This week’s Nintendo Direct noticed the reveal of Crops vs. Zombies: Replanted, an upcoming remake of the traditional zombie-blasting arcade technique sport, co-developed by PopCap Video games and The Misplaced Pixels. It was a pleasant shock for followers of the collection, which has since sprawled throughout a number of genres underneath writer EA, which acquired PvZ and Bejeweled studio PopCap over a decade in the past, however a considerably much less good shock for unique Crops vs. Zombies artist Wealthy Werner, who says he wasn’t knowledgeable of the remake’s existence or requested to work on it.
“Simply noticed the submit about PVZ reboot,” Werner stated in a tweet. “It is cool, however want somebody would a minimum of contact me. Kinda sux. I might be down to assist with it… no matter, I assume. Par for the course.”
Crops vs. Zombies background artist Enrique Corts replied to Werner’s submit with related sentiments. “Yeah, I used to be the background artist for the unique PvZ too and it felt tremendous bizarre seeing all my work like redone in HD and naturally I had nothing to do with it,” he wrote. “Would’ve been completely satisfied to do these reworks myself.”
Werner advised it will “have been cool for them to strive getting everybody collectively for extra content material.” Corts agreed “it will have been superior to return and do some new PvZ content material with you guys for this remake. It will’ve made complete sense and followers would in all probability take pleasure in that, however eh, I assume.”
One fan identified that, on the Replanted Steam web pageEA says the remake options “a brand new Artwork and Idea Library, that includes never-before-seen pre-production sketches and sport historical past.” Werner seems equally stunned by this, saying “I don’t know” the place they bought this artwork from, and “that’s wild.”
“Nobody appears to need me to be part of it sadly,” Werner stated in response to a different fan who inspired him to achieve out.
EA’s exclusion of the unique artists has been criticized, to say the least. The Binding of Isaac mastermind Edmund McMillen shared Werner’s tweet with a easy, telling, “Dude…”
I’ve reached out to EA for touch upon its choice right here.
Here is how EA described Replanted, which packs in additional ranges and modes in addition to native co-op, on Steam: “After years in Loopy Dave’s attic, the unique battle between Crops and Zombies is again — larger, brighter, and crazier than ever earlier than! Expertise the sport that began all of it, now remastered with upscaled HD graphics and filled with new secrets and techniques to uncover.”
Crops vs. Zombies: Replanted is coming to PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Change and Change 2 on October 23, 2025.
The whole lot introduced on the Nintendo Direct Accomplice Showcase July 2025.
