tundra 	16 	TBA 	Sunny Sands 	10 	TBA 	4
==Plants==
Main article: Plant Almanac
Plants are living organisms that belong to the Plantae kingdom. They obtain most of their energy from sunlight in a process called photosynthesis. However, not all plants absorb energy via photosynthesis. They are the protagonists of Plants vs. Zombies: Starstruck and the player's main defense against the zombies.
==Zombies==
Main article: Zombie Almanac
Zombies are reanimated, mindless, decaying corpses with a hunger for human brains. They are the main antagonists of Plants vs. Zombies: Starstruck, as the objective of the game is to prevent them from eating the player's brains. Zombies, like their defensive counterparts the plants, are varied in strength as well as speed, and command unique aspects which must be countered appropriately.
==Trivia==
*Plants vs. Zombies: Starstruck is the second game from Dt1000 with the initial S, the first being Plants vs. Zombies: Seeds of Shadow.
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