Picross puzzles with a moderately entertaining murder mystery on top of it that overstays its welcome.
At the start of Murder by Numbers, I found myself getting ancy to get through the exposition so I could get to the meat of why I was playing the game - the Picross puzzles.
Over time, that balance began to shift and i wanted more story and less puzzles. Though, I think that is due more to my picross fatigue and less to the quality of the writing. The story was fun and, despite how incredibly predictable it was, I enjoyed seeing how it all played out.
I honestly thought I really liked Picross until I played 20 hours of puzzles over the span of a week and now I think I'm good on Picross for a while. To be clear, I still like Picross, but I've definitely discovered my limit. I've dabbled with picross in the past but I've never played this many puzzles in this short of a time. The issue is mainly that once you've done one picross puzzle, you've done them all. The mechanics don't change. It's like doing one kind of math problem 200 times but just changing the numbers around every time.
+ Good combo of puzzles and story
+ Fun story
- Too long
- Predictable twists
- Music gets repetitive
At the start of Murder by Numbers, I found myself getting ancy to get through the exposition so I could get to the meat of why I was playing the game - the Picross puzzles.
Over time, that balance began to shift and i wanted more story and less puzzles. Though, I think that is due more to my picross fatigue and less to the quality of the writing. The story was fun and, despite how incredibly predictable it was, I enjoyed seeing how it all played out.
I honestly thought I really liked Picross until I played 20 hours of puzzles over the span of a week and now I think I'm good on Picross for a while. To be clear, I still like Picross, but I've definitely discovered my limit. I've dabbled with picross in the past but I've never played this many puzzles in this short of a time. The issue is mainly that once you've done one picross puzzle, you've done them all. The mechanics don't change. It's like doing one kind of math problem 200 times but just changing the numbers around every time.
+ Good combo of puzzles and story
+ Fun story
- Too long
- Predictable twists
- Music gets repetitive