

Includes 3 exclusive guitar picks featuring mind-blowing imagery inspired by The Artful Escape.

Five different parts light up and Francis need to repeat them in the correct order Simon Says-style to create sounds, but with room for some experimentation in length and timing. The Artful Escape (Nintendo Switch Exclusive Edition) 34.99.

There are also no lives or a health system.Īt some points of the game a type of "boss fight" needs to be done through a musical jam with large creatures. When dropping down the game restarts right away. There are no enemies, but only some small obstacles such as gaps that need to be avoided. In the general platform levels Jason can (double) jump and play a cosmic guitar to interact with the environment and light it up. While trying to find his own voice, he is whisked away by a being called Lightman to several dimensions in space with psychedelic environments.Ī large part of the game consists of exploration, moving through the environment and talking to characters. The player controls the character Francis Vendetti, a folk musician, who struggles with the legacy of his famous uncle Jason Vendetti. To succeed in the company starts another swap exchange that puts Francis back in the face of an introspection that confirms the style of the game: the Artful Escape of the title is precisely this metaphorical, dreamlike journey into a world that is probably the Francis himself, or anyway, the projection of his artistic discomfort, which manifests itself in his help to bring him to the. The Artful Escape is a journey of musical self-discovery presented as a 2D side-scrolling platformer with very forgiving mechanics.
