"The gameplay is kind of like Smells Like Team Spirit… it's not about virtuosity, it's about being able to lead the narrative up to get to this crescendo, and then you're gonna lead the gameplay up to get to that crescendo. "I think the way the game is put together is that it tries to use every medium as a tool and lead you through the game as a song, like the verse, the pre-chorus, the chorus," Galvatron explains. This isn't a rhythm game, but more of a free-flowing jam sesh that lets you traverse the world how you'd like. The gameplay in The Artful Escape is simple: bring up an ethereal guitar with a button press, knee slide down a hill with another button, slam the guitar down onto a platform that shoots off fireworks with yet another button. "The gameplay is kind of like Smells Like Team Spirit… it's not about virtuosity It's at this point in the preview that I watch in awe as the world around Francis reacts in a myriad of psychedelic ways. Each signpost is read aloud by a hilarious Schwartzman, and throughout the tour, there are moments where you're prompted to 'hold x to jam with the environment'.
Francis makes his way through a museum dedicated to Lightman, with each display representing a key moment in the groovy dude's career. The Artful Escape preview includes one trippy level that centers around Carl Weathers' character, Lightman, who feels like a Prince/Hendrix crossover. The path to finding Francis' rockstar persona takes you through a journey normally reserved for consciousness-expanding trips: multiple cosmic realms, an '80s mall on a boat in the middle of an intergalactic desert, and a planet with sea creatures spewing fountains of water in time with the music. This man is far more sci-fi arena rock, the kind of musician you'd expect to see in a deep-cut leotard. However, it's quickly established that Francis' music is antithetical to the kind of strummy folk he's expected to play.
The Artful Escape introduces Francis as an incredibly talented but nervous new artist – nervous because everyone expects him to be a folk musician and follow in his uncle's footsteps. "So I made it as far away and as fantasy as I could." "I didn't want to make a rockstar in Australia because it made me feel a bit sick in my stomach, 'cuz of my own experiences," explains Galvatron.
The entire cosmic journey towards self-discovery kicks off just before Francis is set to perform his first show (where he's billed as the nephew of folk icon Johnson Vendetti) in the fictional town of Calypso, Colorado. The World), Lena Headey (Game of Thrones), Mark Strong (Kingsman), and the iconic Carl Weathers (Predator). The cast includes Jason Schwartzman (Scott Pilgrim Vs. That fantasy includes surreal space entities bobbing along to rad guitar riffs, an extraterrestrial rock museum set in a glittering, snow-capped forest, and a star-studded cast of voice actors that were brought in late in development.
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