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Murder by Numbers |OT| PiCross Examination!
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That switch screen just isn't cut out for fine control.
I too miss the stylus controls from DS/3DS Picross too. I've been playing a lot of nonograms recently on my iPad with the Apple Pencil. Pretty great.
Finished the first 'case', took me around 4 hours. Puzzles are good so far (I mean, it's picross. You either like it or not!) and the dialog is snappy. Must've been around 30 I found in the first case with varying difficulty.
Beautiful little quirk of the game - when you finish a picross puzzle of an item, it appears in your inventory as that puzzle as evidence to 'present'. Makes the picross more blended into the game 🙂
And they've gone full into the Phoenix Wright pun names too!
Beautiful little quirk of the game - when you finish a picross puzzle of an item, it appears in your inventory as that puzzle as evidence to 'present'. Makes the picross more blended into the game 🙂
And they've gone full into the Phoenix Wright pun names too!
No idea what they were doing for 20 hours but it's not 8 either. The game is pretty long.
Same. On one hand, these are literally two of my favorite genres, hell, favorite games mashed together in one beautiful package. But on the other, I don't want it to be not as amazing as the premise is. It would break my heart. :(
I mean, it's also like 13 bucks right now. Not exactly a high buy in. Even Aviary Attorney is more expensive.
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small nitpick: i don't like how when someone is talking and they get cut off by someone else their text box is automatically skipped
that happened in Ace Attorney too, especially when Lady Oldbag talked nonsense
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another nitpick: when solving a puzzle and scrolling to the end or beginning of a row or column, it doesn't stop at the end and just keeps going.
i guess you're right
So, how good are the puzzles for people who have a lot of experience with picross style puzzle games
Seems a decent price and I like Ace Attorney and a Picross (on occasion), so I'll give this whirl.
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not true, there's an option in jupiter's games, and it's set by default to stop at the edge.
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Yep. I don't remember ever looping around to the other side.not true, there's an option in jupiter's games, and it's set by default to stop at the edge.
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you have to set it to loop if you want. it makes sense for it to stop at the edge. if you want to mark the first block or start counting from there, you just hold a direction to get there and shouldn't have to actually pay attention to stop there yourself.
I didn't even know it existed, but you're right, if a row or culumn is full or empty it is much easier that way, on the other hand, if you want to fill from the inside to the edge, it is worse.
Is the Picross the only game element while the investigations more or less progress by themselves, or is there a degree of knowing what to do with the evidence you get (a la Ace Attorney)?
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you still have to navigate from location to location, ask questions from people, and present evidence to them (based on the little i've played), and there's an investigate mode to find the puzzles. it's not just scrolling text between picross puzzles.
argh, the wait for this to unlock on Steam is killing me! I really don't want to buy this on NSW, as I have too many Picross games on there already.
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pretty much, you have to solve a puzzle to get the evidence in your inventory
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at least so far the investigate mode isn't that engaging. it's not like you can click on everything to read a little commentary. there's only a few points of interest in each screen.
No. Basically you collect various itemas of evidence and show them to people - everyone has comments on everything, and if you should the right item to the right person, the story progresses.
It's pretty simple and can be brute-forced by just trying everything out in the unlikely case you get stuck, but I found it engaging enough. The Picross puzzles get complicated enough that the rest doesn't have to be.
There are a lot of help options, yes. You should be able to solve everything with them, but some lower your score which in turn doesn't let you unlock all the bonus puzzles for a case. If that kind of thing bothers you, this might be a bit of a problem.
some of the ones you unlock (scout's memories) can be tricky
its still mostly a picross game.