While I’m far from an artist, it was relaxing to colour and customise every area in the game. This put a grin on my face whenever I encountered a new character in the game.Ĭhicory features a lot of painting, customising, and sensitive topics. It’s safe to say, I was wrong every time (whose favourite food is Broccoli?!).
Naturally, as I came across every character, I tried to guess what their favourite food was.
I chose Ramen and it stuck with me throughout the game. When starting a new game, you are asked what your favourite food is. The story, itself, is absolutely beautiful and I enjoyed playing through every minute that Greg Lobanov and the team have created. Picking up the brush kickstarts your journey to paint the world back together. As you begin to inspect the problem, you notice Chicory - the rabbit the game is named after -is missing and the brush has been left behind. After a few tremors, the colour in Picnic evaporates.
The game begins with your protagonist at the heart of where the colour stems from Chicory’s tower. “ Chicory features a lot of painting, customising, and sensitive topics.”Ĭhicory: A Colorful Tale caught my attention during the LudoNarraCon, and I have been eagerly waiting to play it since. If you missed this beautiful tale as you were too caught up with the E3 buzz, then I highly recommend you go back and play through every minute of this wonderful game. However, Chicory: A Colorful Tale tells a deep story, touching on themes of mental health. Fortunately, I haven’t experienced a lot of the feelings that many stories portray. And while these may be important issues for some, I find myself a little disconnected. Most games tell stories about love, loss, heartbreak, hope, or revenge. Take the time to play this one, I've no doubt it'll be near the top of all the GOTY lists come December.Stories come in all shapes and sizes. With music by the composer behind Celeste's soundtrack, an immense amount of depth and thought put into even the simplest of mechanics, a deeply thoughtful array of options to make the game as user-friendly as possible (ty misophonia filter!!!), Chicory is easily one of the best indie games to come out in recent years, easily and readily comparable to all-time greats like Undertale and Celeste in almost every way. The gameplay is just as deceptively simple as the overarching themes what begins as a sort of platforming-by-way-of-coloring-in-the-world-around-you evolves into some of the more technically complex boss fights I've run into, bending and twisting the way you use a controller/mouse, all with a deeply forgiving, customizable level of difficulty that keeps things as fun as they are challenging. You'll cry, but you'll laugh far more often, and if you have even the slightest hint of a creative spirit in your heart, you'll be moved to try and be the best you that you can be, and to reach out as best you can, to help those around you along on the journey up to the metaphorical mountaintop. Beneath that surface lies an evocative study of imposter syndrome, the pressure of trying to make everyone around you happy, what it means to be an artist (of any kind, really), and a painfully, cathartically genuine portrait of several distinctly different types of mental illness. A beautiful, heartfelt, achingly real game that is, on the surface, about a cartoon dog (named after your favorite food) going on a magical, A beautiful, heartfelt, achingly real game that is, on the surface, about a cartoon dog (named after your favorite food) going on a magical, old-school-Legend-of-Zelda-inspired journey to inherit a magical paintbrush that is the source of all colors in the world.
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