Monday, August 29, 2016

Hue for Xbox One review: Color in the world

How can people say video games cause violence when games like Hue exist?

Hue is a puzzle platformer developed by Fiddlesticks and published by ID@Xbox. It's colorful, yet sorrowful, and so sweet it'll leave you with a content glow for a week.

You control the character Hue, who lives in a greyscale world. His life is changed by the discovery of color. His mother was a researcher who developed a ring to help her see colors too, but she was betrayed by her assistant. Now she is just a formless shade, unable to interact with the world. Hue's mission is to find her.

Hue can use his powers of color-changing to interact with the world and solve puzzles by manipulating colors. The beautiful hand-drawn line art is still striking even without color or shade and serves delicious detail to each level.

From the get-go, even with one color to use, you can see obstacles of other colors you don't have yet. You may be back-tracking to and fro to open and unlock new areas as you discover new ones, but there is a level select option to take you to the closest level start point. Some of the paths end up looping back on themselves anyway, but the level select menu also shows you how many mysterious beakers there are to collect on those levels.



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