link's awakening + epic mickey = chicory

best indie game i have ever played

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the grief is never-ending but so is the love!

Undertale for people who like coloring books. This isn't a bad thing.

I bought this game out of a whim because I heard it was a cute Splatoon-inspired digital colouring book simulator, and I was NOT prepared for this game's narrative to absolutely demolish my emotions the way it did.

10/10 game. I would highly recommend.

I love chicory 🦭

I can see why this game got such glowing reviews - it's WONDERFUL!

Everything, and I mean literally EVERYTHING, is so charming. Reminded me of Okami with the brush mechanic, loved collecting stuff, meeting all the characters, the art style is super, attention to detail, the music, environment, all of it. This is what a game should be, you can really feel the love and care that went into this.

The way creativity is spoken about is so true, we may not know where we're going in life, but what we do know is we need to nurture and take care of ourselves and one another to truly flourish.

Amazing game, what a truly beautiful experience. I hope for a Chicory 2 someday just so I can jump back in. Thank you Devs, this was a moving experience <3

I highly recommend this game to anyone looking for a great story with a focus on heavy subjects like depression, anxiety, worthlessness, feeling betrayed by your loved ones, regret, aimlessness, among others.
If you do not feel you have the patience to color in over 100 screens to your liking you may not enjoy the lack of color in the world, and that's one unfortunate side effect of having such a unique mechanic as one of the main foundations of the game, but I found the ability to reshape and recolor anything to be incredibly gratifying as time went on. At first I was daunted by the number of screens, but I fell in love with breathing life back into this cute world and from that point on I was hungry for more.
The characters are (nearly all) well written, save for a few lines/conversations I felt could've gone a bit differently, but such is the case with pretty much all RPG games, so I can't fault Chicory for it either. With how much dialogue the game has, I'd say it did great.
The world feels alive, people move to places you've colored and react to it, they see decorations you place and interact with them, people all have different stories and preferences and lives that they're leading while you struggle with forces from beyond the physical world. There is no shortage of decor (and cute outfits for you!) to use either. One of my favorite bits of decor is the music players, you can play almost any soundtrack in the game on any screen (after you have heard it through normal gameplay)!
The brush styles and color lab help add that needed variety to keep the game from being just a bit stale towards the middle/end, as gaining the ability to paint with up to 12 colors at the same time and use special textures/shapes allows for a lot more interesting designs and intricate art to be made.
The art academy is a treat by itself, having a wide selection of beautiful pieces that actually have real learning value, at least for beginners to drawing. Lessons on value, shapes, etc, its entirely optional but they decided to put in the effort to making it special anyways, which is the design philosophy that the developers carried through pretty much the entire making of the game, it seems.
Overall, 10/10, but if you are impatient I would play something else.

I bought this a while back, completely forgot about the premise, and only started playing it because I was in a funk and wanted a cute game with fluffy animals in it to take my mind off things.

Well, um - that did NOT work out, but that’s entirely on me for judging a book by its cover. And in the end, I am SO GLAD I played this game, because even though the premise ended up hitting way too close to home, it was exactly what I needed.

This game reminded so much of the 2D action RPGs of my youth (particularly The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past). Your exploration is initially limited by the breadth of your abilities (like they were by your equipment in aforementioned Zelda), which expand over the course of the game and incentivize your return to old areas to explore what you couldn’t reach before. I thought I might be hampered somewhat by my lack of artistic skill, but that never became an issue. I was more held back by the limitations of the controller and my own lack of hand-eye coordination during the boss fights (oddly, the only combat in the game - yet I don’t feel the world is lacking in any way without stuff to beat up on the world map).

While I was rather nonplussed about the idea of colouring in every screen (the lack of colour choice and no undo button were off putting for me, but I can understand why said limitations were imposed - and I was much happier when I was finally able to make my own colour palette), I DID find the art school assignments oddly mesmerizing, and spent way more time on them than made any sense, despite the clunky controls and the clunkier “artist” at their helm. It was adorable to then see them populate blank canvases out in the world and be able to replay all the ridiculous lengths I went to to make them look as good as possible (uhhhh… needless to say, I empathized with the title character entirely too much).

I was never horrifically vexed by any of the traversal puzzles which make up the majority of this game, though I did make use of a walkthrough on occasion when a new mechanic was introduced that I didn’t intuitively understand (“Oh cool - a fire - what’s that for? Why can’t I move it?” etc.). I’m not one to stew forever on a puzzle that doesn’t interest me just so I can be right without “cheating”, but thankfully said “cheating” was a rare occurrence.

The character wardrobe and decor also really wasn’t for me (“Shrimp” (sorry Shrimp, I didn’t know I was saddling you with that awful name - who names one daughter Clementine and the other SHRIMP?!? - but I really like shrimp!) kept her custom shirt and ball cap on for almost the entire run, except when impressing Oats), but if you love acquiring in-game collectables and playing dress-up, boy, do I have good news for you - there’s a LOT you can customize and decorate and colour to your heart’s content.

Anyway, there was way more to Unhappy Bunny Land: The Game than I ever expected, and I was very pleasantly surprised. If you’re also a creative person feeling a little lost and down on yourself, I can’t recommend this enough. I’ll be thinking about this game for years to come. Worth every penny. 🌈🖌️

I initially played this game on Xbox with game pass, but it was something I enjoyed enough that I wanted to actually buy it on Steam when I transitioned to PC gaming. The 20 hours I have on this is probably more than most people would take to beat the game, but some of my time is just idly coloring.

Pros:
-Really enjoy the soundtrack. There's not a portion of the map that the music was bad, and they all felt appropriate for the scenery.
-The act of coloring everything in is weirdly satisfying, especially when you get to the point that you can make a custom paint palette and make the whole map look exactly how you want it.
-The puzzles are all able to be solved, but some of them can be a good mental challenge. There's a nice sense of accomplishment when you get through a screen that has you stumped.
-The storyline itself is sweet and evokes empathy for your character and other characters.
-There are trigger warnings and options and bypass the boss fights. I actually skipped through some of the fights--not because they were particularly difficult--but the graphics/color was a little hard on my eyes at times.
-Cute dialogue from the random NPCs.

Cons:
-While the controls playing on PC feel a lot better than they did when using an Xbox controller, I didn't love the art challenges because it was so difficult (for me anyway) to get something that genuinely looked good. The challenges didn't "grade" you so even if your picture was trash, you still progressed, but I was kind of embarrassed by most of my final products in the gallery. I see looking on the community page there are some nice pieces, so maybe this is just a me problem, but it left me just kind of pushing through the academy classes as fast as I could.