![]() However, two-thirds in, things take a drastic and frankly brilliant turn. Mix It Upįor a large portion of the game, you’ll be slowly exploring Denska, finding pages, creating genies and painting walls. I fell in love with each of them right away and PixelOpus has done an amazing job of making them lovable and empathetic. Best of all is when you bring them to life and watch them happily clamber around the world. ![]() Creating the genies is a real joy, especially when you start giving them long ears and tails. Different coloured genies have different powers which are used to complete puzzles.Įssentially, Ash needs to create paintings to light up the globes while the genies help him get through Denska with their abilities.Īs Ash explores the town he’ll find pages from his sketchbook that unlock new features for the Genies as well as new objects and items to paint. Through the power of his brush, Ash is able to create Genies at certain points in the world. The titular Genies are also an utter delight. The way you can paint a blank wall with stars or the northern lights, and it shines brightly has to be seen. The lighting in Concrete Genie is something to behold. They move and sway, shine and shimmer and look absolutely spectacular. If you’ve seen any of the trailers for Concrete Genie, you’ll know that Ash’s paintings are alive. He merely needs to paint underneath rows of lightbulbs, to light them up and bring the town back to life. With his paintbrush in hand, Ash sets out to cleanse Denska of the darkness that’s infiltrated the town and forced everyone to leave. Luna gifts Ash with his magic paintbrush and the game begins in earnest. Here, Ash meets Luna, one of his drawings come to life. Desperate to find the missing pages, Ash travels to the so-called, haunted lighthouse to look for them. You can find graffiti all over town that reads “Art is Lame” and “Art Sucks” so poor Ash is alone in his passion.Īt the very beginning, his sketchbook is torn into pieces by the bullies. The others, seemingly hellbent on getting up to no good, harass Ash simply because he chooses to spend his time drawing and painting in his sketchbook. Concrete Genie ReviewĪs mentioned, set in Denska, Concrete Genie stars Ash, a loner who’s bullied by five other children. From the art-design to the animation and even the gameplay, Concrete Genie could be a game that falls apart at the seams.īut it never does and it’s so much having risked it all. Concrete Genie is a game that takes risks and takes a lot of them. The visuals of this game speak to the way it approaches its overall design. The two-dimensional visuals, on the other hand, are so brilliantly animated, so silky smooth that the marrying of the two styles really shouldn’t work. Everything in the game moves with such fluidity, however, the children’s faces are stilted and look to be deliberately missing frames. ![]() Set in the town of Denska, long since abandoned by any residents, the gameworld and six human children who appear are rendered in 3D but animated in an, almost, stop-motion style. Concrete Genie is one of the most visually unique and stunning games I’ve played in a long time. ![]()
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