The story just seems completely disjointed from the game. I think I would have enjoyed this more if he was drawing things he needed during his adventure to fight the dragons. Instead it is just a random collection of picross puzzles wedged into a stock fantasy story.
Reviews for "Picross and Dragons"
Sorry, this didn't do it for me. You know, I was promised Picross AND Dragons, so I expected there to be at least some cutscenes after each handful of levels, or maybe some crazy dragon animations whenever I got a square right, but that didn't happen. Instead, there's the introduction, and after that, picross level after picross level. And after I beat the game... it goes straight to the credits, no final cutscene, no nothing.
The level select screen got me confused as hell at first, because it only shows one level at a time, and all level screens look almost exactly the same before they're cleared (except the dragons change color), meaning I took a while to figure out that the levels I had already beaten were included to the left of the current unlocked level being shown on screen. A list of levels, or even a numbering of levels, would already help a lot in that matter. Also, the level select menu bugs out sometimes and lags a bit before responding to my clicks.
I do love the retro music, though. I can give it that, and the fact that I like Picross a lot too. The controls in this Picross game manage to be even worse than those of Armor Picross. You know, it would be cool if we could hold a key in our keyboard that would change our click type between paint/erase/X instead of having to click the panels all the time.
That not to mention every level is stupidly easy, it doesn't amount to a challenge at all, it feels like I'm just doing redundant paperwork most of the time.
I'm sorry, this game is not very good. Giving it 2 stars for the music and for being at least a functioning Picross puzzle. The greatest challenge of the game is being to find that hidden rocket, actually.
Good music, decent UI. Needed a LOT more editing and double checking as some puzzles have incorrect clues (2 and 11, iirc). While others cannot be logically solved properly (7 and 8). Please ask others to proof check your work before releasing it.
JackAstral responds:
Sorry for the typos in puzzle 2 and 11- I've fixed them up now. I'll look into tightening up puzzle 7 and 8 asap.
Thanks for trying it out anyway :)
This game was... JUST enjoyable. I had a good few minutes completing it. The problem with it is the puzzle design. All the puzzles were WAY too easy. You don't make your puzzles symmetrical. Toward the end, I could guess the puzzle halfway through because it was way too obvious. Great try at a game, but lame puzzles all the way.
I was really excited when I saw the words 'Picross' and 'Dragons' together!
This was a let down for me - the 'story' wasn't at all related to the content.
Could you have pictures like weapons, then have those weapons fight a dragon?
Disappointed... :(