Riddle's Paint Quest

Riddle's Paint Quest
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Developer(s)	GreenStar Studios
Publisher(s)	GreenStar Studios Fantendo
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch
Genre(s)	Platforming Puzzle Adventure Action
Series	Riddle
Release Date(s)	WW: May 2018
Mode(s)	Single player Multiplayer
Age Rating(s)	ESRB E PEGI 7 CERO A

Riddle's Paint Quest is a sidescrolling game developed by GreenStar Studios and published by Fantendo only for the Nintendo Switch. It was first released as a demo at E3 in the 2017 and the full game in May 2018 worldwide. This is also the fourth game announced for the Riddle series.

This game is based about adventuring into different dimensions and quests that the protagonist, Riddle thus, must complete. The graphics are very different comparing to the 2 previous games: they use the same technical inferfaces and graphics such as the popular games like Rayman Legends or Origins with a mix of Paper Mario and Scribblenauts, emphasising three-dimensional environments.

Plot

The plot is displayed like reading a book (one of the games that gave inspiration like this is Kirby's Epic Yarn, however, there's no narration).

In his homeplace, Sky Hights, Riddle and his beloved friend Gush were chilling aside a tree. Gush was taking a brush to his hair as always and Riddle was drawing on his blank leaf. Later before sunset, they decided to go home but suddenly, they Riddle found as first a bush moving. They decided to look what it was. It's a small white colorless drop-like creature laying on the bush. Riddle was looking if she was ok but she suddenly woke up. Panicked and agitated he began to say harsh words to these two. Gush felt offended but Riddle comforts him and asks to the creature what happened. The creature first introduced him self awkwardly, saying her name was Poly. Further than that, she said he didn't remember everything what happened due to an hard clash after his heavy fall. Riddle and Gush decided to help her but they didn't knew how. Gush spoke soon that he had an idea and it was to go to the queen. They nodded, except Poly for her fluster.

They got to Queen Soulia, the ruler of Sky Hights and the god who protects Planet Alpha. The two asked for help to explain what happened to this small creature with temporary amnesia. She knew it and she explained everything about Poly in a nutshell. But that didn't quite as they planned...

Suddenly, a mysterious shadow was coming to fade in on the fields of Sky Heights. The clouds suddenly appeared surrounding the environment. Poly abnormaly shaky, she knew that was coming. A mysterious colorless creature appeared and began watching Riddle, Gush, Queen Soulia and mostly to Poly. While asked politly to give Poly to his hands in a French way, Riddle and Gush refused, while at the same time protecting the queen and the agited Poly. The mysterious creature was so presistent that he gave no mercy to the rest. He rise his wand and made magical gestures in the air, while suddenly, all the colors from all the living beings were began to vanish including all the creatures of Sky Heights. While the evil creature was about doing the same thing to Riddle and the rest, Poly protected them with his powers against dark magic coming from the villain. While doing so, Riddle went to the villain giving him a punch but he dodged like it was nothing. He desappeared and warned that he will come back for her. 

Everything was fine for the four, except for the rest of the planet, all the colors sucked up like all their life forms were empty, gray and dark.

After the recurring events, Queen Soulia told everything about her and Riddle and Gush understood, perhaps, Poly too but didn't remember quite well after all. However, she didn't recognize the villain either. Poly is a small creature created by a king from the other planet named Chromo. Chromo is the king who created the colors to the correct place for each location and universe. Poly was created to protect the environment of all the colors in the universe. She was colorful before but the queen said it wasn't normal that she had a blank color. She took that as a emergency and gave Riddle and Gush the quest to go to Planet Chromium, where the god lays there. The two, and Poly, nodded and went to the warp systems in the temple (these warp systems are also reappearing in Riddle's Epic Adventure!).

After this plot, there are four levels located in Sky Heights called Flavescent Forest, which Riddle and Gush must surpass, with help of Poly, leading through the tutorials including one boss level.

