Thunderbolt writes: "It’s about time. Picross didn’t get the following it deserved. It’s great to see someone give it another chance and reinvent it into something even more compelling. It’s got all the addictive puzzle solving that made the first game so awesome. The switch to 3D made things far more interesting; rather than relying on a grid, you’ve got to rotate the entire puzzle and search it piece by piece to figure everything out. The puzzles are well-designed in terms of complexity. Unfortunately, a few of the fundamental mechanics didn’t get the same kind of treatment. The camera is occasionally horrendous, and the additional controls could have been made far easier to handle. Despite such flaws, however, Picross 3D is an excellent puzzle game and easily one of the best on the DS. Picross is back. And this time, it’s personal".
This week Asif (@Technosucks) from @Shacknews join s Mike (@AssaultSuit), Tiny (@Tiny415) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) to talk about Shacknews, Hobbs and Shaw, video games, edutainment, ESA leak, board games, SAAM Arcade, PopUp GenCon, EVO,Super Mario Maker 2 and more video games.
Game Informer - When we started discussing a day-long feature for all of us to talk about games that chip away at our free time, I excitedly signed up for Picross. The Picross DS titles and the recently released Picross e on the 3DS eShop have all been the perfect examples of games that I will play “just one more” of until I have grown a beard and forgotten to eat for two days. All of that being said, however, I have no idea how to explain why these games are so fun and so difficult to put down.
SPC: "Last week began the five week series of what I perceive to be the 50 best Nintendo DS games of the system's exhaustive library... This week we delve into ten more top titles for the Nintendo DS, one of the best-selling dedicated gaming platforms of all time, currently at around 150 million units worldwide across all revisions. On these ten titles for this week, we have a menagerie of memorable characters and series like Mario, Mega Man, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Remember that these games must have released in North America to be on this list. With that out of the way, are you ready for round two?"
