Antoniós Color Madness - your daily brain trainer

This app probably has one of the most beautiful opening scenes for iTunes apps. It is very impressive. The visuals of this app are vibrant and beautiful. Game play has been another thing entirely. I dig the backstory. It's novel, concise, and provides at least some type of motivation for the character, (which isn't even necessary, but it's cool that they've built up the concept so well). I consider myself a moderately intelligent person, but after playing with this app for almost 2 weeks, I must confess that any concept of strategy continues to elude me. The game now boasts as many as 90 levels. Whoopee!!! I can't get past level 4. The first few levels are quite simple, and lets me wrap my mind around the essentials of game play. And then, suddenly it seems to get exponentially more difficult. Thus far, I have not been able to figure out what I'm doing wrong. And when I do get a bucket filled with the correct color, I don't even know what I've done right. I must be missing something very obvious, (married for over 9 years so it wouldn't be the first time) but I basically can't figure this thing out, and I haven't been able to find any information that proves helpful to that end. So, this seems to genuinely be one of those "it's not you...it's me" kind of things. I'm sure the game is awesome. But so far, I have only found it to be a very colorful and potentially entertaining demonstration of my own inadequacy. So, for now, I'm gonna have to take a hiatus from this game until I can build up enough confidence to confront my failings. The screenshots of higher levels really look exciting, and perhaps someday, in a not-to-distant future, I'll be able to reach a few more of them. As an aside, I was shocked by the size of this app. I suspect that a lot of it is devoted to some of the very complex animations used, but it does seem to suffer from code bloat. This app has continuously crashed on my 8GB 3G iPhone approximately every 2nd level restart. Luckily, the app remembers where you left off and resumes from the same level, which is nice. But it does seem to indicate a problem with stability. I have been using the app through the last two versions, and although the code has been trimmed down by almost 1/4, it continues to crash frequently. In short: Beautiful app. Neat original concept. Looks like it should be a simple core concept. Evidently it is not. Questionable stability. I'm too stupid to get past level 4. And that's all I'm going to write before this becomes less of a review, and more of a psychological self-analysis.

great colors and gameplay. really cool visual game with great difficulty as you progress. lots of fun to play.

This has the potential to be really addictive. It really makes you think and plan but it can be tiring to figure it all out. I did tire of it quickly.

The gameplay is very pretty and it's a good story the the game itself is just too hard and not really fun. It's just confusing and hard to play.

Like an d school arcade game with new school graphics. I think it's cool and gets progressively harder at the right speed.

Nice graphics and intuitive gameplay. The concept of the game is to fill buckets with the proper color of paint. The paint flows through pipes that crossover and has stops and other challenges that cause the paint to change color on the way to the buckets. The frustrating part is that you dont get alot of time to figure out the puzzle before the paint starts to spill. Once the paint spills, it takes a long time to reach the bottom creating a long lag in gameplay and making it very difficult to progress to higher levels Those are really the only drawbacks to an otherwise fun and entertaining game.

The graphics are great but the game itself isn't so hot.

This game is a little more work than I like in a game - I found myself very frustrated as it is hard to master. That said, a lot of people like that in a game - so don't knock it until you try it. The graphics are really top notch though. Well done.

This game has a lot of great elements: it's creative, has lovely graphics, and progresses nicely from level to level. The downside is that once you get past the first few levels it gets a bit more challenging than I'd like for a game of this category. The first couple of times going through was more figuring out how things worked. After that it was tricky but at least made sense. The tutorial/directions are lengthy and seem in depth however they managed to fail at effectively explaining how to play the game. The best way to learn is to just play it. I did the tutorial and read page after page and didn't get it until I just started playing. It has the potential to be addicting and fun but the amount of time it takes to get your skills up to progress just doesn't seem worth it to me however I'm sure others will feel very differently.

This is a good game and visually interesting. Kind of repetitive but I guess that's the nature of these games.

It was tough to get the hang of it initially, but try the tutorials and it gets easier. It is a little complicated at first, but you just need to leave yourself time to adjust. Once you are comfortable with it, it is a great deal of fun! The graphics are great and it is fun.

What a crazy concept for a game. In short, it's a puzzle game that uses color matching - with a ton of really challenging "mazes" that require quick thinking and puzzle solving.

Really interesting though and fun if you enjoy color matching - you do need a basic understanding of the color wheel. I highly recommend the tutorial - otherwise, you will be totally confused.

I have not progressed far enough to get some of the REALLY hard switchers and stoppers (seriously - thinking under the gun about complimentary colors?) Honestly, I can't imagine I would do well. But if you like a tough puzzle game, this is it. Also has really neat graphics and a fun background story that makes the game unique. This is not just another one of the endless, boring bejeweled ripoffs on iPhone.

Also - you cannot play this game with any distractions around you - it does require a lot of concentration.

...but not great either. It has a feeling to it of Burger Time, or Mario Bros, but gets a tad old within 5 minutes. I really don't like how long it takes the paint to move down to the bottom. VERY boring to sit there and wait for it. Probably worth the .99 for it to plink around with here and there.

I love this game. It's a little confusing to learn in the beginning, but once you get the hang of it it's very addicting.

Definite brain teaser! It's like a chess game by yourself! Good game that makes you consider future events to get to the next level. Good for any age level as the various game levels avail would be easy enough for a youngster and yet challenges puzzle freaks.