{"id":9908,"date":"2018-01-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/chromagun_is_coming_to_switch_and_its_a_portal_to_colour-changing_puzzle_action"},"modified":"2018-01-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:00:00","slug":"chromagun-is-coming-to-switch-and-its-a-portal-to-colour-changing-puzzle-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/09\/chromagun-is-coming-to-switch-and-its-a-portal-to-colour-changing-puzzle-action\/","title":{"rendered":"ChromaGun Is Coming To Switch And It&#8217;s A Portal To Colour-Changing Puzzle Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news7.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/chromagun_is_coming_to_switch_and_its_a_portal_to_colour-changing_puzzle_action\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/chromagun_is_coming_to_switch_and_its_a_portal_to_colour-changing_puzzle_action\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news7.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Okay, it&#8217;s not hard to work out which game series serves an inspiration for the first-person puzzling of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/chromagun\">ChromaGun<\/a><\/strong>, but Pixel Maniacs&#8217; indie hit looks to be more than another Portal wannabe. The big central mechanic is your titular weapon, which can fire bursts of red, blue and yellow paint. It&#8217;s all about using your artistic ammunition to solve environmental puzzles in a series of test lab chambers, while a disembodied voice narrates (and occasionally derides)\u00a0your progress.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s a <em>very<\/em> familiar concept, but being able to mix those primary colours into more shades adds even more depth to conundrum solving, as does using your paint-splurging peashooter to control the WorkerDroids that populate many of the test chambers. It&#8217;s a feedback loop that looks like a perfect fit for Switch, and it&#8217;s hitting European and North American eShops on 22nd January.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly a tad derivative, but it&#8217;s still an exciting new addition to Switch&#8217;s indie library. Will you be grabbing your ChromaGun in a few weeks time? Drop us a comment or two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, it&#8217;s not hard to work out which game series serves an inspiration for the first-person puzzling of ChromaGun, but Pixel Maniacs&#8217; indie hit looks to be more than another Portal wannabe. The big central mechanic is your titular weapon, which can fire bursts of red, blue and yellow paint. It&#8217;s all about using your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}