RYO Review
Price: $0.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Device Reviewed On: iPad Air
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Red and yellow make orange, red and blue make purple, and yellow and blue make green. Those elementary school art class maxims form the heart of RYO’s colorful puzzles. From there, they develop rich and full shades, tints, and tones, but never become much more complex than finger paintings.
Everything clever about the game basically stems from this blending ability. It forces players to be mindful of what order and direction they connect the dots to create the right paths for more intersections. The game uses pigment-based color mixing, as opposed to light-based. Recognizing what colors make up the endless gradient permutations becomes increasingly challenging as the colors get stranger and more interchangeably beige. But RYO never becomes a particularly challenging game. In fact, it might have benefitted from a “hardcore” mode that perhaps tasked players with completing puzzles flawlessly instead of scraping by on trial-and-error.
However, anyone looking to stretch those old color wheel muscles should still give RYO a look.
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