Each signpost is read aloud by a hilarious Schwartzman, and throughout the tour, there are moments where you're prompted to 'hold x to jam with the environment'.

Francis makes his way through a museum dedicated to Lightman, with each display representing a key moment in the groovy dude's career. The Artful Escape preview includes one trippy level that centers around Carl Weathers' character, Lightman, who feels like a Prince/Hendrix crossover. The path to finding Francis' rockstar persona takes you through a journey normally reserved for consciousness-expanding trips: multiple cosmic realms, an '80s mall on a boat in the middle of an intergalactic desert, and a planet with sea creatures spewing fountains of water in time with the music.

This man is far more sci-fi arena rock, the kind of musician you'd expect to see in a deep-cut leotard. However, it's quickly established that Francis' music is antithetical to the kind of strummy folk he's expected to play. The Artful Escape introduces Francis as an incredibly talented but nervous new artist – nervous because everyone expects him to be a folk musician and follow in his uncle's footsteps.

'So I made it as far away and as fantasy as I could.' 'I didn't want to make a rockstar in Australia because it made me feel a bit sick in my stomach, 'cuz of my own experiences,' explains Galvatron. The entire cosmic journey towards self-discovery kicks off just before Francis is set to perform his first show (where he's billed as the nephew of folk icon Johnson Vendetti) in the fictional town of Calypso, Colorado. The World), Lena Headey (Game of Thrones), Mark Strong (Kingsman), and the iconic Carl Weathers (Predator). The cast includes Jason Schwartzman (Scott Pilgrim Vs. That fantasy includes surreal space entities bobbing along to rad guitar riffs, an extraterrestrial rock museum set in a glittering, snow-capped forest, and a star-studded cast of voice actors that were brought in late in development.

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