Very evocative. The short writings put me in a nice place.

Emojis are basically as abstract as any pictographic language at this point. Most emojis are not stand-ins for what they actually depict. A flower emoji signifies beauty or innocence or spring, but it seldom signifies an actual flower, outside of texts from Mom. This "emoji forest generator" isn't unprecedented in its attempt to craft a landscape from emoji, but it's the first thing I can think of that manages to create an actual sense of place with emojis. I think that's entirely because of the flavor text. The flavor text reinforces not only the identity of the pictures but also the emotional content of what they refer to. By linking the abstract image of a rose with the reality of its thorny stem and legendary beauty, you start to weave a sense of context. By describing the pictures as sensory objects, they come alive, and the abstract pictograms of emoji suddenly gains a very real sense of atmosphere, if not necessarily a concrete sense of place.

I really liked the drive to regenerate the terrain frequently, I was interested in trying to see all the different plants to read their descriptions. they're very cute, with a nice variety of contexts given.