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As the camera pans through the district, suddenly all those individual details combine to reveal its full rejuvenation, as your designs illuminate the walls along with the lights and shrubbery around them. Taking notes from Ōkami, Concrete Genie’s finest moments come at the end of each area, when the full fruits of your labour become clear. But it leaves behind the aura of a bigger idea, and might just inspire you to imagine what more could have been. Then a late game twist switches the playstyle in a way that’s thematically coherent but dismissive of structures built to that point.Ĭoncrete Genie thus succeeds as an intimate tale, and a visually arresting experience about the potential for creative expression to bring people together. Many systems are present – platforming, puzzles, stealth – but stall in their development.Ī few neat ideas, such as using an electric genie to complete a circuit, or combining multiple genie powers to remove an obstacle, set precedents for greater intricacy that are never met. Watching and interacting with them is often a pleasure in itself.īut outside the painting, Concrete Genie feels somewhat sparse. As for the genies, your ability to draw different body shapes and appendages before they sprout limbs and come alive gives each one individual identity, while the many ways they interact with your painted scenes – munching apples, lounging on logs – further bolsters their personalities. Oh, and since Ash climbs on rooftops fairly regularly, the game will offer some nice views of your drawings, too. Ashs notepad pages are displayed on the map and theres also a small gnome in our backpack who also tells us if there is something exciting nearby. And the more pages you find, the more imaginative your works become. Thus, collecting is a part of Concrete Genie, but that is likely the easy bit. The way your fantasy drawings pop with colour, superimposed on reality, never fails to delight. It works because it drives your creative whims, and pays off because it looks so impressive. Jump and climb to gather sketches, then unblock the way for your genies so they can unblock the way for you. But since you can only paint what’s in your sketchbook, and that’s been torn up and scattered by a gang of bullies, you first have to track down the relevant pages. To motivate them, you’ll need to cheer them up by painting their requests. Summon one with a few swishes of your brush, and they’ll run along the walls around you, removing obstructions with elemental powers or giving you ‘super paint’ to clear the grime that stops their progress. He discovers a mysterious magical paintbrush that is capable of creating.
To paint each area, you’ll need the genies’ help. Concrete Genie is a new colorful and artistic PlayStation exclusive that tells a heartwarming tale starring a boy named Ash. The more you paint the town red – and green, and yellow – the more the oily gunk that’s infected Denska retreats, until perhaps you can make the whole place shine again. With it, you daub fluorescent landscapes on the town’s vertical surfaces, with trees, butterflies, camp-fires, and those titular genies all twinkling into two-dimensional life. As Ash, a creatively inclined teenage boy who likes to hang out in old Denska, you find yourself armed with a magic paintbrush.
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