Chicory a colorful tale review4/25/2023 The paint tool of Chicory is more the core of its gameplay than its exploration is. The rest of the brush styles are scattered around the world, serving as one of a handful of optional collectible challenges alongside a robust closet of hidden clothing options to find, decorative items you can set up anywhere, and a sidequest involving lost cat children. The most important of these, a fill tool, is mercifully available early on. But over time you'll get access to more tools via collectible "brush styles," most of which are stamps (like stars or hearts) or patterns (dots, stripes) that will enhance your otherwise straightforward line drawing. At the start, you'll only have basic draw/erase functions and four different colors pre-selected by the area you’re in. Your adventure takes you across a world full of charming, food-named locales (towns of Luncheon and Brekkie, the Appie Foothills, Supper Woods, etc), progressing by solving puzzles connected to coloring in the black-and-white world. It's fun and games initially, but things quickly take a turn as you discover a growing darkness troubling your friends and neighbors which seemingly has ties to Chicory, and the brush itself. The protagonist, stumbling upon her brush, takes it up themself and begins filling the world's color back in. But Chicory vanishes, and all the world's color goes with her. It follows a protagonist that you name after your favorite food who is the janitor and number-one fan of Chicory, the sole "wielder" of a magical brush used to color in the otherwise black-and-white world. And it's perhaps even rarer for that personal impact to be accompanied by the kind of fun, concise, self-aware, and encouraging little adventure that indie developer Greg Lobanov and his colleagues present.Ĭhicory is best-described as a top-down Zelda-like adventure sans combat where the entire game is a giant coloring book. Plenty of amazing games tell impactful stories about love, loss, hope, revenge, and so forth, but it's rare for something to dig at me in the small, deeply personal way that Chicory: A Colorful Tale has. While many games generally have something at least somewhat meaningful to say about the world we live in (advertently or no), I often find myself a bit disconnected from the monumental settings so many protagonists are dropped into.
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