“Almost” because Chicory limits the effect you can have on the world, at least for the first several hours. The soundtrack is soothing, and painting the world is (almost) as calming and healing as you’d expect from a game that’s essentially an interactive coloring book. Chicory is easily one of the most relaxed and relaxing games I’ve played, outside the few unexpectedly tense boss fights capping off each area. The “lite” part of the “Zelda-lite” description is more from Chicory’s refreshing, low-stakes approach to adventuring. The puzzles never challenge too much, but it’s enough to warrant a sense of satisfaction as you solve them and pieces fall into place. It’s a multi-regional, screen-scrolling world with spooky forests, rocky mountain ranges, caves, and a surprising number of puzzles revolving around your paint abilities. I expected plenty of creativity out of Chicory, but what I didn’t expect was such a solid Zelda-lite adventure with vibes similar to Link’s Awakening and a quirky cast of characters to match. Naturally, messages of love and acceptance are always a good thing, but I’d like to see heartfelt games move away from generic greeting-card style platitudes and support these statements with something more substantial. ![]() That applies to established artists as much as it does aspiring ones, with Cheese the amateur becoming the teacher to their Chicory-the-Wielder, weighed down as she is by anxiety and the expectations of others.Ĭhicory handles its messaging more elegantly than some, such as Undertale, though some of its corollaries do come across as shallow. Cheese, and by extension you, are doing the same thing people recognized as talented artists are doing, and there’s little difference in the task and outcome aside from vision and style. Not everyone likes it, but that’s not the point. ![]() Unlike other games, and even Chicory’s own secondary message, it’s not a shallow statement either.Įverything Chicory has you do reinforces this idea, as Cheese recreates the world through their own imaginative lens. A Colorful Tale says everyone can be creative, and is, and should be.
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