I struggled to find a way to talk about Chicory: A Colourful Tale without just rehashing what I said about Wishes Unlimited's previous game, Wandersong, versus talking about its unique elements, which is an issue as would be a massive disservice to Chicory.

I hold them both close to my heart and are in my mind both every creative (in ways different and the same!) in terms of storytelling and mechanics, but they have touched my heart for many of the same reasons, so I will try to do the best of both in this review.

Chicory is a very charming game with a heavy focus on its story and dialogue, it is full of extremely charming characters and it asks you this: what if the world suddenly lost all colour and the hero that you admire greatly, who is responsible for the colouring the world seemingly also gave up their post? and not just that, you decide to take that post up because it's a dream come true to you, and you want to be able to be of help? But it turns out there is a very understandable reason why the previous hero gave up their post?

Chicory has one of most interesting and creative main mechanics of any game ever! As hinted at earlier YOU must manually paint in and thus give colour to every part of the world, from the environments to the collectibles to the characters themselves! Chicory also left an everlasting impression on me with how it showed and handles artists dealing with depression and self-hate.

What's the point of all this really? I don't know, but if you played and really liked Chicory, I think you would really like Wandersong and likewise if you played and really liked Wandersong I think you would like Chicory.