Every now and then you duet with another character, following on-screen prompts, but there’s no pressure to time your button presses against some computational conductor you can play according to rhythm and taste.
As you bound around and explore, you are free to break into a soaring solo or pinched harmonic at any moment with the tap of an X button.
You guide Francis, who runs like a stop-motion Super Mario puppet, across Martian landscapes – snowy vistas filled with glowing mushrooms, Narnia street lamps, pinwheeling star systems. But then The Artful Escape is not the product of a typical video game-maker, having been conceived and refined by Johnny Galvatron, frontman of Aussie rock band the Galvatrons.
This is true space opera territory – Ziggy-era Bowie meets The Hitchhik er’s Guide to the Galaxy – and far from typical video game subject matter.
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