It's picross, and it's good, what else do you want? There's story, different modes, rewards and a shop to buy collectibles/hints from.
There is one weird thing I've noticed and it does seem that if you activate help with greying out numbers on a column/row once they are entered, computer sometimes helps a bit too much? It's a little hard to put it into words, but I've tested it a few times, and it seems AI responsible for crossing out numbers in the given column or row will actually fill out the correct number even if the player should have no idea which is it. Say you have a row of three 1s, and you know that one of them is somewhere in the middle? Most other games wouldn't grey out numbers from the middle of the board, but here, once you cover it around with X marks, the system might grey out the first 1 of the row of numbers, suggesting that, indeed, all the other ones come later to the right. It's a bit unfortunate since I'm trying not to use hints of any kind, but they seem to just appear sometimes.
Even aside from that, I wouldn't call this game hard. The game's got plenty of puzzles that help you along the perimeter first, so if you're a hardcore nonogram player, I doubt you'll find much challenge.
This might seem a bit negative, but only because it's a particular curiosity I found in this game and in no other titles of this genre I've played, and what else can you say about picross? It's the puzzle you know and presumably love, and if you don't, this seems like a great starting point due to its ease (granted, I've skipped the tutorial, so can't really say if it goes into great detail). Amazing music, cute visuals, pretty funny story that's not too long and can be skipped if you're not into it, and even some sense of progression if you don't just want to stare at one list of 300 puzzles and need some sense of pace.
There is one weird thing I've noticed and it does seem that if you activate help with greying out numbers on a column/row once they are entered, computer sometimes helps a bit too much? It's a little hard to put it into words, but I've tested it a few times, and it seems AI responsible for crossing out numbers in the given column or row will actually fill out the correct number even if the player should have no idea which is it. Say you have a row of three 1s, and you know that one of them is somewhere in the middle? Most other games wouldn't grey out numbers from the middle of the board, but here, once you cover it around with X marks, the system might grey out the first 1 of the row of numbers, suggesting that, indeed, all the other ones come later to the right. It's a bit unfortunate since I'm trying not to use hints of any kind, but they seem to just appear sometimes.
Even aside from that, I wouldn't call this game hard. The game's got plenty of puzzles that help you along the perimeter first, so if you're a hardcore nonogram player, I doubt you'll find much challenge.
This might seem a bit negative, but only because it's a particular curiosity I found in this game and in no other titles of this genre I've played, and what else can you say about picross? It's the puzzle you know and presumably love, and if you don't, this seems like a great starting point due to its ease (granted, I've skipped the tutorial, so can't really say if it goes into great detail). Amazing music, cute visuals, pretty funny story that's not too long and can be skipped if you're not into it, and even some sense of progression if you don't just want to stare at one list of 300 puzzles and need some sense of pace.