Mira’s Brush Preview (Steam Early Access)

by Jim Smale · December 21, 2021

For our Mira’s Brush Preview we take on this cute color-based platformer. As a house painter, use Mira’s magic brush to steal color from enemies and use those colors to jump, dash and figure her way through Chromaland.

Mira’s Brush Preview Pros:

Vibrant pixel art graphics.
448.33MB Download size.
Controller support.
Opening tutorial and level.
Gimmick – you can steal an enemy’s color and paint enemies, if they match the background they get defeated and disappear.
You can paint, change the color of enemies but also paint parts of the environment to have things appear like walls and platforms.
Prism tickets or rainbow coins are all over the place and are used as the currency in the game.
Platformer gameplay.
Has an old-school feel to it.
Colorblind support.
Getting hit has you lose the color of your character until you die.
Clever idea.
Chiptune soundtrack.
The map fills in as you play.
Only 3 buttons are used.
Painting parts of the level to find shortcuts.
Cool little features like taking the sun’s color make it rain in the world.
Bonus areas.
Puzzle elements to it.
Levels will have to be replayed as there are too many things to do in one run.
Every level has a set amount of sacred art and is paintable to interact with as well as an overall paint percentage.
Hub allows you to use the shops, talk to people, practice on enemies and work as a level select.
Can replay levels.
Save when you want.
Load quicksaves option.

Mira’s Brush Preview Cons:

No Steam achievements yet.
No graphics settings.
The mouse cursor stays on the screen.
Music can go weird after loading.
The mechanic of grabbing and painting is easy enough but it does come with a slight learning curve.
You die far too quickly.
Dialogue with characters has the camera jump all over the place and zoom in and out.
Cannot skip the dialogue.
Text in places is not in pixel form and it looks out of place and wrong.
Not sure if intentional but you can just enter and exit shops to reset the prism tickets allowing you to farm items.
Jumping feels loose.
Never sure what is an obstacle or a platform similarly never sure what is an enemy or friend.
Does not explain things clearly and this is more frustrating at the start of the game.