'We wanted that guitar to be effortless,' Galvatron says. Galvatron says the gameplay mechanic goes a step further though. When Lightman starts to play guitar, you must repeat the melody back to him by following the progression on a color wheel, similar to the electronic memory game Simon.

When it comes time to jam with Lightman, the gameplay mechanics change. At the beginning of the game as Francis struggles to perfect his folk repertoire, prompts like 'hold X to play guitar' or 'to shred a sci-fi odyssey hold X' made Francis play the guitar. But before you can venture into the Cosmic Extraordinary, you have to show Lightman you can play.Īs someone with fond memories of Guitar Hero, I was eager to see how The Artful Escape would translate playing guitar to gameplay.

Lightman asks Francis to be his support act for an upcoming concert. 'We're going on a ride across the dilated pupils of the cosmos,' Lightman tells the dumbstruck Francis before they take to the stars. Annapurna InteractiveĮventually, Francis meets a character named Lightman - and his alien companion, Hypnagogic Zomm.

As a player, I felt the growing weight of the town's expectations for Francis to follow in his uncle's musical footsteps.

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