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Reviews for "Pixelo"

Excellent little game, very intelligent and brain teasing, it's a good exercise for cognition.

I didn't like the lounge music played throughout the game too much at first, but it eventually grew on me, and the graphics are also pretty polished, with good looking menus, play fields and all other stuff.

I really like this kind of puzzle gameplay, in which you can discover the solution deductively, rather than through trial and error. Another cool thing is that this concept presents some pretty simple, yet cool mathematical properties, including the fact that for each setup of numbers around the board, there exists a single picture (or none) that correspond to that setup. The first stages are ridiculously easy, but after them, the difficulty scales up almost perfectly.

I like how the player's progress is measured in an RPG fashion, with "level ups" being granted after a certain amount of EXP is gathered. There are also the "super power badges", which add a "boost" to EXP and gold, and I love how the looks of the game are highly customizable with unlockable themes and features which are made available by clearing stages, then bought.

To sum it up, this is a pretty complete little puzzle game, and it plays pretty nicely too.

tamaii responds:

wow... you exactly pointed out my game concept.
Yes, i wanted to implement RPG element as you said.
really nice review for me. Thank you for playing!

Ah I used to have a game like this on my DS and I loved it. So naturally I love this game, however, I am using Firefox and as you said there is a lot of lag so unfortunately I can't enjoy the game fully. But other than that, great game.

tamaii responds:

This could be flashplayer problem. Could you update it?

In case anyone's wondering if this game is original, it's not, as far as I know, Artifex Mundi did this first*, they have a collection of puzzles, and I finally get the chance to just do one of my favourite ones. The design of this one is relaxing, with soothing music, soft animations and appropriate sound effects. But compared to Artifex's, these lack insight and had quantity over quality, there were times you had to guess, and the hint didn't help (I could take up any space and still form the same shape, really).
*: I recommended that you try out his/their games, they're point n'click mysteries with incredible art (best I've ever seen), audio and storylines.

love the game but the worst part was already being an advanced player having to do easy and medium just to get to hard, an option would be nice.

one more thing i noticed is usually the numbers black out after you have filled in all the squares before them. i love and take advantage of this feature saving me from having to count, the problem is it seems to mess up when filling in numbers at about/over 10 causing me to mess up.

Well, it's just your typical Picross game, but it's still fun regardless!