Color Guardians

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
62

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
  1. PlayStation LifeStyle
    May 12, 2015
    85
    I don’t often play a game and immediately go through it again after finishing it, but I did that with Color Guardians. Thanks to its fun and bright graphics, truly difficult levels, and different scoring systems, I found myself playing each level again and again in an effort to get all three stars or get a high score for the leaderboards.
  2. Gamers' Temple
    Jul 5, 2015
    80
    Nice as a little bite-sized breather from bigger games, but don't expect anything more than just a momentary distraction.
  3. Game Rant
    May 13, 2015
    80
    Despite the not very exciting reward, the challenge of getting three star ratings on every level is certain to keep completionists returning to the game hour after hour.
  5. NZGamer
    Jun 3, 2015
    75
    Great if you’ve got spare controllers to break and you don’t mind turning red.
  6. PlayStation Universe
    Jun 1, 2015
    75
    With its vibrant visuals and easily accessible gameplay, Colour Guardians is the best kind of gaming palate cleanser. While certainly not a prospect for the long-term, Colour Guardians regardless entertains with deft aplomb when taken in short bursts.
  7. Digital Chumps
    May 12, 2015
    72
    Color Guardians is a simple game with a straightforward purpose - run and button-mash. It will certainly challenge gamers with fast gameplay and demand multi-tasking sharpness from its players, but doesn't offer a lot beyond those things.
  8. Atomix
    Jun 2, 2015
    70
    With an adequate presentation Color Guardians is a decent runner. It's not going to broke paradigms on the genre and maybe it turns a lot repetitive when you complete the first levels but has some elements that make it a fun experience.
  9. GameCrate
    May 18, 2015
    70
    While Color Guardians could've used more zest in its character personality – and a few more easygoing levels to keep rookie players in check – it's still a better game than expected, thanks to its interesting gameplay and crazy challenges. If you're a fan of running or rhythm, be sure to try on this Color.
  10. Push Square
    May 13, 2015
    70
    Color Guardians is a charming little title that will be appreciated by endless runner fans. The inconsistent difficulty is a problem, and its lack of variety means that it's best played in short bursts – but if you want something simple to brighten up your day, then this will do the job adequately.
  11. Hardcore Gamer
    May 12, 2015
    70
    Color Guardians blends a variety of fast-paced genres together nicely. It controls perfectly and every set of stages changes things up enough to use the core runner/platformer/rhythm game template and keep it interesting.
  12. Eurogamer Italy
    Aug 12, 2015
    60
    A colorful, painful game that we can only recommend to sadistic players.
  13. Multiplayer.it
    May 27, 2015
    60
    Color Guardians is a challenging but repetitive running game for all those who want to experience this kind of game on console.
  14. XGN
    Jun 1, 2015
    50
    Color Guardians is a colorful game. It has some unique mechanics which are quite good, but it demands too much from you. You have to remember the levels so well it's not fun to play anymore.
  15. TheSixthAxis
    May 20, 2015
    50
    Ultimately Color Guardians is a bright, cutesy, challenging runner with some good ideas that falls through when it comes to keeping it interesting. Restarting from checkpoints over and over only getting a little bit closer to the end each time quickly grows repetitive, draining any drive there might have been to continue playing.
  16. Destructoid
    May 12, 2015
    40
    Play this if you like a challenge and have patience to get to the good stuff, but don't even bother finishing it.
  17. GameSpot
    May 13, 2015
    30
    All too often, though, the stages are designed in such a way that you're tricked into failing, and any technical issues stand out more than they might elsewhere because precise timing and concentration are so vital to success.

