How do you review a game like Chess or Tetris? These are classic games that have been proven to be interesting for years and years. Most of those types of reviews are just “how good is this specific iteration”. Picross S9 was my first big exploration of Picross since I first played a bit of it on DSi. The core itself is brilliant but I wish S9 had a few more interesting gamemodes or grid sizes or even shapes. Nonetheless I absolutely did not expect to put 35 hours into this title. It’s really a joy to discover “tricks” to solving certain rows or section but really those realizations just come down to basic logic and math. If you want your Picross fix, I doubt you’ll find a better version than this.