passpartout the starving artist gameplay

What seemed really odd is that once you are getting a lot of money, you can’t buy the tools, you just get them out of the blue. The paintings that the game developers show off look really good in comparison to my strawberry which looks like a deformed tomato. In the core though, it looks very much like the basic MS Paint, which allow the untalented of us to do 1st grade stickman sketches, but are enough for someone with some talent to get some really cute looking drawings done. You start with the regular brush, get a spray can, receive a fountain pen and more tools which allow you to make your art seem fancier than it is. You are granted with a bunch of colors, different tools, and their adjustable size. The only things that seem to change are the location in which you are painting, which changes from one act to another, and the different tools that you are getting over the course of time. The feeling of progression is there, but lacking, in a way.

This allowed me to move from my shady alley to a little store, and all I did is make some colored squares and link them together, but as long as he said that it looked fantastic I am not complaining. When you are doing consistent work for a bit of time, a critic will come by and make a press release about you. Thus, it’s not that easy to satisfy Passpartout’s baguette addiction, and if you are not good enough or fast enough you will go broke. Some people who have a pink Mohawk enjoy paintings with more “passion”, whatever that is, while this old man with a coffee seems to enjoy stuff that, from my experience, classify as scenery. You are not getting any prompts on what someone might like or not, you have to guess that on your own by judging their fashion taste and by what they say when they critique your work. This specific audience has their own specific likes and dislikes. Everyone who is going around your paintings, which on a side note that’s all they do, belong to a certain audience like hipsters. The better your paintings, the more they’re going to sell for, but thankfully, or sadly, it isn’t so simple.

You will have to get as creative as you can be and start showing that to the world by, obviously, making paintings and selling them. Your goal, so to say, it’s to get noticed and raise in the art world while also surviving on a weekly basis. The only things you can interact with is the easel, where you will start drawing your “trés magnifique” paintings, the cash register where you can see the weekly payments and how much Passpartout spends on baguettes, wine, and rent, and the paintings that you already done in order to throw them in the bin or rename them. Here you see his low quality living conditions and his easel, and a couple of tables outside of the garage on which you are going to present your creations to the world, followed by a single cash register at the edge of a table. Right from the beginning of the game, you are thrown into this back alley somewhere in Paris, where Passpartout lives and makes his living out of a garage. When I say help, I mean you are doing all the work and when I say “beautiful”, the art you are doing is as good as your talent. The concept is that you help Passpartout, a wannabe painter, in making “beautiful” art pieces.

When I first saw the game I was pleasantly surprised, because this is such a neat and interesting idea for an indie game. Passpartout: The Starving Artist is a fun little indie game which released on 6th of June 2017.

Passpartout the starving artist gameplay