#PAINT THE TOWN RED VR FREE#

Like a LAIKAĬoncrete Genie’s art style extends beyond the walls of the town, though. Don’t expect the apples you’ve painted to stick around long.

Trying to interact with a genie is difficult to do when there are five of them vying for your attention and playing around with the environment you’ve created.

Instead, I had a hodgepodge of creatures trailing me all over town, and when I’d call for one to help me out, they’d all come running. There is a fascinating curveball that the game throws at you which could have felt more meaningful had I spent more time detailing one genie than creating a smattering of creatures all over town. Occasionally the walls can get a little too crowded with genies, cluttering everything up and making each new one less and less meaningful. It was amazing traveling through the town and seeing the things that I had made glittering, dancing, and waving back at me. A wide variety of options allows you to customize them in your own way, from size and shape to what kind and how many ears, tails or other twisty decorations they have coming off of them. This same feature is used for the genies.

#PAINT THE TOWN RED VR FREE#

You’re free to make nearly every wall in the town your own. Make it rain or stick a blazing fire next to a cave of icicles. You can select what element you want to slap onto a wall (as long as you’ve collected that sketchbook page) and the whole thing will adapt as you continue to paint. They’ll play with you, with objects next to their walls, and even with the specific things you paint for them, lending a playful air and strengthening the bond and connection with your creations.ĭon’t worry if you don’t have a creative bone in your body though. The genies will also follow you around, sticking to their two-dimensional surfaces in creative ways. And the art-whether genie or something else-stays on the walls, so as you wind your way back and forth through these narrow streets (and perhaps a few other locations), everything you’ve painted remains there in beautiful vivid motion. You might be surprised.Īsh gains the ability to create creatures called genies who can help him overcome certain obstacles and continue to light the way through Denska. I encourage you to give motion controls a fair shot before committing to switching. If you want to opt for more standard controls, using the control sticks to move the cursor, there is an alternate control scheme, but the game loses some of its fluidity if you opt to go in that direction. That may sound cumbersome to some, but I quickly found it to be a very intuitive system that was simple to use. Painting is done using the DualShock 4’s motion controls by default. Ash is pretty limber and can easily avoid confrontation as long as you don’t walk straight into it. All the while, Ash must avoid the roving band of bullies that want to use him as a physical and emotional punching bag. You’ll spend the next few hours collecting pages of Ash’s sketchbook and painting living images across the walls of Denska, using his art to drive back the creeping darkness that is a literal representation of negativity. It turns out the lighthouse is haunted, kind of, but it’s here that Ash meets a friend he had only seen on the page a creature he had drawn and come to call Luna who gives him a magic brush and the power to bring his creations to life. Finally they shove him in a tram car to the lighthouse, leaving Ash to fend for himself at the spooky and supposedly haunted beacon of the town. Ash’s solitude is broken when the bullies find him, assaulting him both verbally and physically, and then ripping his notebook pages out and scattering them to the winds. A group of local bullies uses the forsaken town as a playground, free from the watchful eye of parents and authorities. He yearns for the days when the docks and streets were filled with life, and he returns to those empty alleys to spend time alone with his sketchbook. Concrete Genie is all of those things and more packed into a game that initially feels small, yet bursts at the seams with a mountain of heart and themes, both obvious and subtle.Īsh is a bullied boy forced to leave his childhood home of Denska when an oil spill destroys the local economy. Imagine being able to quite literally push back darkness and negativity with light, positivity, and friendship. Imagine drawing your brush across a surface, and not just bringing the image into existence, but actually bringing it to life. Imagine if your best friends lived on the pages of a sketchbook or the walls of an abandoned coastal town.

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