It's fair to say the young team has done just that with Concrete Genie, a far more ambitious title that aligns itself more with the regular output of Worldwide Studios.
Its debut game, Entwined, didn't set the world alight, and so its follow-up needed to up the ante.
Of all Sony's in-house developers, Pixelopus perhaps has the most to prove.
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Republished on Wednesday 27th January, 2021: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of February 2021's PS Plus lineup. For more information, see our ethics policy. These do not influence editorial content, though Vox Media may earn commissions for products purchased via affiliate links. They might not look like the genies you’re expecting, but that’s part of what makes them so memorable.Ĭoncrete Genie is available now on the PS4. But ultimately, it has just enough charm and warmth to make it worth the brief journey. The storytelling can be a bit too on the nose - like graffiti calling Ash “the paint nerd” - and the controls can be strangely complex at times, particularly in the last chapter when the game gets more action-heavy. It lends them an extra layer of handmade charm.Ĭoncrete Genie is messy, much like the adolescent story it tells. The best part is that when you meet a new genie, you actually get to design them yourself, using Ash’s painting skills to craft a monster. Even if you just toss some luminescent pine trees and butterflies up on a wall, it’s going to look good. It works well enough, particularly because you don’t have to be accurate at all. Concrete Genie is probably the only game I’ve played this year that uses the DualShock controller’s gyro controls: in order to paint, you move the entire controller around, guiding Ash’s brush. And all of these elements are punctuated by the painting, which is really the highlight of the experience. It’s all fairly simple, but you jump around between playstyles so much that the simplicity never really feels grating. There’s just enough charm and warmth to make it worth the brief journey Ash also gets a giant paintbrush he can use to paint iridescent graffiti. While searching, he discovers a magical being - one of the titular genies - called Luna, who just so happens to be a living version of one of his sketches. When his tormenters steal his sketchbook and scatter his work, Ash sets off to find the pages littered throughout a rundown part of town called Denska. You play as a young boy named Ash, a budding artist who is also subjected to a constant stream of bullying. They aren’t just different they’re also representative of the game as a whole: Concrete Genie is simple and rough around the edges, but with enough heart to fill the few short hours it lasts.Ĭoncrete Genie is a game about painting. Instead, they’re decidedly more down to earth, with the look of a hand-scrawled monster ripped out of a child’s notebook. The creatures aren’t all-powerful beings that pop out of lamps, and they don’t grant any wishes. You probably haven’t seen a genie like the ones in Concrete Genie, a heartwarming adventure game that just launched on the PS4.
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