However you present them, these creatures are much needed companions in an otherwise pretty solitary adventure. Dotted throughout each area of the map are opportunities to paint these monsters that inhabit your murals, and again, it's largely up to you what they look like. The titular genies are the stars of the show. The fruits of your labour are almost always a sight to behold - it's satisfying, and sure to bring a smile to your face. What's more, it's almost impossible to make something that doesn't look wonderful - even if you've not a creative bone in your body. Despite not being able to paint just anything, you have plenty of freedom within the boundaries. Painting is restricted to the pages you've unlocked or found within the miniature open world, each one giving you either new landscape items, genie decorations, or new genies to create. Motion controls don't sit well with everyone, and you can swap them out for the right stick if you prefer, but they do make the game very accessible, and it feels wonderful to have your actions turn into glowing, animated pictures. After highlighting your chosen design, you simply hold R2 and move the cursor as if painting a brushstroke. The good news is that painting is wonderfully tactile and intuitive. Ash controls as you'd expect - he even scales buildings like a low rent Nathan Drake - but when you're in paint mode, the DualShock 4's gyro sensor takes precedence. It's important we mention the tutorial, because Concrete Genie's controls are somewhat unorthodox. After Ash receives a magical paintbrush, a decent tutorial gets you familiarised with the basics, and then you're tasked with reviving the town by painting living murals on its decrepit walls. Equally as important as Ash is the town of Denska, abandoned and overrun by delinquents after an accident causes a mysterious dark rot to take hold. As he's minding his own business, some bullies arrive, steal his sketchbook, and tear out all the pages before sending him up to the supposedly haunted lighthouse.
Having clearly been inspired by the cinematic storytelling of Sony's major players, the game begins by introducing you to Ash, a young boy with an artistic flair. That's not to say this is your typical PlayStation 4 exclusive - far from it. It's fair to say the young team has done just that with Concrete Genie, a far more ambitious title that aligns itself more with the regular output of Worldwide Studios. Its debut game, Entwined, didn't set the world alight, and so its follow-up needed to up the ante. Of all Sony's in-house developers, Pixelopus perhaps has the most to prove.
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Republished on Wednesday 27th January, 2021: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of February 2021's PS Plus lineup.
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