Chicory, A Colorful Tale is a very, very deep game. It's also a highly successful game, winning two awards in 2022 while being nominated for a boatload more of awards in 2021 and 2022. A game that is available on pretty much every platform, Chicory sold well for an indie game. However, it's impact is far more huge than copies sold. The depth of what this game is about is what will be it's lasting impact going forward. What is the main thing this game does well? Let's find out below!
Positives:
1. It's Impact on Mental Health: This game is deep on mental health. From anxiety, depression, needing to be perfect and live up to expectations set upon by others not named you, and just overworking overall. Everything is enveloped here but it is done so magnificently for every part of it. It's a game that will resonate for its impact on mental health and it forces a need to talk about it. This was a major plus.
2. The Ability to be Your Own World: You can paint the world the way you want, you have the ability to play the game the way you want to in terms of how you paint it and you go from there. It's pretty neat to do and I thought this was a major plus overall.
3. Chicory: A perfect protagonist overall. Chicory is written well for everyone to understand, whether you are an adult, or a kid to play to play this game, or a teenager it just is brilliant how they wrote Chicory. This is a good game written for a protagonist having the carefree attitude to save everyone and knows why.
4. Length of Game: I was actually going to showcase this as a negative but then I thought about this for a while and actually it is a positive. Yes it's short, however it's a good thing. The fact this game can be beat in a short length is a good thing because it means it has a lot to it but also it is a game that features a lot of depth.
5. Depth of Game: A lot of this game deals with depth and it has a significant amount of it at every level. That's one thing this game does exceptionally well. Every level does so well with what you have to do. Overall this is a great positive.
Negative:
1. Ease of game: Honestly this might be the only negative of this game. I feel this game was pretty easy overall which makes it a negative. There wasn't too much dealing with a difficulty throughout. However it isn't obviously a dealbreaker.
As an aside, I figured out you can get soft locked on the opening boss fight, which is interesting. But nonetheless, it was neat to find that trick/tip I guess.
Reaction/Rating:
Chicory is a fantastic game that tells a tale that is significant in real life overall. It's depth into the mental health spectrum and the impact on that is something that cannot ever be ignored. The scope of the game is deep, it's ability to have a lot packed into a short game is something big. I appreciate how big this game can be on the aspects of mental health but also the depth of the game and of Chicory as a protagonist. Overall rating of this game is a 9.5 out of 10.
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