![]() ![]() Eventually, you'll unlock new brush styles and textures, too, giving you even more creative avenues to really make Picnic your own. While you can hand-paint everything in sight, smaller elements on the screen will automatically get filled in with a tap of your left mouse button, allowing you to quickly breathe new life into these places and get them looking smart again. It also drives how you move and interact with it.Ĭhicory (the game, not the character) takes real delight in the act of painting. Painting doesn't just power the game visually. ![]() ![]() Game pad controls are also supported, but Pasta and her brush definitely feel most at home on mouse and keyboard. With the brush mapped to your mouse, it's such a joy swishing and sploshing it across the screen. She's over the moon, and the first half of this 12-odd hour game reflects Pasta's newfound lease of life. She's been handed her dream job on a plate, by the person she admires most in the whole of Picnic Province. Indeed, dog protagonist Pasta (or whatever your favourite foodstuff happens to be) can't believe her luck. There are a lot of heart-to-hearts over the course of Chicory. Someone else can top up the world's colour supply for a change - and the first person that comes knocking happens to be her cleaner. She wants to be rid of both the brush and her role as the world's magic paintbrush Wielder. When all the colour in the world suddenly disappears one day, Chicory (the character, not the game) decides she's had enough. Outside of a few occasional boss battles (which themselves are completely skippable and / or non-failable thanks to your infinite, and not to mention instant, retries), Chicory's world has no tangible threat. The big difference is Chicory's complete lack of combat. Later, your traversal skills come straight out of Splatoon's playbook, letting you sink down into your paint to not only move through the world faster, but also up walls and through tiny gaps. Its top-down, screen-by-screen world design is classic handheld Zelda, while the ability to paint directly onto your surroundings conjures images of Okami. ![]() At the risk of sounding like a big clanging cliche, it's very artfully done.Ĭhicory wears its inspirations more clearly than Wandersong. It's very much a story first, game second kind of tale, but as with Wandersong before it, its winsome cast, sensitive story-telling and infectious soundtrack go a long way in papering over its somewhat limited mechanical toolset. It's a feeling that anyone with a creative outlet can relate to, whether it's drawing, singing, knitting, playing an instrument, heck, even writing, but Chicory goes one step further.ĭespite its big, chunky picture book veneer, this top-down adventure game strikes hard at what it actually means to be creative, celebrating its joyous and fulfilling highs while also tackling its (sometimes literally) monstrous lows, including imposter syndrome, burn-out, depression and more. They balance out the bad, and revive what was lost. While not the most heroic of video game pursuits - indeed, Wandersong's bard and Chicory's janitor-turned-amateur brush wielder are repeatedly shown to be considerably less capable than their games' personal and professional heroes - both end up playing critical roles in restoring their respective worlds to their former glory. In Chicory: A Colorful Tale, it's painting.
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