Don't be Grey.. or better, "dontbegrey".. is a very very nice minimalistic platformer, designed in an original way and greatly playable both with keyboard controls and with a XBOX controller - I've always been using a new XBOX controller, don't ask me its name but it's the one which goes both wired and bluetooth xD
Well, the game is really minimalistic, it has an awesome in-game-built interface and it allows you to customize lots of things.
But the main game focuses on a smart, puzzle-like platforming system: you'll be playing as a cube, and you will be facing lots of different color layers. You'll have a button to jump, and another one (X and A in my controller) will be used, held, to change your color-bypass-skill.
What I'm talking about?
Let me explain: by holding the proper key down, your square will be able to go through another color. The game is, in fact, all made up by different layers of color: while the grey color will always kill you and the black one will represent the walls and the static base, all the other colors (there's 8 of them!) will be permeable - let's say, if you're in a pink environment, the green tiles will look like walls to you. By holding the X key, you'll be able to go through it (double jump will be something definitely to master, the game's really challenging!) and thus you'll push your old, pink tile back.
The pink tile will become the wall like all the other colors that will enter the environment while you go on through the 40 levels, and the tile color you're in will become the only one you'll be able to navigate through.
It sounds quite confusing, but the mechanics are simple - the difficulty is made up by the fact that there will be lots of different layers, lots of colors.. and you'll have to constantly check where to jump and to make your next safe spot, keeping into account that the grey tiles will always kill you.
Hence the title, don't be gray.. :P
Well, it's somehow more like a puzzle rather than a platformer and as I said, the game will get hard quite soon. It's also worth mentioning that the game offers lots of nice plain white quotes in the lower part of the screen, as long as you keep on playing - the music compartment on the other side isn't something remarkable, but it's ok for such a game.
There's also a level editor option, although I've never liked too much to mess around.. but if you're into these things, you'll be able to make your own levels too :)
I've read somewhere that this game had problems with revoked keys, but I've never had such an issue so I won't discuss it here.
For its 2€/$ price, to me it's definitely recommended. If you like puzzle platformers with some twists and if you want to measure yourself with a new challenge, this game's for you. I'm not saying that this tile/color swapping is something extraordinarily new, but here it's all well-realized and funny to play.
On the other side, you're forced to accept the complete minimalistic approach of the whole game - cubes, layers of colors and little else will accompany you through this journey.
Give this one a try, to me it's been a nice casual surprise!
