

The first step is to create the body which can be vertical or in some cases horizontal. Scattered about the city are spots where you can create a Genie, and the more parts/pages you have found the more creative you can be.

And as expected, there is a bit of backtracking involved in gathering up all the collectibles. Another important element is finding those pages from your book, which adds to your growing palette of artistic components and Genie body parts. The primary objective in each part of the city is to light up all the strings of lights hanging on the walls by creating your own living graffiti on the walls beneath them. Genies have elemental abilities like fire, wind, and electricity and you get to decide which Genies are needed when it comes to solving various environmental puzzles as you set out to restore Denska to its former glory.Ĭoncrete Genie has a very open-ended gameplay loop that allows a lot of freedom in exploration and artistic expression. Potato Head) that will spring to life and follow him around the city. Using the power of paint, Ash is able to create these wonderful living drawings using a combination of symbolized drawing components, but even better Ash is able to create these amazing Genies using various body parts (think Mr. Luna repairs his sketchbook, gives Ash a magic paintbrush, and introduces him to Splotch, the first of several magical creatures that will find a home in Ash’s backpack. The encounter ends with the bullies sending Ash to the nearby island lighthouse, but that is where the magic and the adventure begin.Īsh discovers a magical energy inside the lighthouse that brings one of his favorite drawings to life. Naturally, the bullies catch up to Ash and swipe his sketchbook scattering the pages to the wind and all corners and rooftops of Denska – something to collect in your upcoming adventures. This once thriving fishing village has become environmentally and emotionally polluted by an oil spill that has brought a supernatural darkness to the town.

#DOES CONCRETE GENIE REQUIRE VR FREE#
The game opens with a fairly long cutscene where we meet Ash, a young artist who spends his days drawing in his sketchbook while avoiding the local gang of bullies who seem to have free fun over the abandoned city of Denska. Simply put, Concrete Genie defies everything we know about gaming and game design, effectively turning the player into a member of the studio’s art department while infusing the artistic creation parts with just enough traditional adventure and exploration to keep things familiar. Or practice your new skills in Free Paint, where you’ll manipulate your paintbrush with two PlayStation Move to create beautiful, living landscapes.It’s very rare when I’m only an hour or so into a game and I’m ready to declare it a major contender for Game of the Year, but that’s exactly how I felt playing Concrete Genie, a stunningly beautiful and inspirational exercise in originality that would give birth to a new genre if I thought this experience could ever be replicated. In Experience, you’ll help a Genie discover a mysterious power through painting and see your art come to life from a new perspective. Concrete Genie follows the heartwarming journey of a bullied teen named Ash, who escapes his troubles by bringing his colorful imagination to life in his sketchbook, while exploring his hometown of Denska – a once bright and bustling seaside town now polluted by Darkness.Īsh discovers a mysterious lighthouse, where he finds a magical energy that charges his paintbrush with ‘Living Paint’ capable of creating magnificent masterpieces that can purify Denska’s polluted walls.Īsh must harness the magical properties of his powerful paintbrush to eliminate the Darkness polluting Denska with the help of the mischievous Genies he creates along the way.Ĭan Ash overcome his personal struggles and paint his hometown back to life?Ĭoncrete Genie includes two PlayStation VR modes* – VR Experience and VR Free Paint.
