It’s a super refreshing message and the game handles its execution wonderfully. However, once the segment ended, it’s less about punishment and more about finding out who Francis wants to become than becoming what the people around him say he should become.
The stage persona was particularly interesting as when it’s introduced, it feels like the game is trying to get players to lie to lead them to punishment. While the narrative is fairly linear, there are parts in the game where players are allowed to express themselves by evolving Francis throughout his journey such as giving him a stage persona or customizing his look. Needless to say, things get real weird, real fast. Francis is given some new threads, a holographic electric guitar, and is now being forced to play support for an epic-level guitarist named Lightman. After investigating, he meets the literally out-of-this-world creature Zomm who whisks him away on an intergalactic jam session. The day before the festival, after being suitably beaten down and discouraged by the other townsfolk, Francis tries to get some sleep but is awoken by an odd sound outside.
It’s clear that Francis would rather play some sick space opera rock jams but is being forced to instead cover his uncle’s folk songs at the upcoming festival in his honor. As the story opens, Francis finds himself unable to shake a nagging feeling as he struggles to strum a few bars of folk music. Francis seems destined to live in the rather large shadow of his uncle Johnson Vendetti who has become a folk music legend of sorts. The Artful Escape puts players into the shoes of a young guitar player named Francis Vendetti.
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