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Gone were the flatter, cut out paper like characters and in stepped more rounded, fuller 3D ones that remained in a 2D plane. While the characters still fluidly animated like marionette puppets, the models and other assets themselves received a bump up in quality. Another short trailer that gave us two things, firstly was the year the game is set – 1972, but it also showed us a noticeable upgrade to the already gorgeous visuals. It wouldn’t be until X019 that we’d see The Artful Escape again.

The music blended beautifully with the gameplay and the entire package was shaping up to be a truly unique gaming experience, with emphasis on the word experience. An eclectic mix of platforming with a dash of snowboarding and a jam session style “boss battle” (for want of a better term) thrown in. There was also an extended gameplay demo which gave us a deeper look at what we had seen in the trailer. But the beauty of that trailer was that it managed to give away little of what the game actually was, while leaving you wanting to know so much more.

Who could forget that E3 2017 trailer? The striking visual style that combined marionette puppetry with a psychedelic 60s rock infusion that you couldn’t help but be captured by.

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