Sunny: Magical Sunflower

Sunny: Magical Sunflower (向日葵 魔法少女 lit. "Sunflower Magical Girl"; pinyin: Xiàngrìkuí mófǎ shàonǚ) is a spin-off of . Originally relased as , it was relased as a full game on January 7th, 2018.
This game is a horizontally scrolling shooter with some bullet hell elements. Here the player controls a female plant and the objetive is surviving to the enemies' atacks and destroying as many enemies as possible with her abilities.
==Plot==
==Gameplay==
Similar to the brain buster in PvZ2C, here the player controls a flying plant and the objetive is to defeat enemies while evoiding atacks to beat the levels. Every level haves a progress bar similar to the tower defense games.
To atack, plants need to use one of her three abilities. Abilities can be both offensive or deffensive, they spend different ammounts of sun from a sun bar that recharges every second with a max of 100 (200 in Orchid Mage) and have different recharge times that come from 0s to 60s. 
The Power-Ups are special powers purchased with Gems that can be used in the levels to make them easier. They are: 
*Power Sun: Fills player's Sun bar for 60 seconds.
*Power Zap: Stuns every enemy in the screen for 10 seconds
*Power Shield: Gives the character a shield that makes her immune to damage for 10 seconds
*Power Increase: Makes the character deal double damage for 10 seconds.
*Power Wind: Removes every projectile and enemy from the screen (doesn't work with bosses).
*Power Storm: TBA
==Game information==
===Currencies===
*Gold is the main currency of the game. Is used to upgrade the characters.
* Fragments are the rarer currency. They serve to buy cosmetics.
*Gems are the premium currency. They serve to buy power-ups, gold and Magical Pass levels.
=== Game modes===
====Story Mode====
Story is the main mode in SMS, here the player unlocks new characters and knows more about the story.
The levels are called Areas, and similar to Adventure Mode in PvZ1, levels can't be replayed; but cutscenes can be seen again in Talkweb's Bibili channel. Every area haves 30 levels with story and new elements, level 31 and all the following ones doesn't have cutscenes and they only increase difficulty. Since level 1842 the ammount of enemies is very big and this makes the game literally unplayable. However if the player spends money in Power-Ups the game ends in level 2012, trying to play level 2013 makes the game crash.
====Challenges====
Challenges are special levels without story or cutscenes but with special elements that increase difficulty like a limit time or a minimum score that needs to be beaten. There are 10 challenges every week.
=====Special Challenge=====
Speical Challenge is an special level that changes every week, the main objetive is to get the maximum score to beat players arround the world. Getting a determined minimum score gives the player special rewards when the week ends. 
=====Endless Challenge=====
Endless Challenge is an endless level and the objetive of the player is to survive as long as possible and get multiple points by destroying enemies. When this is played by first time, the player is rewarded with 100 coins by every 1000 points. After this the player gets 500 coins for every 1000 points that exced the previous record.
====Social====
=====Magical Race=====
In Magical Race two players play the same level to see who is the one with better scores. The match ends after 2 minutes when someone loses or when someone gets 10000 points. If the match ends naturally the player with more score wins, the number of hits recieved also decerase the ammount of points.
In this gamemode, Power-Ups are remplaced with "Battle Powers". Battle Powers can be used by expending Battle Poins, special points that are obtained by the same way ot points.
=====Clans =====
Similar to famous mobile games like Clash Royale, SMS haves a clan system. In a clan members can chat between each others and trade Zen Garden pots with ones of the same rarity. 
Clans can fight in Clan Wars, here Clans fight against other clans to be the Clan with more teritorry. This gamemode is similar to Contested Territory from the Bloons series. 
=== Profile Customization===
To make his profile more attractive, the player can cusomize it. There are multiple customization items:
*Profile Pictures: Obtained principally in challenges
* Banners: Obtained in the shop and in challenges
*Badges: Obtained in missions (for example destroying 10 enemies)
* Photographs: Obtained in story
* Zen Garden: See bellow
===Zen Garden===
Zen Garden returns from the previous games, here the player can collect the seeds from many PvZ2C plants and make them grow. This version of Zen Garden acts similar to its PvZ1 counterpart but improved, there are more cares that a plant needs.
All the plants of PvZ2C are included here excepting: 
*All the mushrooms
*Firebloom Queen and Frostbloom Queen
* Orchid Mage
*Gorgon Pitcher
*Cranesbill Fencer
* Parkour Mandrake
*All the primal plants
*All the abyssal plants
===Magical Pass===
SMS includes the Magical Pass, a battle pass system that nees to be filled with Abyssal Particles. The Abyssal Particles can be obtained by completing missions or winning in the other gamemodes. Every Season lasts for a month.
Magical Pass was included in version 3.0, in November 01st 2020.
