Color Guardians is an indie, released 12 May 2015 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Color Guardians is
Color Guardians was released in 2015. It was published by Niffler Ltd.. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shantae is a 2002 platform video game developed by WayForward and originally published by Capcom for the Game Boy Color. The video game follows the adventures of the titular half-genie Shantae as she travels across Sequin Land to thwart the domination plans of the evil lady pirate Risky Boots. During her quest, she learns various dances and acquires items which make her progressively stronger as well as unlocking new abilities and locations, culminating in a final showdown with Risky at her hideout.
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Color Guardians holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and Intel Core HD Graphics 4000, NVIDIA 8800 GT, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Color Guardians launched on 12 May 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Kerbal Space Program, Splatoon and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Kerbal Space Program, Splatoon, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Color Guardians yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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