The Artful Escape review – Bowie meets Hitchhiker’s in gratifying teenage space opera

The Artful Escape review – Bowie meets Hitchhiker’s in gratifying teenage space opera

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https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/oct/02/the-artful-escape-review-beethoven-dinosaur-annapurna-johnny-galvatron

You play a young guitarist exploring your prog-rock ambitions to the full in this richly enjoyable psychedelic journey

Seventeen-year-old guitar prodigy Francis Vendetti lives with his mother in a small Colorado town that is still in thrall to its most famous export: Francis’s late uncle, a platinum-selling folk singer. Francis feels inevitable pressure to continue the family trade, and, in preparation for his highly anticipated first public performance in town, writes a suite of Dylan-esque tracks about toil and loss. Except the act is an affectation: Francis is, at heart and by temperament, a prog-rock wailer who dreams of playing high-gain, euphoric guitar solos over the swell of a supportive orchestra. When he’s visited by a sympathetic alien being who observes: “You wear folk like a cheap suit”, Francis swaps his skinny Levi’s for an LED-encrusted catsuit and sets off across the Milky Way to shred for an audience of intergalactic concertgoers.