While entertaining - most Picross games are - this game's use of unlocks, badges, prizes, and even unlockable *options menus* made things vastly too slow and complicated. I would much rather play ten very difficult puzzles than the two hundred easy puzzles which precede them. At least make Normal and Hard modes unlocked to start!
However, the convoluted unlock system aside, the game has solid puzzles and I appreciated the implementation of mouse and keyboard control on a Picross game.
Well designed game, however I'm not familiar with this concept and it feels like I'm supposed to be. The tutorial, as others have described, did nothing to explain the game. In fact, the tutorial felt is was more important to explain to me the controls (which are the only intuitive aspects of this game and require any instruction) than how to actually play the game.
There's a problem if I had to read comments to understand how to play a game. I would like to see the tutorial redesigned - then I think the game might become more welcoming to all types of players.
-The game itself is just picross, but the mood it sets is pretty good, the songs are pretty relaxing
- The mouse controls are annoying (Usually you Hold a key to mark X you don't have to switch it by pressing it) cause sometimes you mark things quickly and think your going to put an X and end up screwing up
- The RPG element is fun, but some of the badges have horrible descriptions or are just plain silly, I mean why would I pay 40k for a badge that gives me 2k for every 20 minutes of being on the board (You have to be on a puzzle, so you can't just leave it while you sleep cause after 30m you lose)? it would take me way to long to get my money back and on that time I could probably finish hard and I would be able to play with a +%gold instead
I also want to clarify for the players that in these puzzles you don't have to guess a single time if one particular pixel is or isn't the right one, there are multiple logical things you can do, there are some puzzles were after doing the more obvious marks you will be left with just 1 or 2 logical paths (Non-guessing paths) to continue, so it may be hard, you may not see it, or it may involve a method that you aren't using, but please do not lower the score of this game just cause you weren't able to solve it without guessing.
Would have been a 5 star but I lost all of my progress and that just bummed me out completely. Otherwise a great game and it helped me learn how to play Picross.
OK ..... I got to about half way down the normal levels then all of a sudden it reset my entire hard work! I have an account on here and earned awards with this game. Why did it do this to me?!?!?!
The game was very good other wise and I'm very addicted which is why I'm so damn pissed off that all my work is now gone.