Whoever wrote the dialogue knows exactly what depression feels like, how self-doubt can swallow you whole and leave you empty, how panic can push others away, who are actually just trying to help.
#Chicory a colorful tale metacritic professional#
What does it mean to have talent? What makes someone a good artist? What makes a good mentor and what doesn't? As someone who wanted to become a professional artist as well, this game speaks to me on a level I didn't expect.
Not only the skill that you have to learn, but the constant exposure of something you created, the competition with others, etc. What on first glance appears to be a light-hearted world, in which anthro characters with food names rely on a magical brush to bring colors to their reality, quickly turns into a story that explores personal and deep topics of self-worth, impostor syndrome and general mental health. And is the reason I hold it in such high regards. But this story, and it's characters, is what carries this game to something truly special and absolutely unique.
Very cute, very charming! Decorate any screen with collectable furniture, paint everything how you like. Game-play vise it's pretty much a digital coloring book with light puzzle solving elements and lots of exploration, guided by a linear story. Game-play vise it's pretty much a digital coloring book with light puzzle solving elements and Chicory: A colorful Tale is GOTY 2021 for me. … ExpandĬhicory: A colorful Tale is GOTY 2021 for me. Take the time to play this one, I've no doubt it'll be near the top of all the GOTY lists come December. With music by the composer behind Celeste's soundtrack, an immense amount of depth and thought put into even the simplest of mechanics, a deeply thoughtful array of options to make the game as user-friendly as possible (ty misophonia filter!!!), Chicory is easily one of the best indie games to come out in recent years, easily and readily comparable to all-time greats like Undertale and Celeste in almost every way. The gameplay is just as deceptively simple as the overarching themes what begins as a sort of platforming-by-way-of-coloring-in-the-world-around-you evolves into some of the more technically complex boss fights I've run into, bending and twisting the way you use a controller/mouse, all with a deeply forgiving, customizable level of difficulty that keeps things as fun as they are challenging. You'll cry, but you'll laugh far more often, and if you have even the slightest hint of a creative spirit in your heart, you'll be moved to try and be the best you that you can be, and to reach out as best you can, to help those around you along on the journey up to the metaphorical mountaintop. Beneath that surface lies an evocative study of imposter syndrome, the pressure of trying to make everyone around you happy, what it means to be an artist (of any kind, really), and a painfully, cathartically genuine portrait of several distinctly different types of mental illness. A beautiful, heartfelt, achingly real game that is, on the surface, about a cartoon dog (named after your favorite food) going on a magical, A beautiful, heartfelt, achingly real game that is, on the surface, about a cartoon dog (named after your favorite food) going on a magical, old-school-Legend-of-Zelda-inspired journey to inherit a magical paintbrush that is the source of all colors in the world.
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