I loved a lot of what I played, but the most exciting part of the demo is wondering what might come next. Blackberry, motivated by her own perfectionism, belittled and berated Chicory.
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In the last trial she did at Brunch Canyon. Growing up, all she cared about was being one, and training with Blackberry, she felt like she had to hide herself from her. With a promising range of platforming gimmicks in the demo alone, inventive boss battles and NPCs bursting with personality, Chicory clearly has a lot of depth to it already, and is only going to become more interesting once it’s finished. Chicory starts off as a mess, who feels like a failure because she felt inadequate as a wielder.
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There are also elastic trees that can fling you forward if you paint them, suggesting the full Chicory is going to wring more ideas out of simply painting trees, especially given that the first boss rewards you with glow in the dark paint.
Your magic paintbrush lets you shrink some trees that are blocking your path, but later on you might need to scamper over their tops, so you’ll need to unpaint them. There's not time for much of it in the demo, but what's there is creative. While the tone hits the same whimsical notes, the comparison doesn’t do justice to Chicory’s inventive paintbrush or the platforming, which is clearly where the action’s going to be come the full release. It would be unfair to label Chicory as simply Animal Crossing with a boss battle. I assume the full game is going to be a masterclass in trolling. ‘That’s all you should need’, he tells you. Pumpernickel the beaver, meanwhile, wants four colours to be used in painstakingly equal amounts, and once you’re finished the reward is… a smile. Macaroon, a squirrel with the temperament of Gordon Ramsay, demands his house be painted a tough colour, and rewards you with a hat if you smother it purple. The painting feels intuitive and smooth, and the game is careful to inject personality into this part. Taking Chicory’s brush, it’s your job to bring that colour back. Soon, though, all of the colour is wiped away from the world, leaving it in black and white. The game begins with a vibrant splash of colour and an art style that looks like a child’s drawing on the fridge, if you child was actually talented. It wasn't what I expected at all when I started Chicory. It demanded quicker reactions, greater tactical thought and much more awareness of your character-it almost felt like playing a different game entirely, though in the best possible way. The rest of Chicory plays out like a lovely garden picnic, but the boss battle was like chugging a 9% pint of beer to wash it down. They shot laser beams at me, they fired their eyelashes like missiles, they surrounded me like sharks.
The eye split off into six smaller eyeballs, all moving around the screen, blinking and winking at odd rhythms.
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