Restoring the place which harbors your fondest childhood reminiscences is a cute and virtually noble objective. In Concrete Genie you get to take one thing drab and useless and convey it again to life with color, love, and heat. It is a quite simple and brief expertise that focuses primarily on mild puzzling, 3D platforming, and slightly stealth, however its attraction and common sense of playfulness actually make it a worthwhile journey.
In Concrete Genie you play as Ash, a boy who goals of bringing his former residence, a fishing port referred to as Denksa, again to life. The city has been corrupted by an oil spill and destructive feelings, and is now a desolate maze-like neighbourhood by the water. Ash's love of artwork and reminiscences of higher days draw him to the run-down space, regardless of his dad and mom' warnings. Sadly for Ash, his bullies additionally get pleasure from working amok within the ghost city; they tear up his artwork guide and push him right into a cable automotive certain for Denska lighthouse (identified for housing a ghost), beginning him on a brand new journey.
Small drawings of the genies Ash drew as a toddler are scattered across the metropolis and, when mixed with the facility of the lighthouse ghost, deliver his work to life. These pleasant genies bid him to make use of his inventive abilities to color the city utilizing a brand new magic brush, which restores the electrical lights within the space. He units to work, utilizing his vibrant artworks to push again the darkness infecting the city. The premise does not make a tonne of sense, however its message and execution are candy and stuffed with coronary heart, very similar to the remainder of the sport.
Ash is set to revive Denska to its former glory and every space of the city, together with the lighthouse, has hanging fairy lights over some components of buildings. Portray these areas will clear the darkish vines that block your path to the subsequent part. Mechanically, portray is extra like inserting giant dynamic stickers moderately than utilizing your personal brush strokes. You select whether or not you wish to paint one thing like a rainbow or a flower, use both movement controls or the precise stick to decide on its location, then drag throughout the display to find out the overall dimension and form of the thing.
Concrete Genie fills in the remainder, including effective particulars that may range relying on the sticker. Flowers might create further grass, and timber can develop further branches, nevertheless it all works to make no matter you are creating way more spectacular. The paintings is made of sunshine and genuinely fairly beautiful--if slightly overbearingly shiny at occasions. Very like projected mild artwork or shiny neon indicators, they work properly sparsely however can get overly busy. You do should go fairly overboard to create one thing that is truly ugly, which makes the act of portray the city actually satisfying--you get to look at a boring uninteresting setting change into one thing fairly fairly with very minimal effort.
To mild up the hanging lights, any portray will do. Which means that generally, for simplicity's sake, I used the identical artwork again and again, overlaying the partitions with butterflies or stars out of laziness. Sometimes, it's possible you'll want to color one thing particular, however even then it may get slightly repetitive. The entire paintable objects come out of your sketchbook the aforementioned bullies tore aside, and these pages are scattered throughout Denska.
Generally you may not have the web page you want but, however getting down to discover them provides you a real motive to discover the setting and luckily, it is actually enjoyable to take action. Ash is only a child and does not have superpowers, so he cannot leap significantly excessive or survive giant falls, however he does have a spirited spring in his step. Clambering up the perimeters of buildings is fast and environment friendly whereas nonetheless feeling grounded and under no circumstances floaty. Even in case you do fall to your demise, you are instantly returned to the place you fell from, and daredevil actions like sliding down energy strains make getting round gratifying with out worry of punishment. There is a very nice fluidity to his actions, which emboldens you to discover each nook and cranny to search out your strewn pages.
Alongside the best way, you may additionally discover spots to create new genies, which can in flip enable you remedy puzzles and entry new areas. These genies have set colors which permit them to unravel totally different elemental puzzles--red genies can burn down a tarp, for instance, whereas blue ones can blow on particular objects, and yellow ones generate electrical energy to energy varied doorways and switches. The draw back to the puzzles is looking one genie to unravel an issue calls all who can be found to come back, so typically there's not a lot lively work in your half to unravel them--As an alternative, the genies come alongside and, apart from just a few exceptions, they will simply remedy it on their very own. As genies are nonetheless technically work that exist on the partitions they have been painted on, they'll solely journey on linked partitions and are locked in their very own areas. This implies it's possible you'll have to have discovered the portray spot for the kind of genie you want first, however this nonetheless is not very troublesome.
You even have a good quantity of management over how your genies will look, relying on what number of genie design pages you’ve collected. The alternatives you make can influence their personalities, which might make interacting with them extremely endearing--it's additionally very straightforward to make some scorching mess genies, however they do not appear to thoughts their look. The interactions between Ash and the genies are very sweet--you can hang around with them, play video games collectively, and paint issues for them. Protecting your genies glad additionally makes them extra seemingly that can assist you remedy puzzles and supplies you with Tremendous Paint, which is required to color over some surfaces, so the entire interplay with the genies feeds again into the positivity of the sport.
Concrete Genie takes a shocking flip within the remaining act, when fight all of the sudden makes an look. As part of the narrative, it is smart and is an gratifying twist, however as a result of it is such a short-lived mechanic it feels under-developed. Like the weather of the genies, you're granted three totally different elemental assaults that should be used to take down totally different shields. The half-hour devoted to fight, largely involving boss fights, does not give a lot alternative so that you can experiment with it. I am nonetheless undecided if all of the assaults did injury or whether or not some simply brought about standing results as a result of there wasn't sufficient time or enemies to organically work it out.
Once you're granted fight, you additionally acquire new motion talents, which embrace paint skating. This implies you not should run a lot and might as an alternative basically skate on magical painted sneakers. It makes getting round much more fluid than it was earlier than, and in contrast to your skill to shoot components, you get to maintain this one even after the primary story is accomplished. As a result of it is launched pretty late into the sport, it makes leaping again in after the story to wash up collectibles actually gratifying. The sport itself solely takes about six hours to finish on an preliminary playthrough, and as soon as it is "over" you actually do wish to play extra. However even with the 10 or so hours I spent discovering all of the secrets and techniques and collectibles, it nonetheless looks like some ideas may nonetheless have been explored to a better diploma.
Most of what Concrete Genie has to supply is enjoyable and exquisite in a form of childlike means. The sport shouldn't be significantly troublesome, and overcoming a puzzle or fight situation is not all the time satisfying. But it surely's finally nonetheless an endearing expertise all through. There's loads of enjoyment to be discovered simply from the act of exploring, and little hidden secrets and techniques alongside the best way assist make it worthwhile; I simply want Concrete Genie had extra journey ready for me.
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