==== List of Seasons ====
* Welcome Magical Plants! (November 2020 Season)
* Merry Feastivus! (December 2020 Season)
* Aventure Awaiting (January 2021 Season)
* Some Easter Eggs (February 2021 Season)
* This is the New World (March 2021 Season)
* Welcome to the Jungle (April 2021 Season)
* Emerald Economy (May 2021 Season)
* Pretty Scary Haunting (June 2021 Season)
* Steampunk Engineering(July 2021 Season)
* Hor-season (August 2021 Season)
* The Season that Changed the World (September 2021 Season)
* Bountiful Season (October 2021 Season)
* Combat Season (November 2021 Season)
* Frostburn Returns! (December 2021 Season)
* Exploarion Awaiting (January 2022 Season)
* World of Color (February 2022 Season)
* Upgrade Aquatic (March 2022 Season)
* Buzzy Bees (April 2022 Season)
* Infernaland (May 2022 Season)
* Cave Climbing (June 2022 Season)
* Cliff Falling (July 2022 Season)
* Wilder and Weirder (August 2022 Season)
* Trails & Tales (September 2022 Season)
* (October 2022 Season)
* (November 2022 Season)
* (December 2022 Season)
* (January 2023 Season)
* (February 2023 Season)
* (March 2023 Season)
* (April 2023 Season)
* (May 2023 Season)
* (June 2023 Season)
* (July 2023 Season)
* (August 2023 Season)
* (September 2023 Season)
* (October 2023 Season)
* (November 2023 Season)
* (December 2023 Season)
==Game content==
===Areas===
Icon	Name 	Unlocked
 	Neighborville 	At the start
 	Lost City 	In Chapter 4
 	Sky City 	In Chapter 5
 	Mount Ice and Fire	In Chapter 6
 	Zomboss Factory 	Beating Day 20 in every area
 	Hollow Earth 	In Chapter 7
 	The Abyss 	In Chapter 8
===Characters ===
==== Playable characters:====
*Sunny
*Flary
*Nutty
*Purple Stinger
* Protobaga
*Frostbloom Queen
*Ghost Pepper
*Orchid Mage
====Others====
*Sailor-shroom
=== Enemies===
====Regular Enemies====
*Jetpack Zombie
*Combat Plane
*Flying Gargantuar
*Imp-copter
*Imp-issile
*Parachute Bombarder
*Infernal Lettuce (Iceberg Lettuce)
*Infernal Snapdragon (Cold-snapdragon)
* Lava-shroom (Cryo-shroom)
*Zombot Drone
*Vengeful Cyborg
*Ghost-buster
*Corrupted Pterodactyl
*Corrupted Vimpire
*Bird of Abyss
*Corrupted Asparagus
*Corrupted Eggret Flower
*Corrupted Pelican Zombie
*Corrupted Octo Zombie
* Corrupted Red Stinger
*Corrupted Kunai Tupistra
* Corrupted Bumper Car Imp
*Corrupted Medusa Zombie
*Corrupted Cranefencer
====Bosses ====
* Mad Snowman
*Thistler
*Superior Sunny
*Pouākai
*Firebloom Queen
*Zombot Mark III
*Immorticia
*Abyssal Core
*Corrupted Thyme
==Trivia==
*The menu aestetic and color palettes were inspired by the franchise Bejeweled, specially Bejeweled 3.
*There are many references in this game
**To start the entire premise of the game is a parody of the mahō shōjo genre.
**The name of Sailor-shroom is probably a referene of the magical girl franchise Sailor Moon.
**The texture of Abyss portals are reference to Minecraft's Nether Portals.
**The outfit of the zombies who captured Ghost Pepper reference the Ghostbusters.
**The portal that Immorticia makes in Chapter 7 are a reference to Dr. Strange.
**The corrupted plants and zombies have inverted colors, this is a reference to Endermen's vision in Minecraft
**Abyssal Core's appearance is similar to Dark Matter from the Kirby series.
**The takeover of the Abyss in the last chapter is a reference to Infinite Zamasu from Dragon Ball Super.
*Acording to Talkweb, the real name of Sailor-shroom is Hitoko Sarum.
** (Out-of-universe) The name was extracted from Tiki Tales.
*A person who worked in this game revealed that the game was planned to have a deeper story similar to the magical girl series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, it was scrapped due to time constraints. 
**Another posibility is that this was scrapped because of the child focus that the PvZ franchise has, however no Talkweb employer said anything about it.
*The fact about how the game crashes at level 2013 is a reference to a phenomenon that happened in year 2012 and how many people tought that this year would be the end of the world.
**The In-universe explaination is that this happens because TalkWeb empleoyers are very bad at coding.
*Creator haves 0 creativity for seasons, so they use reused ideas:
**Seasons of 2021-2022 are based on the Minecraft updates.
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