It’s not a new fad anymore, but I have seen the rise of coloring books, which claim to have a relaxing effect. Not sure how well it works in practice, but it’s still popular enough that I see coloring books for adults everywhere. Mandalas, scenes of wilderness, animals, ones for all kinds of fandoms… Surely there’s a way to transpose this to a video game?
Oh, that's a lot of squares to paint. |
Seeing the pic get made over time, it is quite nice. |
A later update to the game added an auto-fill feature, and I'll admit they had a fun idea for it. Meet Joe. He’s the laziest lazybutt to have ever lazybutted into this picture-coloring company. He’s a literal sloth.
"Here's how long I'll take to finish the current color. Have you ever heard the joke about the three- humped camel?" |
At least get yourself a chair, lazybutt!
That said, he may be personified by a sloth, he still works faster than any human would. He won’t paint over finished squares by accident, and he doesn’t have that pesky human flaw of having to search for the squares that haven’t been painted yet. It’s pretty good when you’ve done quite a bit on a picture and don’t feel like finishing it yourself. It's also very useful if you've got only two or three squares left for one particular color, and can't find them in the goddarned huge pictures. You can have Joe paint a single color or all colors at once, and either on an area of the picture or on the entire image.
Also, Joe works the colors in order, left to right, top to bottom. Totally not like a robot. |
I mean, I can’t be mad at Joe, he’s my Employee of the Month. Now if only he wrote these reviews in my place.
That's a lot of DLCs. |
-While I understand the need for DLCs since the base game is free, said base game is still fairly short with only 15 images;
-There aren’t any explanations regarding the options, so I couldn’t figure out what some of these options were for. Had I known, I wouldn’t have struggled so much with the color squares getting erased;
-As I said earlier, the auto-fill is a good idea, but a few improvements could still be made to it.
-Every single image is tied to an acievement for completion, so if you're an achievement hunter like me, you'd have to buy every DLC pack.
-Every single image is tied to an acievement for completion, so if you're an achievement hunter like me, you'd have to buy every DLC pack.
-The game does come with a few tracks of music, which it’ll start playing instantly unless you disable that option. I personally prefer to have my own music while coloring.
But overall, I enjoy this one just fine. The pieces of pixel art are detailed and impressive, and they’re great to look at when completed. You don’t feel like paying? You have 15 pictures, a great way to try out the game and see if you like it. And if you do like it, the DLCs are there for you.
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