Swan Sketch – The UNFINISHED Swan)

Overview of the most creative video game in the artistic genre of fairy tales. There is also a video version with a full -fledged installation.

There are such games that are inextricably linked in all their attributes. Concepts and plot are woven into game mechanics. The world and its mood are supplemented through sound accompaniment. And the characters are not just logically exist inside the game, a feeling is created, they say they themselves created this world. And in this case it will simply be a destructive mistake to disassemble the game on the solar parts for the sake of evaluating or even criticism. Therefore, I will try to look as wider as possible and whole on the swan sketch. He is the unfinished Swan.

It should be noted right away that this is a fairy tale. She looks like a fairy tale, she is told by a narrator as a fairy tale. And here the story begins with the fact that the “drawn swan” disappears from the picture on one random day, leaves only its swan traces on the floor, which lead to a small door that before that does not exist in the room of the young main character. This is definitely a fairy tale.

Actually the main character is the kid Monroe, whose picture is the only remembrance of the dead mother. Quite a strong motivation to follow the traces of the swan and look for it. The mother herself left behind 300 paintings. True, they were all not finished, because “she always started things better than ending them”.

From this, by the way, Monroe had https://www.popularslotgames.co.uk/ already played out some kind of complex and he felt himself as not completed. And then his new foster parents allowed to take only one picture. He chose his beloved mother – “incomplete swan”.

Actually, after the boy crawls into a new, small door begins gameplay.

Yes, this is an absolutely white room. I personally have a gameplay began with wiping the screen. And how to grope the button that produces the shell, we find out that the main and only “weapon” is not some pistols, but a brush. Which we bullets black drops to paint the space. In general, an unusual concept and in the first it is even interesting to mark simple square walls, but the swan sketch will constantly change the situation, because each drop of ink can find something new.

By the way, the only pointer that we go in the right direction are the traces of the swan. In general, the game is quite linear and for the whole game it is unlikely that you can at least once get lost. But traces completely mask the effect that these linear designs of levels lead us and create a clear illusion, they say that it leads us to the swan to an unknown point. About half the game unknown.

In general, the game has four chapters. In each of which different gameplay deizes. Now, if in the first it was necessary to paint the space, so that it simply navigated in it, then in the next chapter it will already be necessary to interact with this space. And since black gouache does not fit for this, the brush is now bullets with drops of water. There will be trips inside the surreal kingdom. Which the hell is beautiful.

I spent extra time here just staring at the design. For example, the game has balloons that gather optically and are currency for some cool upgrades. When you knock down the ball, it slowly flies up and I was looking for the best angles for beautiful footage.

And even when there were enough of them, I continued to slowly drive the camera, simply because it is, damn it, beautifully, I love minimalism. By the way, often people in reviews, comments and in the game genre take the game as a whole for a puzzle or puzzle.

But she is only a little. The game is essentially simple because it was developed for all ages. But the fact that this is an exploration here to the point. The most difficult thing in the swan sketch is just the same search for balls, but this is not even the main mechanic.As a result, this fairy tale for all ages received a ten -plus rating, which, as for me, is a lot. Here, they say, sad notes and thoughts about death. It feels like experts who set these grades of classic fairy tales did not read. For example, Hans Christian Andersen and his Snow Queen. “It is gold, it is gold!’They Cried, and Darting Forward, Seided the Horses, and Killed The Postilions, The Coachman, and Footman. They then Dragged Little Gerda Out of the Cariage.”I understand that now we live in other times, but still it is too subjective. Yes, in the CIS in a large part, it makes no difference to ratings, but in the West this eventually selects some kind of piece of audience from the swan sketch.

But I am not fanly related to the game, I have a sufficient number of negative notes about things made incorrectly. Especially many of them in the third chapter. There is even more positive, however, unspeakable about the game, but I just do not want to spoil this very exploration to those who decide to play it, and I sincerely recommend it. Yes, this makes my review “incomplete” or maybe even a “sketch”, but you know, sometimes things think.

Thank you for reading. I hope for your assessment. Would be grateful to evaluate another video version.