![]() There are numerous moments that take you away from the main story without disrupting it, such as characters pulling you aside to go off on a tangent on their life story or to make a simple drawing request. It is the sort of charming game where you find nothing but puns, eccentricities, and quirks galore to pull from and remark gleefully about. Set in a place called Picnic, you realize every character is named after food to align with a very obvious theme. For instance, early on, you are asked what your favorite food is and the word becomes the name of your dog character. As is, the childlike anthropomorphic animals that season the game enhances this appeal. It is a game that relishes in that cuteness, even when you think it can’t be any more laced with saccharine than it is. It is an understatement to say that Chicory is a damn cute game. There are also a few battles far and in between that you encounter - which mark the bookends of the different parts of the game - and they often just require you to draw or point your brush at the right time and right place. Another puzzle may need you to remember a certain pattern and emulate it in order to unlock a pathway. You are free to draw and color wherever you want, whenever you want! You can be preoccupied trying to figure out the perfect color to paint someone’s house, but the game’s emphasis is less on needing specific colors and being able to fill in the gaps of things with lines and shapes.Īn example of one puzzle may require you as a way to light a path through a cavern by drawing one. Chicory’s co-op mode plays with these two dynamics, not only offering an opportunity to share more company, but to also make the game’s mechanics more accessible.Īlthough it looks like one, Chicory is more than just a coloring book game - because the key is not about filling in the lines, after all - it is simply a game with coloring mechanics. The tip of the giant brush you harness is your cursor, spattering pigment at your disposal as you drag it along the map, all while a separate scheme of controls is dedicated to moving your character. Like a coloring book, Chicory is lovingly rendered in a cartoon style with thick, black line art that illustrates the colorless characters and the scenes they live in. With Chicory missing in action, it is now up to you to stop a looming presence of darkness and corruption threatening Picnic. Finding yourself attuned to it pretty naturally, you unexpectedly become the new Wielder. Labrador retriever - and stumble upon Chicory’s brush. You play a dog - bearing some semblance to a very typical and simple stylization of a As Picnic faces a crisis suddenly losing its color, the current Wielder, Chicory, finds herself in a self-destructive, defeated state of mind, and retreats away from the outside, becoming a recluse. The land of Picnic bears the tradition of honoring someone with the title of “Wielder”, a person with the artistic gusto and expertise to maintain the world’s color via the power of a giant, magical paintbrush. When you are no longer doing art for yourself, how can you continue to do art for others? Chicory: A Colorful Tale, explores this question and more when you must wield a magical paintbrush to bring back color in a colorless world. ![]() As much as people warn about the dangers that come when passion becomes conflated with work, there is no true one-size-fits-all solution to figuring out that balance. The promise of developing an art career is being able to “do what you love” for a living.
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