It’s a game that entirely understands how every part contributes to a whole, and how that whole is greater than the sum of their individual parts might suggest, and ends up delivering an extremely resonant experience. The story and content would fall flat without engaging execution to invest the player. The art style wouldn’t amount to anything except pretty pictures without the substance from the story and context backing it up.
Yes, the settings for the game are imaginative and jaw-dropping but they wouldn’t have the potency they do without the incredibly strong art style backing them up. It’s supremely well accomplished in almost everything it sets out to do, from the stunning and jaw-dropping art style to the psychedelic vistas it has its players traverse over the course of its short run time from the surprisingly sharp writing that breathes life into its characters, to just how incredibly well realized the settings that said characters inhabit are.Įverything just coalesces to form an extremely coherent and singular vision for what the game, as a story and as an experience, sets out to do, to the extent that it’s hard to separate any one of its triumphs from the others. The Artful Escape is an unexpectedly powerful experience, a marvelous coming of age story about one man’s quest for his identity and his place within the world, and his own life and community, as viewed by him, and not as defined by others.
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