It’s a short, steel rail line, but one that leads directly to halcyon summers and lingering sorrow. No, this is a fine and fleeting thing that catches you the next day, a coffee cup halfway to your lips. Not that weaponized stuff Disney uses to carpet bomb whole demographics. Both the art and the narrative are suffused with the bittersweet power of nostalgia. Most of us can recall scribbling sloppy masterpieces on construction paper and cement. And while the art style was granular, it excelled at evoking some potent childhood memories. I loved making art, no matter how crowded or silly it looked. They made painting easy, even for someone who can’t. The motion controls are shockingly smooth, with only one issue during my whole playthrough. Then things get dark.īeyond the occasional puzzle hiccup, I ran into some framerate issues, though I stopped noticing them in short order. You feel like you’re slowly reclaiming that lost magic, like things are going to be okay. It’s a powerful statement on the struggles of growing up, with childhood’s end both delayed and impossible to escape. For most of the game’s runtime, Concrete Genie feels like a slow, bittersweet tale about a young man struggling to find his own kind of solace in a broken space with no room for him. We’re diving headfirst into spoiler territory, so proceed with caution. The game started feeling almost predictable, until the last act of the story. The rest of the challenges I faced were tough, but manageable. Thankfully, the other stumbling blocks were comparatively diminutive. One such problem saw me spinning in circles for almost 45 minutes. Once in a while however, they will get waylaid en route. They can travel on any wall (or other vertical surface) in order to reach you. You see, Genies can get stuck while responding to your summons. First, the bad: I found myself rather frustrated by some of the puzzles in Concrete Genie. The other two substantive components are the heart-wrenching story, and the puzzle elements. I speak highly of the art, but it’s only part of the equation.
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