Nintendo switch chicory11/26/2023 Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) See, with the entire game being in black and white for narrative reasons, it’s your duty and privilege to colour everything back in. Yes, brilliantly, Chicory’s Switch incarnation includes (optional) touch controls for painting, which absolutely feel like the way the game was always intended to be played. Indeed, these sections reminded us of Nintendo DS titles in the way they had you juggle moving and touching. There’s no focus on combat, here, though boss battles are present. In practice this is a Zelda-ish top-down sort of thing, but that’s only on the very surface. Your player character, Double Sausage and Egg McMuffin (they’re actually named after your favourite food, so this handle will vary), takes up the Brush and sets out into the world of Picnic to get to the bottom of what’s going on. More pressingly, indeed, all the colour in the world appears to have vanished. One day, the present Wielder – the titular Chicory – appears to have gone missing and left the Brush behind. You play as a little dog creature who happens to be gainfully employed as the janitor of the elusive Wielder, they who, er, wield a magic paintbrush which you’ll be unsurprised to learn ends up in your own hands. Surely, though, it can’t also be a charming adventure game on top of a paean to, and canvas for, creativity? It can! It is!! Accessibility Features Gameplay It’s not the most efficient medium for this kind of individuality, for creating and owning something one-of-a-kind, but Chicory – against all odds – manages to pull it off. Chicory: A Colorful Tale’s extremely difficult job is to translate that sense of ownership, the pocket creative universe of the artist, into… well… a video game. Even in its most commercial, populist form - including when it’s a small part of a much larger product - the work of an individual artist is ultimately recognisable, whether from obvious sweeping traits or tiny little consistencies that come to define them. There are few things more personal than art.
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