Īfterwards, I did eventually listen to a townsperson's advice to go deeper into the woods to find the previous wielder, Blackberry, so I could figure out what was going on. I spent some time doing small quests for the townspeople, like repainting a house or finding kids, and learned some controls as a result.Īmazingly, I also forgot to screenshot my interactions with townspeople, so here's one from YouTuber hugo. Though I knew I had to eventually get back to the main story with Chicory being missing and spooky black stuff trying to fill the screen and all, I first wandered around the suddenly colorless small town and talked to residents. What you choose to do after you've picked up the brush is just as open-ended as your painting choices. Take, for example, this autumn-themed forest I painted. I really admired this design choice, which made each area a collaboration between the developers and the players. The limited color selection led to nicely tied together aesthetics in the creators' vision of how the area should look, yet it still felt like my own unique masterpiece. However, different areas were sometimes limited to certain colors, which is actually a good thing because too much choice can ultimately lead to the player's demise. All the basic painting functions, like strokes, bucket fill, brush size changing, erasing, and color changing, were present. Even my own doggy body and clothes could be painted. Outside of quests, what I painted, what color I painted, and where I painted was 100% up to me. When using the paintbrush, I discovered Chicory is even more like a coloring book than I expected. Though we don't find her, we do eventually pick up her left behind paintbrush for the first time, somehow becoming the next "wielder", the only one who can paint this quirky world.Ī colorless calamity or did I just clean too hard? With that, we're off to search for our mentor Chicory. The narrative then quickly begins with a bang, literally, and all the vibrant colors disappear. I forgot to screenshot how colorful the room was before all the colors disappeared so here's an image from YouTuber hugo. Upon entering the game, we're immediately introduced to the core game mechanic - painting - by cleaning a room. My character amusingly ended up being named Ramen.
This naming pattern also seemed to be the case for the other wielders, Chicory and Blackberry, and all of the NPCs around town, such as Lemon and Pea. On the first screen, you type in your favorite food, and I soon realized that it would become the character's name. With a developer like Greg Lobanov, the creator of Wandersong, and amazing composers and artists who worked on games like Celeste, I knew it couldn't go wrong in art, narrative, or gameplay mechanics.įast forward to playing it on the very first day it was available in the festival, and my thoughts were proven correct and my anticipation was not in vain. Just from the screenshots alone I was enchanted by the idea of what was basically a playable coloring book starring a dog with a giant paintbrush and knew there definitely had to be a lot of depth in the game I couldn't see from screenshots and the trailer alone.
Upon learning about all the demos that would be available during Steam Summer Game Festival, I obviously jumped on the opportunity to play Chicory. Chicory: A Colorful Tale, a unique and beautifully illustrated game, has been on my wishlist for a long time, and I've been waiting for a chance to play its demo.
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