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Plants vs. Zombies: Original Edition

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Plants vs. Zombies: Original Edition
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Credits
Developers
Talkweb, Melting Games
Attributes
Genres
Tower defense
Platforms
WeChat
Douyin
Kuaishou
3839 (好游快爆)
QQ
7723
Release date
27th April 2024 (WeChat)
Closure date
23rd December 2024 (WeChat)
Latest version
V1.0.82

Plants vs. Zombies: Original Edition (植物大战僵尸原版; pinyin: Zhíwù Dàzhàn Jiāngshī Yuánbǎn) was a Chinese-exclusive version of Plants vs. Zombies based on Plants vs. Zombies FREE, repurposed from Plants vs. Zombies 2: Evolve. It was developed to be a mini program on platforms such as WeChat due to the lack of an official downloadable version of Plants vs. Zombies in mainland China, initially developed by Talkweb, later on development passed to Tiandou on WeChat after the rectification of the game, on 23rd December 2024. Due to this rectification, the game had received a complete visual overhaul, done as a result of a request from an unknown party, no longer making it a Plants vs. Zombies game.

Gameplay

Adventure Mode

Main article: Adventure Mode

The Adventure Mode differed from the old versions in that it featured a level selector, allowing players to select any previously unlocked levels and replay those levels. Noticeable design features of the level selector include:

  • The level selector consisted of five tabs representing the areas: Day, Night, Pool, Fog, and Roof.
  • Each level consisted of a thumbnail representing the level, and an icon representing the plants or items obtained from that level.
    • The first, third, sixth, and eighth levels would show the new zombie encountered on the thumbnail. (The only exception was Level 1-1 which shows a Flag Zombie, which was first encountered in Level 1-2)
    • The second, fourth, seventh, and ninth levels would show the regular Zombie on the thumbnail.
    • Plants obtained after each level were shown under the level thumbnails.
    • Items and Notes were represented by a smiley Sunflower icon.
    • Clicking on a locked level or trying to start a new level with 2 saved progresses would emit a sound identical to the sound when Jack-in-the-Box Zombie opens its box.
  • Players at one area could preview the levels in the next area at furthest. For example, if a player was currently on a Day level, then they could preview the Night area levels, but not further areas.
  • The Suburban Almanac could've been accessed from the level selector.

Other game modes unlocked during the game:

More Ways to Play

The More Ways to Play UI provided access to Mini-games, Puzzle Mode and Survival Mode.

Mini-games

Main article: Mini-games

Puzzle Mode

Main article: Puzzle Mode

Puzzle Mode was first unlocked during Level 1-4. It consisted of five sub-modes: Vasebreaker, I, Zombie and Last Stand.

More levels were unlocked as the player advanced in Adventure Mode.

Each Endless level had its own online leaderboards ranking.

Survival Mode

Main article: Survival Mode

Survival Mode was unlocked once the player finishes Adventure Mode for the first time.

The levels were unlocked sequentially, the same as in the PC version. However, there was only one level (Survival: Day) unlocked by default, as opposed to three levels on PC.

The Survival Mode included Survival: Day, Survival: Night, Survival: Pool, Survival: Fog, Survival: Roof, Survival: Day (Endless), Survival: Night (Endless), Survival: Pool (Endless), Survival: Fog (Endless) and Survival: Roof (Endless). The hard levels were not included.

Each Endless level had its own online leaderboards ranking.

Zen Garden

Main article: Zen Garden (PvZ)

The Zen Garden allowed you to take care of plants in a stress-free environment and make money. It was a subset of the Zen Garden in the PC version (with Tree of Wisdom absent). Some common features unique to this and the iOS and Android versions were:

Game icons

  • Icon from PvZ2C website
    Icon from PvZ2C website
  • Icon from WeChat and Bilibili
    Icon from WeChat and Bilibili
  • Icon from Douyin
    Icon from Douyin

Plants

Returning plants

Zombies

Returning zombies

Bugs and differences

Bugs

  • Torchwood could not light up fog.
  • Newspaper, screen door and ladder could block projectiles from behind.
  • The player could manipulate the game to combine two different levels.
  • Dr. Zomboss could sometimes spawn two iceballs on top of each other in a single blow.
  • Incorrect music/SFX implementation, such as in 4-10 where it played Ultimate Battle and the rain SFX would not play if you paused the level and resumed it.

