i played through the entire game on expert, so no auto-fade or highlighting, here's what i have to say. play it until the "thanks for playing" level, the rest is pure pain, it's not worth it unless you're into cbt in puzzle form. hour long levels, lines and lines of 1 2 2 1 2 2 1- ah fuck i put an extra square there and it messed up everything there goes 49 minutes of my life. then there's the couple of puzzles with actual dead ends, even with the highlight option turned on.
still, big recommendation if you're a picross maniac
still, big recommendation if you're a picross maniac
standard stuff with really good controls for a pc picross. really wish there was some cohesive theme. anyway, i'm just bothered by the ost, which often just sounds like off-brand chill holiday music and winds up annoying me more than soothing me as a result
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update after 100%ing the game: the final puzzle is amazingly silly, and there's lots of clever hidden achievements that sometimes end up being more annoying than anything else. still a lot of fun for the price and even though it's not got a cohesive theme for its images, it's still got a very wide range of difficulty that i've not really found in a picross game in the past. some of the very lategame stuff got excessively long (anything from the 30x30 point on really), but the game never got frustrating, just a bit tedious and on-and-off in a way it hadn't been up till then.
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update after 100%ing the game: the final puzzle is amazingly silly, and there's lots of clever hidden achievements that sometimes end up being more annoying than anything else. still a lot of fun for the price and even though it's not got a cohesive theme for its images, it's still got a very wide range of difficulty that i've not really found in a picross game in the past. some of the very lategame stuff got excessively long (anything from the 30x30 point on really), but the game never got frustrating, just a bit tedious and on-and-off in a way it hadn't been up till then.
Love me picross, simple as. Compared to the other PC picross games I've played it has the best controls, not much to say other than that. I did a majority of the puzzles but kinda lost steam once I hit the 30x30 section. They always just take too long to do so it's not as satisfying and it can be really disheartening if you get 20 minutes into a 30x30 and realize you marked a wrong spot somewhere.
i have now beaten the entire game, every level, every mosaic, every achievement, every gold crown.
this is the greatest picross game of all time. topping this would be insanely difficult, from the way it actually challenges you to not use hints to the pieces themselves being possible without guessing and you can tell exactly what theyre supposed to be as you make it. this game is fantastic. definitely worth the money, i got 95.1 hours in it according to steam.
this is the greatest picross game of all time. topping this would be insanely difficult, from the way it actually challenges you to not use hints to the pieces themselves being possible without guessing and you can tell exactly what theyre supposed to be as you make it. this game is fantastic. definitely worth the money, i got 95.1 hours in it according to steam.