Characters

• Riddle: Playable character in single mode and multiplayer.
• Gush: Playable character only in multiplayer (2P).
• Poly: She will guide Riddle and Gush with the adve painting abilities. Player 3 and 4 are owned to be this character by pointing the Joy-Cons to the screen and paint the stage where needed.
• Artisego: The main villain of the game.
• Queen Soulia
• King Chromo
• Black Spider: The boss that appears at the last level in Flavescent Forest.
• The Ancient Leader
• Zaeim the Farao
• Ughah

Worlds & Levels

Planet Alpha

Sky Heights

Sky Heights has the smallest hub world in the game. In this area, you must rescue Heart from Black Spider and then you obtain the Fountain Key, which it allows you to go to planet Chromium.

Levels	Quests	(Mid-) Boss	Music
Flavescent Forest	2		X
Whisteria Waterfalls	2
Harvest Hills	3
Black Spider's Nest	1	Black Spider

Planet Chromium

Stain Scapes 

Stain Scapes has also the smallest hub in the game. No prism is there to get. Instead, you must go to the Prism Fountain by opening it with the Fountain Key. There you rescue King Chromo from the hands of Artisego.

Raindrop Ruins	3
Harlequain Halls	2		X
Twistle Towers	4
Fountain's Gate	1	Artisego (weak form)
Fountain's Gate (after battle)	10		X

Planet Earth

In this planet, there are in total eight areas which the Color Prisms are hidden in paintings made from the past, including various artists to be rescued. These paintings are located in museums on every country in the world. Museums are like hub worlds where you can explore more around the museum, see other famous paintings, meeting new people, etc. There also side-missions to be played after you cleared all the levels in each museum. Once you enter the museum, you meet the owner of the museum which they explain their problems with their paintings what Artisego has caused. Once you have rescued an artist after defeating the boss, you gain addicional health and levels up your abilities.

Pretzel Museum (Prehistoric Era) 

Music: https://soundcloud.com/rew_dtm/moir

Pretzel Museum is located in Germany in real life where the scenery is cloudy and rainy and it exposes various prehistorical monuments and paintings in the beginning. After defeating the main boss, you will save The Ancient Leader and the Orange Prism as a gift.

Paleolithic Path	5		X X
Dandelion Duskfield	5		X
Charcoal Cave	4
Tan Top Escalade	2	Ughah (Prehistoric boss)

Mahshi Museum (Egypcian Era / River culture)

Mahshi Museum is located in Egypt in real life where the scenery is hot and sunny and it exposes various egypcian ancient art, monuments and paintings. After defeating the main boss, you will save Zaeim the Farao and the Yellow Prism as a gift. The boss is the corrupted form of Zaeim, corrupted by Artisego.

Scalding Sunsteppes
Persian Puzzle Temple
The Maze of the Seven Plagues
Farao's Wrath	Zaeim the Farao (corrupted form)

White Museum (Classic Antiquity)

Mount Myrtle
Amethyst Acropolis
Olivine Ocean			X
Celadon Colosseum

Grand Museum (Middle Age)

Garden of Grace
Tyrian Tower
Copper Castle

Royal Museum

Acrylic Alley

Binocle Museum

Level 1			X
Level 2
Level 3			X
Level 4

Dragon Museum

Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4

The Galaxy

Sector A

Level 1			X
Level 2
Level 3			X
Level 4

The Canvas

Sector C

Level 1	Canvas Chaos	Boss Rush	X
Level 2	Artiseho's Unveilling	Artisego's Full Form	X
Level 3	The Final Sketch	Artisego's Dream	X

Gallery

Riddle with silouette

Riddle jumping

Gush

The logo of the game.

Media

Name:	Music:
Title Screen	X
Tutorial Level
Poly's Objective	X
Mid-Boss	X
Boss	X
Minigame	X
Poly's Decision	X
Album of Life	X
Credits	X

Trivia

• Alongside with the other 2D games, this is the first game from the Riddle series having a two-dimensional game with a bit of three-dimensional environment.
• Each country's museum has his own name that reflects their culture, food or object in real life (e.g.: Pretzel Museum is in Germany due to the food 'pretzel' that are originated from the German).
• This is the longest game of the Riddle series when it was in development.