Ever since Simogo and Annapurna Interactive brought us Sayonara Wild Hearts, I’ve been thinking about how awesome it is when a game fuses so heavily with its soundtrack. We tend to focus on how games as a medium can be on par with stuff like movies in terms of telling these deep and meaningful stories, but how about as a medium for making amazing interactive music albums" That’s basically what Sayonara Wild Hearts did, and while I’m not sure it’s quite to that extreme here, another Annapurna-published title seems to be focusing heavily on its musical side. It’s called The Artful Escape from developer Beethoven & Dinosaur, and we first heard about it way back in the summer of 2017 during E3. Here’s that original trailer again because it’s very likely you haven’t seen it, and it’s mega-awesome.
I am FEELING those tunes. I dig classic rock and even some of the more psychedelic stuff from that era, and that tune in that trailer sounds like Joe Satriana making his own binaural beats meditation album. In reality, The Artful Escape is the brainchild of Johnny Galvatron, frontman for the Australian rock band The Galvatrons. In it you play as Francis Vendetti who is the nephew of legendary folk musician Johnson Vendetti. On the eve of Francis’s first ever show, he goes on a “psychedelic, multidimensional journey" to discover his own stage persona and set himself apart from his famous Uncle. You c...