While it sounds great, it?s also a sound that could?ve been created at any time in the last 55 years or so. It?s all about a kid who dreams of breaking free from his folkie heritage (more on that in a moment) and unleashing his inner Hendrix. There are occasionally sequences where you need to press a few more buttons, but they?re more like a game of memory than what you?d associate with most music games.įor that matter, as a game about music, The Artful Escape doesn?t do anything groundbreaking. For the most part, you just run across the landscape, holding down the Y button, while your character coaxes all kinds of crazy sounds out of his guitar. Likewise, as a music game, it?s nothing noteworthy. You occasionally bounce or slide, which is neat, but if you judged The Artful Escape by any kind of platformer standards, it wouldn?t be very impressive. Take, for example, the fact that it?s kind of a platformer ? except you really only ever move forward, and the jumps aren?t very difficult. If you were to look at any of its component pieces individually, they wouldn?t seem like much, but somehow, when you add them all together, the end result is magic. The Artful Escape is a perfect example of a whole being greater than the sum of its parts.

Also on: PS4, PS5, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X

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