The dialogue and humour throughout the story comes across just as heartfelt and comedic as you would hope for a game which follows its wacky premise. Similarly to Stray’s dedicated meow button, The Artful Escape has a button to break out and play Francis’ guitar as you trek through the game’s vibrant environments, and even allows you to jump further or ground-pound surfaces when needed to assist with traversing areas. The game delves into personal subjects such as identity and how we are perceived by those around us, and is written in such a way that you can focus on these elements if you wish to or choose to regard them only for the impact they hold on the story, and not dwell on them outside of the game. From there the story only gets more bonkers, but remains just as brilliant. On the eve of Francis performing on-stage live for the first time, other worldly forces become aware of his musical talent and whisk him away to worlds beyond the stars to perform for them instead. You play as Francis Vendetti, an aspiring folk musician who is the nephew of local legend, Johnson Vendetti, a folk music mastermind. Developed by AnnaPurna Interactive and released in 2021, the same team who made Stray, another game I reviewed and thought a lot of during this summer.īeginning the game out among the gold-leaved trees of mountainous Colorado before moving on to locations with growing degrees of fantastical, every second spent playing The Artful Escape is a veritable feast for the eyes. Traverse landscapes made of sound - composed by your movement - as if the world itself were an instrument.The Artful Escape has one of the best sounding and beautifully presented original story ideas of recent memory. * Shred, soar and dance across the multiverse.
* Converse, consult and chill with all manner of beings: disenchanted publicans, nostalgic villagers, lumbering alien wildlife, and reality-defying behemoths. * Craft your own stage persona from the sci-fi beginnings of your backstory to the trim on your moonboots. * A story about great expectations, towering legacies, aliens, folk music, guitar solos, making stuff up, and living your dreams like memories. Starring voice performances by Michael Johnston, Caroline Kinley, Lena Headey, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Strong, and Carl Weathers. In an attempt to escape the musical legacy of his uncle, a teenage guitar prodigy embarks on a psychedelic journey to inspire his new stage persona, searching for who he isn’t in an adventure spanning stolen opera houses, melodic alien landscapes, and the impossible depths of the Cosmic Extraordinary. On the eve of his first performance, Francis Vendetti struggles with the legacy of a dead folk legend and the cosmic wanderings of his own imagination.
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