
The overall pace is slow and poorly communicated. The first half introduces you to the painting mechanics and the second half takes a more traditional action-adventure turn with Ash skating around on paint streaks and hurling fireballs at rogue genies. The game is unofficially split into two parts. The elemental types play a role in solving puzzles, like needing a wind genie to blow a box off a ledge, and they can also give you super paint for scrubbing out especially stubborn darkness. They come in all shapes and sizes depending on what your sketchbook allows/inspires you to create. She gives Ash the ability to paint other genies into existence at special locations across Denska, they control either fire, wind or electricity. She’s not a creepy blue Will Smith genie that pops out of a lamp, but a shaggy Sendak-ian beast that lives inside the walls of a haunted lighthouse. Lightbulb locations are marked on your map so, aside from some light platform puzzling, they’re easy to find.Īsh brings Luna to life in *Concrete Genie.( Pixelopus / SonyĪll this magic comes courtesy of a genie named Luna. Specifically, you paint landscapes themed around a season - spring, summer, fall and winter - that reduce darkness by magically illuminating any nearby strings of lightbulbs hanging around Denska. This gives cover to some old-fashioned collectible hunting: grab more pages, paint more stuff. What you paint is limited to designs found in your sketchbook, a Macguffin of sorts that is torn asunder and scattered on the winds by local bullies. It must’ve taken a lot of work to get such a crucial mechanic exactly right.

The painting mechanics are great, with intuitive motion controls (you dip the controller up and down like a brush) and a system that lets people with no artistic ability (i.e. The ooze feeds off negative emotions, but instead of making the Statue of Liberty boogie to Jackie Wilson, you create phantasmic murals with a magical paintbrush that drives the darkness away. An indestructible ooze creeps across Denska, the seaside hometown of Ash, our young hero.
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Concrete Genie is not a perfect game, but it could be a perfect start for a series or franchise given the solid foundation underlying a wildly fun and creative game, albeit a short and poorly-paced one. And while the price isn’t everything, it’s something I kept in mind while I played Pixelopus’s latest release, a graffiti-driven children’s tale about friendship in an age of darkness. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Concrete Genie retails for $30. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

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