You actually do all of these things in the game, but they’re also all metaphors, man. It’s like sliding down an endless tree branch in a magical forest. The Artful Escape is like riding an elephant-sized moth toward the setting sun. But The Artful Escape is also a game about free association, so let’s indulge in some. Never have I played a game like the intro to a Parliament record: Partying on the mothership / I am the mothership connection / Gettin' down in 3-D / Light year groovin'.įunk isn’t a perfect comparison for The Artful Escape, a game specifically about rock ‘n’ roll and a young prodigy’s journey to guitar stardom. Some are like playground dodgeball or an after-school fight club behind the McDonald’s dumpster. Others are like slot machines, ding-dinging serotonin receptors with random victory. The Artful Escape is coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC ( Steam) on September 9, 2021.Some games are like Skinner boxes, parceling out rewards for pulling the right levers. Traverse landscapes made of sound, triggered by your movements, as if the world itself were an instrument.
Walk, run, double jump, air walk, light cannon, trip, and climb across the multiverse.
Converse with all manner of being: disenchanted publicans, nostalgic villagers, lumbering alien wildlife, and reality defying-behemoths. Create your own stage persona from the sci-fi beginnings of your backstory to the sequins in your facepaint. Using his “LoudJacket,” Francis Vendetti summons holographic amplifiers and cannonades of impossible laser arrays. Close Encounters of the Third Kind-style musical jams. The Artful Escape will feature voice performances by Michael Johnston, Caroline Kinley, Lena Headey, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Strong and Carl Weathers. Players will experience close encounters of the third kind-style musical jams, endless possibilities for custom on-stage personas, conversations with all manners of being from disenchanted publicans to lumbering alien wildlife, as well as the ability to walk, run, double jump, air walk, light cannon, trip and dance across the multiverse. In the game, players will traverse majestic landscapes made of sound, triggered by their movements, as if the world itself were an instrument. As Francis, a teenage guitar prodigy, players set out on a psychedelic, multidimensional journey to inspire his stage persona. In The Artful Escape, players take on the role of performer Francis Vendetti on the eve of his first performance as he battles with the legacy of a dead folk legend and the cosmic wanderings of his own imagination. The Artful Escape is an action, adventure, exploration, narrative driven, musical-laser-light-battle kind of game.
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