CONCRETE GENIE VR PS4

They rival only the chibi versions of the main characters from Unruly Heroes as being the most ridiculously cute game characters of this year. These are smiling, fang-mouthed, dot-eyed, noodly-limbed, sorta blobbish beings that you have to draw and bring to life, and they are adorable. Watching it all pop to life is stunning every time, even when it’s something you’ve drawn with before.īut the true highlight is in the titular Genies. The landscape elements that Ash can draw are stunning, from Northern lights and snowy peaks to totem poles and fresh apples planted on trees, with detailed grass at their feet. The remnants of Denska that showcase what was once a bustling factory and tourism town are impressive enough on their own, along with the unique style and facial animations for the characters, but once you get drawing on the walls, magic happens. Jumping to the obvious, Concrete Genie is graphically stunning.

And after a chance encounter with some bullies leads to his sketchbook getting ripped up, he winds up heading to the lighthouse, where a mysterious being named Luna grants him the power of a magic brush that allows him to not only paint vivid landscapes, but also lets him create living wall-bound genies that can live in them, Promising to restore beauty to Denska, Ash sets out to hopefully make the Darkness go away. Our protagonist is Ash, a teenage artist who still longs for Denska’s glory days. Oh, and the mysterious glowing substance called Darkness that grows over everything doesn’t help. And now joining that club would be Concrete Genie, a unique third-person action/adventure game from developers Pixelopus all about the joy of creating artwork that may very well be another of this year’s hidden gems.Ĭoncrete Genie takes place in the small coastal town of Denska, which has been gradually abandoned over time after an oil spill caused notable damage to various businesses.

CONCRETE GENIE VR PS4

Even if they aren’t massive titles, they clearly showcase what the PS4 can deliver when it comes to fun, creative, exclusive games. Ghost Giant is being hailed as a charming VR adventure and Blood & Truth is an impressive VR action game that actually topped the charts in the UK, to state a couple of examples. It made me wonder why none of the smaller, more acclaimed PS4 exclusives were receiving this level of passionate responses.

Perhaps to try and compensate for this, I’ve seen quite few PS fans stick up for Days Gone, the open-world zombie game that I and several others merely wrote off as “okay” or “decent.” Not that I can’t comprehend why one would enjoy Days Gone, but why choose this as the hill to die on? The PlayStation 4 is going through a drought when it comes to major exclusive games right now, seemingly lasting from Spider-Man to Death Stranding.

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