There are a shocking amount of collectibles to find in Chicory’s bespoke world, as it has managed to fill every little bit of space with some sort of prize or secret path. Once you acquire this ability, you can also paint large swaths of every game screen and just splish and splash through these areas at record speed. If there are obstacles blocking your way, you can paint through the obstacles and slide through them, if there are any tiny bits of space that you can see in between the obstacles. One of the most fun ones to use is an ability right out of Splatoon, that allows you to dive into the ground and slide through any area that you’ve already painted. As you defeat bosses in the game, you unlock abilities that help you progress in the world and reach areas you were unable to before. You’ll be solving puzzles - most are Metroidvania-esque traversal ones, as well as environmental puzzles that feel pulled right from The Witness - talking to different cute animal characters, talking again to cute animal characters until they run out of new things to say to you, hopping from screen to screen hoping to find new hidden paths and nooks and crannies filled with collectibles. While Chicory’s paintbrush mechanic is the core pull of the game, it offers a fairly traditional and robust action-adventure game as well. When you pull up the mini-map, you can see each one of your changes to the game’s world recreated faithfully in miniature, and it’s an awe-inspiring way to show the player all the effects they’ve had on the game’s rich world. These changes remain in the game permanently, though you can erase or change them at any time. You can change the brush colours and thickness, acquire different patterns that can be assigned to the D-pad, and fill in any of the game’s locales or characters at any time. With this brush, you can colour anything on the screen using the right analog stick and some combination of the DualSense’s triggers. In this 2D action-painting-RPG-adventure you play as the wielder, who has been bestowed a magical paintbrush by the previous wielder, Chicory.
It’s a game that wears its heart on its sleeve, and has as many clear-eyed emotional things that it wants to tell the player as it has brush-styles, colours, and characters. Chicory: A Colorful Tale is like if Mario Paint, Undertale, and Link’s Awakening came together to have a party.
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