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6.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 59 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 59
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 59
  3. Negative: 15 out of 59
  1. emongev
    May 14, 2015
    9
    So this game has that Nintendo Hard quality I enjoy, its cutesy graphics that make me happy balanced with difficulty which makes me mad, in aSo this game has that Nintendo Hard quality I enjoy, its cutesy graphics that make me happy balanced with difficulty which makes me mad, in a good way. Kinda like how Super Meat Boy manages to keep me into the game with fast respawns and no number of lives, so i can kinda enjoy the game without stressing out over deaths. Also perfectionists aware, you will get addicted to this :P… Full Review »
  2. SuperkenGaming
    May 12, 2015
    8
    Color Guardians
    Addictive for all the wrong reasons.
    All of the color has been depleted from your world, and it’s up to you as the color    Color Guardians
    Addictive for all the wrong reasons.
    All of the color has been depleted from your world, and it’s up to you as the color guardians to get it back.
    Color guardians consist of 5 stages with 10 levels each plus bonus levels that all get progressively harder.
    The difficulty of this game is insane and ultimately it’s down fall.
    Not so much that it is too hard, but that it marginally misses the target it set out to hit.
    Color Guardians is Sonic the hedgehog on crack.
    Much like sonic or guitar hero, color guardians is all about reaction, switching lanes and colors to match obstacles and orbs,
    The problem with color guardians though is that it’s too fast.
    I appreciate what the developers tried to do with this game, but it’s practically impossible to react to.
    Im not sure if this was done on purpose to prolong game play, but Color Guardians almost counts on you to mess up turning this from what initially is a game about reaction and timing to a game all about muscle memory.
    Not only that, but occasionally the game will change up the rules mid play through, now to switch lanes you have to change color rather than go up and down like you have been through the entirety of the game, press buttons repeatedly to get pass this part but guess what as soon as you get through it, were going to throw another section at you that if youre still doing that will fling you to your death.
    You have to get from checkpoint to checkpoint with complete perfection, and the only way to do this is to remember where you messed up.
    I found that this is how I ultimately made it through the 2nd half of the game,
    Repetition rather than reaction which ultimately lessens the enjoyment.
    All of this could’ve been avoided with obstacles being more spaced out, or a life system.
    The levels are greatly designed and add much variety.
    For doing the same thing over and over, it never feels like such.
    Every level may look similar, but they all play differently.
    After you’ve completed the 10 levels in the world you have to face the worlds boss to unlock the next world, the boss is pretty much the same every time but throwing in new obstacles in the first half.
    Once the boss is defeated tokis are released and hidden in all 10 levels
    After you go back and find all 10 in each world, they unlock 3 bonus levels per map.
    You can also of course go back to chase high scores, and obtain stars and diamond stars on each level to unlock bonus content such as concept art
    There is so much challenge and fun to be had with Color Guardians
    It’s just a shame that success in this game is more based on memory than reaction.
    For what it is
    Reaction based runner: 7.5/10
    Overall: 7.5/10    … Full Review »
  3. revistayumecr
    May 12, 2015
    8
    Una experiencia llena de color.

    Como sabemos Costa Rica está comenzando a hacerse popular entre el mundo de los videojuegos, si recordamos    Una experiencia llena de color.

    Como sabemos Costa Rica está comenzando a hacerse popular entre el mundo de los videojuegos, si recordamos el gran éxito que obtuvo Fenix Rage de la compañía Green Lava Studios, pues Fair Play Labs no se queda atrás regresando con Color Guardians, un juego plataformero de acción disponible para PC, PlayStation 4 y PlayStation Vita.

    La primera vez que arranqué con Color Guardians, me llamó muchísimo la atención desde la música, los personajes y tanto color que parecía el juego perfecto para un niño pequeño o incluso el juego perfecto para alguien que tuvo un mal día. Después de jugarlo por un rato me di cuenta que estaba equivocada ya que debajo de toda su lindura se esconde un juego brutalmente difícil y desafiante.

    Acá veremos siete etapas diferentes y cada etapa tiene 11 niveles. En su modo de juego nos desplazaremos lateralmente. Nuestros protagonistas serán Rod, Lia y Grock, cada uno de los cuales sólo son estéticamente diferentes donde deberás correr a través de sus mundos para restaurar el color robado recogiendo pequeños orbes de colores a medida que avanzas. Para ser más específica te encontrarás con tres carriles donde deberás presionar las flechas arriba y abajo para cambiar entre ellos mientras evitas obstáculos y recoges los orbes. Para poder tomar los orbes deberás cambiar el color de tu personaje y así igualar el color de las esferas (rojo, azul y amarillo) de lo contrario no se pueden recoger. Debo mencionar que el juego se basa por puntuación y entre más orbes obtengas mejor será tu puntuación.

    Hasta acá suena simple como sus primeros niveles pero conforme avanzas el reto comienza a ponerse un tanto intenso, mientras que yo era capaz de conseguir fácilmente puntajes altos y recoger todas las esferas en los primeros niveles me di cuenta que lo que hace esto aún más difícil es que debes obtener todas las esferas haciendo que coincida el color de tu personaje pero si a ello le sumamos que el número de los obstáculos se agranda más la rapidez, bueno deberás de llenarte de paciencia. Por suerte, si el jugador muere tenemos una serie de puntos de control establecidos en cada nivel, colocados estratégicamente antes o después de las zonas difíciles, pero va a disminuir ligeramente la puntuación general del jugador. Pero no es de preocuparse ya que para los jugadores experimentados esto no es un problema, pero para los jugadores casuales o para los niños dudo que les siga agradando.

    Sin embargo, las batallas con el jefe son realmente divertidas, te ponen en gran desafío, en comparación con los niveles normales que estos son en realidad un poco fácil y aunque es casi imposible obtener todos los orbes y estrellas tal vez te pueda proporciona un buen incentivo para volver a iniciar todos los niveles tratando de obtener lo que te hizo falta.

    De no ser por su diseño, sus diferentes sistemas de puntuación, gráficos brillantes y su gran paleta de colores, los niveles verdaderamente difíciles, me dio motivo para encontrarme jugando y seguir dando un esfuerzo para conseguir las tres estrellas o conseguir una alta puntuación. Mientras que el desplazamiento lateral podría utilizar más tutoriales y más historia que ofrezca lo desafiante y lo divertido del juego.    … Full Review »
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