One drawback, however, is that it’s not always 100% clear what needs doing next. In other words, Chicory, like Wandersong, is happy to punch you right in the feelings on any given occasion. An initial interaction will likely yield a few funny lines, but keep talking and you might unearth an emotional conversation about a lost friend, secret fears, or an affecting discussion about self-worth. And you’re not just colouring you’ll also be picking up litter, finding lost children, buying plants, placing decorations, delivering mail, and, of course, interacting with the inhabitants of this weird and wonderful world for another of Chicory’s greatest strengths: the dialogue. If, like me, you sometimes get overwhelmed by just how much there is to colour, then fear not - there are also brush options to help fill in large areas. You’ll find new ways to explore by interacting with colour like a plant that’ll fling you up onto a ledge if you try to colour it in, or an orb that will explode and obliterate the rocks blocking your path. Each new region you travel to has its own colour palette, meaning you’ll switch up your style without even realising it, and the addition of new brush styles - plus the option of creating your own - keep it a novel experience. As your confidence and experience grows, so does your relationship with The Brush, and soon you’re finding new brush styles and unlocking new traversal opportunities, and flinging The Brush around like a pro.Ĭhicory is wonderfully paced so that colouring in the world never begins to feel even a little stale. This idea of being entirely unprepared is reflected in your initial experience with The Brush, and your first few goes at splodging some colour into the world will most likely look and feel a little wobbly. You choose your name (everybody in Chicory is named after food - my character was Biscuit) - and then you’re suddenly gifted with the awesome power of The Brush, and flung out into a black and white world where all colour has vanished, to make what you can of it. Like with Wandersong, the focus isn’t on a fabled hero but on a ‘regular’ person, and on how their actions, and their decision to stand up against the darkness, affects the world around them. You are, in fact, working as Chicory’s janitor, while Chicory themselves is the Wielder - the only creature in Picnic Province capable of using The Brush to paint colour into the world, until that Brush is handed to you. In Chicory: A Colorful Tale, you are not Chicory.
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