Differences

  • Zombies no longer dropped arms and heads due to censorship.
  • One account could only have one save, but cloud save is accessible.
  • Week Login, and later Month Login gave daily rewards.
  • Players could access the WeChat game community from the main menu for extra rewards and game announcements.
  • Achievement menu removed a lot of references to PopCap's other games, leaving only the pipe and Chinese zombies.
  • When starting a new save, the player could choose to skip to level 1-3.
  • Some plants and zombies' Chinese translations were changed.
  • Most levels had star requirements similar to Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition.
    • Flying Imp was absent. The requirements were: Beat the level, do not lose lawnmowers, and do not lose more than 3 plants.
  • A level could be skipped, but the player would only get 1 star in return.
  • Gatling Pea could only be obtained by sharing the game link or watching advertisements twice.
  • Twin Sunflower could only be obtained in Month Login or by sharing game link to five account friends.
  • Winter Melon could only be obtained in Week Login, after sharing game link or watching an advertisement.
  • In a level, the player had access to three types of power-ups (some levels banned them), one gave 500 sun, one enabled auto-collection coins and sun, one planted Cherry Bomb on every tile, one placed a Jalapeno in every column, although this was exclusive to Creativity Mode, as the Cherry Bomb power-up was absent and one removed the cooldown of all seed packets, although this was once again exclusive to Creativity Mode, as the auto-collection power-up was also absent. The player could also share game link or watch an advertisement to get a free upgrade plant.
    • In the seed-choosing menu, the player could purchase more items.
  • A level could be sped up to twice, thrice or quadruple the normal speed.
  • Creativity Mode could be accessed from the main menu.
  • There was no Tree of Wisdom, and thus no tree food.

Version history

Main article: Plants vs. Zombies: Original Edition/Update history

Gallery

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Game Modes

Welfare

Achievements

Concepts

Main article: Plants vs. Zombies: Original Edition/Concepts

Trivia

  • Physical Strength, a life system, was added on August 17th, 2024, but it was quickly removed just 3 days later on August 20th, 2024.
  • After the addition of Adventure Mode 2, there would be two different Zombologist achievements, one being impossible to clear.
    • This was fixed in an update later which added Physical Strength life system.
  • Gramophone Datura, Birthdayz Zombie, Birthdayz Pharaoh and Birthdayz Jester all made a cameo appearance in this game as a tribute to the 11th Anniversary of the Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2.
  • The game was scheduled to shut down on October 11th, 2024 according to the global announcement[1], however it ended up not shutting down, for reasons unknown.
    • The game later on went into a rectification period on November 20th, 2024 due to the request of an unknown copyright party, which was partially officially completed on December 23th, 2024.
      • It was partially officially completed firstly on December 17th, 2024, however the update of this rectified version was reverted very shortly after some hours, for reasons unknown, but most likely due to accidentally releasing the update.
      • On that same day, the game had temporarily went under the name of Tower of Overwatch (守望之塔; pinyin: Shǒuwàng Zhī Tǎ), a game developed by Talkweb, as well changing the icon of the mini-program to a character from that game, before changing the name to Plants Eliminate Zombies (植物消除僵尸) and the mini-program's icon to represent the current state of the game on December 23th, 2024. The rectified version would also appear on 4399.com as Super Plants Zombies War (超级植物僵尸大战). [2]

References

V · T · E
Plants vs. Zombies (series)
Tower Defense Plants vs. Zombies · Plants vs. Zombies 2 · Plants vs. Zombies 3: Evolved · Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted
Discontinued Adventures
Shooter games Garden Warfare · Garden Warfare 2 · Battle for Neighborville
Other games Pinball · Risk · Heroes · Stickers · Playing Cards
Discontinued Use Your Brainz EDU
Chinese spin-offs Plants vs. Zombies 2 (China) · Plants vs. Zombies 3 (China) · AR Trading Cards
Discontinued Endless Edition · Great Wall Edition · Social Edition · Online · All Stars · Pinyin Adventure · Magic Book · Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Tencent Edition) · Mr. Zombie's Called Jam Hsiao · Mini Programs (Original Edition)
Miscellaneous Comics App · Watch Face
Canceled games The Board Game · Kingdom Edition · Talking Zombatar · Project Hot Tub · Prototype · Brainiversity · Match
Officially recognized mods Hybrid Version · Plant Girls vs. Zombies
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