![]() Use your painting powers to explore new places, solve puzzles, help your friends, and change the world! Here is a brief synopsis for the game, per its eShop listing:Ĭhicory: A Colorful Tale is a top-down adventure game in a coloring book world where you can draw on anything. The Switch already has an expansive library of indies, and now it’s just scored one of the best of the year. ![]() Chicory can be picked up right now from the Switch eShop for $19.99 USD. The real surprise came when it was revealed that the game is launching today. During the sizzle reel, we were shown gameplay, confirming that the title will be making its way to the hybrid console. What’s more, it’s available to play now.Ĭhicory: A Colorful Tale made an appearance during the latest Nintendo Indie World Showcase earlier today. Previously only available on Steam, the adventure game is making its way to the Nintendo Switch. Whether it be for the gorgeously unique art style on the endearing characters, it’s widely regarded among the best indie (and non-indie) launches in 2021. Sadly, the game doesn’t give you a large color palette, usually giving you four colors per region, severely limiting what you can do in each map.Chicory: A Colorful Tale was one of the delightful video game releases of this year. Each new tile I’d visit felt like a page of a coloring book, waiting for me to fill it up with my own creativity. I thought that having to deal with a completely black-and-white world at first would be annoying, but that ended up being the complete opposite. Thankfully, these moments are also the ones which feature the game’s best background tunes. From out of nowhere, you’ll stop coloring a rat’s house to cheer it up, to fighting some macabre bosses which move around the arena like a motorcycle with a nitrous boost. You just don’t have the same drawing and painting precision with an analog stick (or the ultra-sensitive touchpad) as you would get with a mouse.ĭespite being the single friendliest game I’ve played in 2021 as a whole (yes, even more than DC Super Hero Girls), Chicory: A Colorful Tale features some tough puzzle solving, dungeon exploration, and a handful of boss battles that are way more difficult and tense than the rest of the game. It certainly works and it’s more comfortable that you would imagine, but it was clearly meant to be played on a PC. The game does one hell of job trying to emulate the feeling of playing a proper mouse and keyboard game with a controller, and I have nothing but the utmost respect for the developers for ALMOST achieving that. While moving with the left stick, you have free control of your magical paintbrush with either the right stick or the DualSense’s touchpad. The control scheme is easily Chicory‘s highlight. Granted, in a much simplified and borderline dangerless manner, but the point stands. It took reaching a pivotal moment at the end of the first level for me to finally appreciate the game for what it actually is: a feel-good hit that mixes elements from Animal Crossing, Undertale, and, believe it or not, The Legend of Zelda. It was cute as heck, but its gameplay was quite boring. I won’t lie, at first I just wasn’t “getting” Chicory. The world has suddenly lost all of its color and it’s up to you to solve this problem. The first chapter mostly revolves around meeting the people living in a nearby town, learning how to handle the game’s unique control scheme, and solving some of their color-related issues. The game itself starts off pretty slowly. However, as time goes on the story becomes a lot more engrossing, with layers upon layers of subplots, character development, emotions, and the occasional dumb joke, because we’re only human after all. At first, you’re actually just a kid pretending to be a hero, not even being recognized as a wielder by your peers or local populace. He takes the mantle of the world’s “wielder”, an artist responsible for filling the world with color, after the previous person in charge, a bunny called Chicory, decided not to go on with her job. If have enough time, skill, and patience, you can turn what was once a black-and-white map into a colorful setting.Ĭhicory: A Colorful Tale is a story starring a janitor named after your favorite food (nice Earthbound reference, by the way).
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