You can also bring to life differently coloured genies, which have unique abilities such as being able to set fire to certain objects or activate electric power circuits. But that is the prime goal of the story, as you’re encouraged to draw murals on walls with fairy lights on them – which then light up to tell you you’ve finished. The whole act of creating your mural is clearly meant to be the central appeal of the game but it’s not really all that interesting and without the ability to draw freeform shapes you’re not doing much more than just stamping shapes onto the side of buildings.
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The prints aren’t terribly varied though, and most are just various plants, plus different weather effects like clouds and rainbows, and background details such as stars or the sun. These are represented as lost pages from your sketchbook, which you can collect as you go along, and by using the motion controls of the DualShock 4 you can bend and contort them to make your own designs.
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What Concrete Genie is really all about is drawing pictures on the walls of Denska using a series of what are essentially prints. Suffice it to say that the backstory is highly contrived and doesn’t make a lick of sense, and neither does most of the gameplay. An accident with a shipping tanker has polluted the water, except not with oil but with a strange magical substance called the Darkness which… makes everything a bit miserable? The game isn’t too clear on what the Darkness is or what it was doing in an oil tanker but the upshot of it all is that everyone has evacuated the town, except for Ash and a gang of bullies.Īsh is an accomplished artist who befriends a 2D genie stuck in the wall of a lighthouse, that gives him a magic paintbrush that can be used to paint murals and bring other genies to life when he finds them sketched on the floor – sketches which he previously made when he was a kid, except for the one at the lighthouse which… oh we give up. The problem is we have a feeling we’re going to forget about it again just as quickly.Ĭoncrete Genie casts you as a young boy named Ash who used to live in a small fishing village called Denska.
In fact, before our review copy turned up, we’d completely forgotten Concrete Genie even existed.
The PS4’s latest exclusive mixes Jet Set Radio with a touching coming of age story, but how does it stand up against other Sony classics?ĭid you know Sony were releasing a brand new first party exclusive for the PlayStation 4 this week? If the answer’s no we’re not surprised, because they’ve made absolutely no effort to promote it. Concrete Genie (PS4) – lighting up the darkness… slightly
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