The Cell Stage is short but enjoyable enough. The Creature Stage is really basic but it's oddly charming. The Tribal and Civilization Stages are pretty much baby's first RTS. I've always enjoyed them personally, but neither is very interesting.

The Space Stage and Creature Creator are no doubt the focus of the game. Creating creatures is cool, and I think making them more complex as you progress in the Creature Stage and seeing how they've changed at the end is the best part. Space Stage is a bit mixed. I think it can be enjoyable and there are things to do, especially if you get the Galactic Adventures DLC, but I don't think it manages to hold my attention for as long as it should. I've played through the game many times, telling myself I would beat Space Stage each one, and I never did. I know that it doesn't really have an ending, but there is sort of a goal, and I could never bother to reach it.

All in all, enjoyable enough, I suppose.

we could go on and on about what Spore COULD have been until we're blue in the face but Spore, standing on its own and being judged as its own thing, is all in all a pretty good game. it also still, to this day, a very unique game in both style and mechanics. the game gives you very many different paths of replayability. wanna create some cool monsters and vehicles until the end of time? Spore's more than ready to deliver on that promise. taking those very same creations, be it monster or machine, and helping them evolve over the course of a million-year-long journey from cell to space-farer has never gotten old. at least not in my case, your experience will likely differ.

is it the deepest of games? of course not, after all it would have been pure miracle for a game to take this jack-of-all-trades approach in mechanics and have them all be equaled in depth or replayability. but hey, that's just how it goes.

above all else, Spore is a fun game that never stopped being fun for me.

This review is truly hard one for me. This is one of the first games I've played. I can still remember little me letting my imagination run wild as I played this game over and over again. There was a time were this was on of my favorite games of all time.

Though seeing art through nostalgia filled glasses isn't always the greatest idea. I have revisited this game and seen what it truly is, a disappointment. There is not much I can say, this is just a game that you will have a hard time finding enjoyment in unless you are playing it to make fun of it. I love this game, but it's bad.