unplayable with keyboard & mouse

[dadel]

Controller is a must have. You need three hands to be able to play with keyboard and mouse, especially during action sequences. I don't get why testers didn't point it out.
And you cannot even remap the controls. Jump is fixed to spacebar and color-switching fixed to mouse (you need mouse solely for this).
This problem could easily be resolved by changing jump to W and color-switching to num1-num9 (if you skip num5, those keys form a circle). Then it would be playable with the 2 hands most humans have.

[Nice to Have]

You know, keeping LB of the mouse pressed slows down time considerably. So you have enough time to switch to the right color. You don*t even have to click on a color; just move cursor over it while lwft button pressed, then release.
It's very playable with k/m IMHO. Cheers!

[Larry]

Em... but I did change the controls in the menu, maybe you just haven't find how to set it?
Totally agree that it is very uneasy (even impossible) if you try to jump with a spacebar, use mouse, and wasd contral at once
Good luck with the controls, game is awesome, hope you'll find how to set the controls that will make it possible for you to enjoy the game

[dadel]

I switched to my PS4 controller after first jumping sequence...

[Roxor128]

It's another platformer spoiled by developers with a "WASD is God" mentality. If only they'd let you remap colour-selection to something on the keyboard, it would be great.

[monxa]

get a thinkpad, bind the colorwheel to a key close to the little knob in the middle of your new laptops keyboard and use the trackpoint thing to choose the desired flavour of your subjective eye-candy-taste. playable.

roxor there are more than 8 colors in this world. so the colorwheel for keyboard-only is out due to digital axis. the alternative mapping each color to a seperate key does not work with the flow of the game, where time is decelerated while choosing a color. also you'd have to learn the mappings for this short-to-be-played game. so the mouse solution works well, right?

[garylapointe]

This is the only Steam game I've played on my Mac that I can't get the controller to work on, not sure why.

[Alchemist's Fire]

I disagree. I found it unplayable with a controller after getting the 2nd or 3rd colour. Using the right thumbstick for colour changes and the A button for jump was almost impossible for me, I had to hold the controller in such a weird way and I just wasn't accurate enough to select the colours in time.
I tried switching colours to the left thumbstick and movement to the right, but my brain was already set the opposite, so that was worse. Also tried setting the jump button to one of the bumpers instead, and that was a disaster. I'm having a WAY easier time with mouse and keyboard.

To each their own

[PIZZA DELIVER-V]

8 hours with keyboard, playable

[HalvedDead]

bind jump to mouse1 and changing color to mouse2, after this the controls are like really good and i dont have to 'think' what button to press or how to switch to the color i need. i still kept wasd tho

[Draudem]

What? What's the problem in jumping on spacebar?
I completed this game on m+kb and it never occured to me that this is inconvenient.
I guess you are just not used to keyboard in general. Spacebar is a common button for jump.

[HalvedDead]

Originally posted by Draudem:

What? What's the problem in jumping on spacebar?
I completed this game on m+kb and it never occured to me that this is inconvenient.
I guess you are just not used to keyboard in general. Spacebar is a common button for jump.

its a very common button for the jump in gaming yes, but sometimes theres a ton of different buttons or there are other buttons that have very unique functions to navigate compared to other games, it's quite hard to explain but even well functioning human hands can lack the dexterity to press the spacebar and then do all the other actions at once, its better to bind it to another key somewhere that is much easier to press amidst the chaos.

[iod]

Honestly didn't even give much thought to the controls. wasd for movement, left thumb for jump and right hand for color change. Seems reasonable to me. And the screen slows down during action sequences.

[Korvar]

Put me down for team "Mouse And Keyboard Work Fine". Admittedly I *have* to use M+KB because my controller's left stick is on the fritz :( But WASD+Space seems like a very standard configuration to me, so I guess that's why it didn't bother me.

[Helen Magnus]

Been gaming since the 1980s. Spacebar being the jump key is not unusual at all.

[Nacho De Lito]

8h and 100% with mouse and keyboard..
ASD for movement
W for doors
space for jumping
and leftclick to choose colors
easy and usual

sometime i jump into death cause i thought W is for jumping, but that is my bad