Despite thinking we're pretty smart in general, we're just terrible at sudoku. We know that, conceptually, you can use any nine symbols instead of numbers to play the game, but we never wanted to try that because it sounds pretty confusing. It's a lot easier to glance at a line and see that 4 and 9 are missing than it is to see that walrus is missing.
Majesco's Toon-Doku, then, is a puzzle weapon that can be used to melt our unfortunate psyches. Not only does it have picture-based sudoku, where you line up rows, columns, and squares of little dessert icons, but it has custom "distractors" that block the screen with a drawing of your choice. We feel our Brain Age approaching infinity.
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4-11-2007 @ 1:49PM
Jarrett Kaufman said...
Majesco and other shovelware publishers can be so clueless. Majesco has been trying to climb out of that category for a while now by increasing production value and visibility of their games, but at their heart they still tend to prove clueless on things like this. Sudoku is already a fun clever game. I have yet to buy a Sudoku game for my DS besides Brain Age not because they haven't found a way to replace the numbers with symbols that make it confusing as hell to understand, and not because they haven't come up with artificial challenges to complicate it further, but because nobody's managed to make a pure and usable enough alternative. The only thing Brain Age was lacking was enough puzzles. Take their brilliant input method, add a massive number of puzzles (and a puzzle generator), gussy it up with some nice graphics and sound (which I'll mute anyway) and then you have a purchase.
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4-17-2007 @ 1:45PM
John Pleat said...
I was actually plesantly suprised, every other Sudoku game has let me down. The preset puzzles are a good challenge so far, and the generator makes puzzles if I get frustrated. I use the images more sparingly than I think is intended... currently 5 is replaced by the panda.
Even though it has the Brain Age-esque Zoom, any drawing motion moves the puzzle around. So it's limited to Drag and Drop or button controls. But it makes sense so I'm still satisfied.
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