

The paint you use to colour the town looks shiny and bright as they really illuminate any room you enter. Graphically, Concrete Genie is like an art book that comes to life. The last part of the game also has some boss fights which are really cool to engage in. This part of the game made the game much more enjoyable in my opinion as it was getting boring just painting the town in pretty colours at the beginning of it. Without giving away too many spoilers, the latter third of the game changes where Ash can use his brush as a weapon. Not to mention Ash's genies also help him if he needs to solve a small puzzle to open another part of town. Ash usually has a certain quota he must meet before he can continue onto the next area. Even if Ash falls down from a very high distance, you get put into the same position to restart.Īnyway if you manage to avoid the bullies, Ash's main mission is to light up the dark regions of Denska. You pretty much just get buried inside the dumpster and you can try to avoid them again where you left off.

Not to mention it's not really ‘game over' when you get caught by the bullies either. None of the bullies are agile enough to climb up to the rooftops so it's pretty easy avoiding the bullies in this game. Thankfully, it's easy to distract the bullies in this game because all you really need to do is climb up the rooftops and distract them by using Ash's voice. While the concept of the game sounds easy, Ash's quest is made a little more difficult because the several bullies in the game are always hanging around town threatening to put him inside a dumpster. The more accurate PlayStation Move controllers are also compatible, although this is only usable in the game's special VR modes only. Well you can simply rectify this so you can control the paint brush using the right stick instead. I actually thought using the motion controls felt too gimmicky and unresponsive during my playthrough. There are many designs that Ash can choose from and you can make the town look as pretty as possible. The controls in Concrete Genie aren't hard because you can guide the paint brush using the motion controls of the DualShock 4 controller. Some of the genies that come to life can aid Ash like getting rid of real life objects that are in the way of him painting a wall or getting into a newer area of town. Your goal at the beginning of the game is very simple because Ash has to literally light up the drab parts of town using his magical paint brush. In his quest to recover the pages of his book, some of his creations come to life and these are the genies that help him paint the town of Denska. It is Ash's job to repaint the town making it more vibrant than ever before and he does this by using an oversized paint brush.Īt the start of the game, Ash gets manhandled by some mean bullies that rip out the pages of his art book. In Concrete Genie, players assume the role of a young boy named Ash that lives in a drab dull looking town called Denska. It is one of the more unique games I have played all year, but is it really enjoyable? Sometimes puzzles need to be solved that involve getting multiple genies into one spot, which requires leading them from walls and around buildings, oftentimes some distance away.Concrete Genie is a new PlayStation 4 exclusive where you can literally paint the town using a giant paint brush that gives life to inanimate objects. As Ash works to rehabilitate the port town, he fills up each region with paintings and genies, transforming the area into a living, breathing space once again. Painting these genies on the wall leads to them requesting certain things through icons and speech bubbles, like campfires on the ground or stars in the sky, to fill up lightbulbs hanging on those same walls. The gameplay loop of Concrete Genie involves Ash collecting these pages of his torn-up sketchbook and creating genies from them. They then lock Ash into a one-way tram to the lighthouse, which is purported to be haunted by a ghost, but actually contains the power to bring his genies to life. In the opening cutscene, this group of bullies takes his sketchbook filled with creatures born of Ash’s imagination and scatter the pages to the wind. In addition to an obvious economic downturn, the town has been overrun by a gang of bullies who relish in making Ash’s life harder.

In Concrete Genie, players take control of Ash, a young kid who spends his time in a dilapidated port town with shades of the Pacific northwest and other coastal towns.
