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Picross S3 announced for Switch, out April 25
- Thread starter vestan
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Love the color picross puzzles so far. They are just hard enough to be challenging without being too hard.
i got stuck a few times and had to suspend and finish other puzzles, but i just finished it! i made some random assumptions and they lead to the solution. i'm afraid i have you beat by a few seconds :)
nomal mode done, clip mode next
two more reviews
http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/picross_s3 (8/10)
https://www.vooks.net/picross-s3-switch-eshop-review/ (4/5)
two more reviews
http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/picross_s3 (8/10)
https://www.vooks.net/picross-s3-switch-eshop-review/ (4/5)
I just bought this under the impression that your completed pictures finally animate. But five puzzles in, and the reward is still the ol' static image style we're used to.
Why did I think these were animated? Am I mixing S3 up with a different Picross game?
Why did I think these were animated? Am I mixing S3 up with a different Picross game?
clip mode done. playing color picross now, and it's really fun. i hope they bump the number of puzzles for S4, 30 is way too low.
only the 30 puzzles in the color picross mode animate after you finish them
they always announce them shortly before release, no?
Problem with Picross to me is that once you learn the mechanics, there's literally no difficulty. It just takes time to complete them, not brain power. My main issue is how literal effort they put into these things. When you can get 1000s of puzzles of more varying sizes than Nintendo offers for free on phones and tablets, it really shows how little goes into making these. At least with 3D Picross they tried something new.
Just one regular puzzle left: P116. Most of them were pretty easy this time around as I finished most of them within 10 minutes. Still better than S2, which had a number of stupidly hard puzzles.
for me, i look at them as 10 (or 9 or 8) dollar games that i can relax and play for ~40 hours. that's more time than i can get out of most $60 games. yeah the mechanics of picross don't offer anything new after you've learned all the tricks, but i still find it very relaxing to solve the puzzles. i know there are a ton of free picross games on phones but personally none of them feel as good to play, mostly cuz touch controls never feel right, and are a complete mess for bigger puzzles.
some of these times are inflated cuz i might have forgotten to pause the game when watching a show or something, but these are the ones that took me the longest to solve:
P140 30:22
P100 19:09
P116 18:01
P117 16:14
P118 15:07
Thanks, that's a shame. Hopefully if there's a Picross S4 it'll add that option along with touch controls.
The game has smart fill, unlike Konami Picross, so after you clear a row, you can just hold down the 'mark space' button and left or right on dpad.
How big are the largest grids in this game? Some of the picross puzzles in the monthly games magazine I get can take more than an hour to complete.
20x15 is as big as they get, and there's about 15 of those.
I mean, have you even played any of the Nintendo Picross games?
I'd seriously much rather have a 100-200 puzzle game by Jupiter, where each puzzle is designed and a random collection of 1000s puzzles on Android, where maybe 1-2% of the puzzles are interesting to solve, and the rest just feels like shit.
Yes, I've played every single Picross game from Nintendo since the DS and their puzzles aren't any different than ones I play in other games. There's nothing remotely special about the puzzles, but the presentation is definitely better than many other games(although in the latest two games from Jupiter it has a completely useless mode to me where the puzzles don't even form a picture until they're all placed together. There's nothing rewarding about that to me). Although Capcoms latest game is better. Now 3D Picross is definitely better, although there's a cheaper iPad 3D picross game that has many more puzzles and it's quite good as well. Again, the problem I have with this genre is there is no difficulty once you learn the mechanics. It's more of a time waster than a mind bender. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
A shame there are so few Color Picross puzzles. Those definitely threw my brain through a loop a few times. All done. Time to wait for S4. Hope the next includes more Color Picross and gets rid of Clip Picross. Those are just pointless filler.
I love the Color puzzles and I'd love to have as many of them as Mega Picross typically does while having less Mega Picross puzzles. They also need to add color blind support for those that need it.
This is precisely why I'm so pleased with Mega Picross. On the harder puzzles I'm still occasionally thrown for a loop and don't know what to do next, which never happens anymore in regular picross or 3D picross.
None of the Jupiter Picross games have been on sale yet. The ones Nintendo has published have maybe had one sale, so it's not much better there.
It'll be a while until I get to this one, I'm partway through S1 right now. It's weird how addictive this game is, some puzzles I don't think I'm enjoying it at all and then I complete a puzzle - oh that's what that was supposed to be, I guess - then go straight into the next one!
I got hooked from the Konami mobile one. I'm at something like 110% there.
I got hooked from the Konami mobile one. I'm at something like 110% there.
done, in 45 hours. i beat it faster than S2, despite having 30 more puzzles in clip mode and the whole color mode as well. S2 just had some really hard puzzles i guess.
hoping they bump the number of color puzzles in the next one, 30 was way too low.
hoping they bump the number of color puzzles in the next one, 30 was way too low.
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Damn those are some skills. Please forgive, my first Picross was S2 😢
You have to insist until it does. Then soon you came to realize some things that make it easier. How a Mega 2 can only have one shape and always need good space to exist. How sometimes the possible combinations for a certain Mega line are wayyyyy fewer than it seems at first so there's a lot of squares to be discovered. Singles on a mega line are useful; their opposite side is always an X. Single numbers before or after mega numbers at the edge of the grid indicate Xs on that edge, opposite to the side of said numbers. Intersections with the perpendicular line/column matter, sometimes only one combination works for both. I'd really love to explain these with some sort of videos but I don't have the skills or equipment.
Keep assists turned on. It eventually clicks.
You know what? Some of these tips have actually been extremely helpful. Thank you so much!
Aww. It's a huge shame! I always disable the timer in puzzles that let me. Thanks for letting me know.
Good luck!
If you'd like, you can post a picture of where you are stuck and we might be able to help!
Can you only unlock the Clip puzzles by playing regular Picross? I've been playing through Mega Picross and haven't been unlocking any. Not really interested in redoing the puzzles on an easier mode to unlock stuff.
I got stumped on P140 (first time in a picross) so I looked at a video, guy puts an X at 2:42 into the video that would allow me to complete the whole thing but I can work out the logic he used for placement. Anyone got any opinions or advice.