To make a long, hand-waving story much shorter, some local bullies rip the pages from Ash’s sketchbook, and he soon finds himself in possession of a magical paintbrush that lets him adorn every wall he encounters with glowing technicolor art. Playing as Ash, a young boy with a passion for sketching and painting, you’re tasked with bringing color and hope back to the abandoned fishing village of Denska, which has collapsed in the wake of an environmental catastrophe and now finds itself overrun with “darkness,” a black-and-purple mixture of goo and thorny tendrils symbolizing, and perhaps literally caused by, the negative emotions of the town’s former inhabitants.
#Concrete genie vr only free
This is a game about art, but the most idealized, big-tent, Bob Ross version of the idea-an art that everyone can and should make and enjoy, free of judgment or critique. A lemming, too.Īll that is to say I found Concrete Genie, the new PlayStation 4 exclusive from Pixelopus, refreshingly naive in its approach to art.
Mostly, I suspect, I’m blindly following the lead of some art world gatekeeper I’ve never even heard of. I’m sure I could dredge up some Barthes or something from my college days, but I’m not sure I really feel any of that. I can’t explain how Damien Hirst can bedazzle a skull or put a shark in formaldehyde and make millions while brilliant figurative painters are stuck exchanging their work for Reddit karma. I can’t tell you why Andy Warhol was a genius for creating images designed to be reproduced in bulk but Thomas Kinkade was a hack for doing the same. What I mean is that I don’t really grasp the underlying philosophy of the art world.
I don’t just mean that I draw or paint on the level of a fourth grader-though that’s certainly true. When it comes to the visual arts, I’m an idiot.
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