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Concrete Genie |OT| Happy Little Accidents
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Appreciate it Drift!
PSVR compatible.
It's about 6 hours IIRC and the VR modes are completely separate from the main game.
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An artsy game about a boy who gets bullied and we bring really beautiful art to life (shortly explained)
You play as Ash, a boy who just wants to draw, but some bullies torment him and rip his scrap book apart. The town he lives in is overrun with bullies so Ash sneaks around the town, finding his lost pages and painting graffiti and bringing it to life, which rejuvenates the town and brings colour to it.
Of course,
with the existence of these genies of light so exists dark genies that kill the bullies (I think, PS Access mentioned this???) and Ash needs to get the Genies help in order to fight them
Basically an artistic game about light vs dark with colourful graffiti, all playable without VR and with a DualShock controller.
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It was this vs Gotta Paint 'Em All, but Bob Ross never disappoints :)
Loving the OT. It looks really cool on the dark theme.
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https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/games/concrete-genie-ps4/
The OP lays it out quite succinctly but this stuff's accessible on the PlayStation website.
Main Game
VR Modes
https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/games/concrete-genie-ps4/
Day of release apparently.
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I've been looking forward to this one since the first reveal trailer (can't believe that was nearly 2 years ago). Bummed it isn't getting more of a marketing push - been seeing a lot of comparisons to late-gen exclusives like The Puppeteer that were basically sent out to die. Hoping this gets some good word of mouth and that isn't the case here. So excited to dive in on Tuesday!
You can play the whole game in VR, or is it a separate VR mode?
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Amazing OT. And Bob Ross is the Goat.
Bob Ross is indeed the GOAT
Ah! I see, thanks folks. This looks pretty cool.
Beautiful game, great premise, amazing price. Just need a confirmation that it's not a dood in a disguise and it's mine.
You can Google around and find out the embargo date although I think the date is technically embargo'd
Such a sweet premise, and the visual style is so striking. I'll be picking this one up on my way home if the reviews are good on release day.
Combining personal themes like bullying into gameplay reminds me of Papo and Yo (more people should play it as it's one of the most exemplary emotional games) which also had you manipulating the world to interact with creatures but the theme in that was about the relationship with an alcoholic dad and has one of the best emotionally resonant endings because it's tied to gameplay rather than a cutscene.
According to an Eurogamer interview, the concept came from a concept art Ashwin Kumar did who's one of the VFX artists at PixelOpus:
According to an Eurogamer interview, the concept came from a concept art Ashwin Kumar did who's one of the VFX artists at PixelOpus:
The idea for Concrete Genie came from within that group - more specifically from VFX artist Ashwin Kumar, from who the game's lead character takes his name. Kumar built a pitch around the idea of bullying, creating a piece of concept art that was slowly unpacked by the rest of the team in terms of how it could translate to gameplay.
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"We could only be inspired by this if we incorporated the bullying theme into the game itself," says Robilliard. "This is our third iteration of those mechanics - as the story progresses, and you become invested in the landscapes and the creatures that you've built, it's the bullies in the game that start ruining your artwork, and you get to experience what that feels like. It's not just Ash's artwork - it's your artwork.
"It's unusually difficult to have that - when you go back and expect to see your creature there and something terrible's happened. But it's also, as a gameplay mechanic, very good at incentivising you to fix that situation, it's very compelling to return it to how you originally made it. It's worked out from a design perspective too."
It looks like a thoughtful implementation of a powerful theme, a compelling mix of Okami and Papa and Yo and the kind of artful game that Sony has encouraged so well in the past. "All those games with an authentic emotional connection," says Robilliard as our brief time together comes to an end. "That's definitely something we aspire to."
Apart some perfomance issues with some framerate dips and the lack of HDR (this is a perfect game for it, but unfortunnely it does not have it), game is beautiful and art in movement. We need more games like this one xD
