This is likely just me being impatient though - the beauty of a game like this is that there's really no rush to get everything done, and you'll have much more fun if you take your time with it. Occasionally I found that they'd understand my request, but just took their time to get to it, while I frustratedly stood there waving my paint brush around like a nutter. Sometimes when you call the genies over to help you, they do need telling a few times before they'll step in.
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It's quite heart-warming watching them lovingly follow you around, and makes an otherwise lonely map full of life and character.
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Genies won't always help you for free however, each has a different personality depending on how you draw them, and occasionally they'll ask you to draw something - like an apple to eat, or campfire to warm up around - before they're happy to help you out. Red genies, for example, have fire powers, and can burn things like tarps to create platforms for you to jump on. Throughout you'll have chances to draw genies, colourful creatures that live in your artwork, and can help you bypass obstacles to progress. It's rare to find a game where the player helps create the atmosphere of a setting, and it's a wonderful feeling to look back at what you've done to revitalise the town. When you finish painting a zone, Concrete Genie rewards you with an overview of all the areas you've lit up.
The score is delightful too, each design you paint triggering a unique sound or piece of music that plays as you paint it. If you don't fancy waving your controller around in the air pretending you have a magic paintbrush, you can opt to just use the analog sticks to paint too (though it's never quite as satisfying playing that way). At first they feel finicky, but once you get the hang of it you'll find yourself speed painting beautiful landscapes in no time. It's nice to find a game that bothers using the motion controls in the DualShock 4 - it's even nicer to find a game that uses those motion controls pretty well. It's very much designed so regardless of your artistic skill, you can make some beautiful paintings. To perform the painting you'll need to select a design from your sketchbook, then drag your controller in the direction of how you'd like it to appear. Each new area you go to will provide you with new themed sketches, from forests and flowers, to ponds and thunderstorms, each designed to reflect Ash's emotions at different points in the game. Your main aim is to collect the ripped pages of your sketchbook and use your designs to brighten the town's gloomy walls. It's here your adventure begins, and the dilapidated town starts to brighten up with your discovery of a genie and a magic paintbrush.Ĭoncrete Genie is predominantly about painting. It's not long before you're interrupted by a group of bullies who rip apart your sketchbook and shove you onto a tram, trapping you in a haunted lighthouse. It sees you step into the shoes of Ash, a young boy exploring and painting in his now abandoned home town of Denska. Concrete Genie is everything I hoped it would be. The setting, the stunning art style, the artistic game play - this an ambitious game for Pixel Opus, a studio of university graduates whose only other title is Entwined, but that ambition has served them well.
Ever since its announcement at 2017's Paris Games Week, PlayStation exclusive Concrete Genie has been nothing short of intriguing.
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