As for dialogue, things are usually kept quite simple and there's not a whole lot in the way of branching.
Whether you're awakening abstract aliens or kickstarting a cultural revolution, holding X to shred is something that just feels good, even though it practically serves no mechanical purpose here - a rare thing for a game to be able to pull off. Instead, it's more about just travelling through and drinking in these utterly insane landscapes at your own pace, jamming along as you see fit to see what impact your mastery of the fretboard might have on your surroundings. There's next to no pushback from the game or challenge, no real hazards to avoid or fail state to worry about, no collectibles to go out of your way for (save for a couple of quick achievement-based distractions). In the case of platforming, I don't use the term 'simple' there lightly. Interaction comes in several flavours: simple platforming, dialogue choices, and musical interludes. I mentioned earlier that The Artful Escape doesn't feel much like a traditional video game, and that's deserving of a little elaboration as to what you actually do. Honestly, there's no telling what you'll see or hear next in an adventure this out there. Or maybe that should be high-flying whales.
It's almost entirely for flavour and serves little, if any, actual gameplay purpose, but you'll want to do it anyway, whether through generally harmonising with the dulcet tones of the universe itself or by making your mark on the multiverse by punctuating it with riff-powered poses, raucous power slides, and high-flying wails. That wasn't the music you were hearing before - it was just the backing track, and you can drop in and out of the mix as you see fit as you run through these wonderfully weird landscapes and just jam along with the world. The Artful Escape's soundtrack is generally quite chilled and otherworldly, but that's offset wonderfully by the fact that Francis can whip out a holographic guitar pretty much at will and start shredding. You meet crazy characters who look like they were assembled from crafts day paper doll offcuts by someone who was absolutely tripping balls. You see the kinds of curious vistas which, if you saw them on an album cover, would serve as a fair indicator that the shortest track would likely clock in at around eleven minutes long. The search for inspiration for his alter ego leads Francis across the cosmic expanse, taking in some truly jaw-dropping sights along the way.
perhaps too big for a quiet mountain town teenager, and so the quest to develop the greatest rock persona ever and become a living legend begins. Francis wants to blow minds and change lives with his soaring solos, to channel the furthest reaches of the cosmos through an axe and an amp, to musically explore not just the unknown but the unknowable. But Francis doesn't want to play folk music. The Artful Escape tells the tale of young Francis Vendetti, an aspiring guitarist desperate to break out of the shadow of his uncle, Johnson Vendetti - a famous folk musician who recently passed away, leaving all eyes in their sleepy home town to fall on Francis to continue Johnson's folk legacy.
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