Curious about how Picross DS works? Feel like torturing yourself with preview materials for a game that has yet to be announced for the US? We were, and we did!
The European Touch Generations page has a rather nice interactive Flash presentation that demonstrates how to work a Picross puzzle. It describes an aspect of gameplay, demonstrates it with an animation, and then the user can click to the next lesson. Sort of like an animated Powerpoint presentation. At the end of the short presentation, you get a small Picross puzzle.
We actually had a pretty hard time grasping the Picross "strategy" before running this demo. So we can give an honest DS Fanboy Testimonial-- It Really, Really Works!
[Via GoNintendo]
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4-30-2007 @ 10:55AM
Saphion said...
I freaking loved the Picross on the original GameBoy.
Good times.
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4-30-2007 @ 11:50AM
pathrw said...
Oh, so that's how you play!
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4-30-2007 @ 12:25PM
Brian Arnold said...
I absolutely loved Picross on the original Game Boy. I still have my copy and it works well on my GBA SP (NES edition, w00t). I also still have my Super Game Boy for the SNES, and it still works well there too. It was actually one of the few games for the GB that was designed to support the SGB. :D
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4-30-2007 @ 12:33PM
Kian said...
In the upper right hand corner of the screen it says the release date.
November 2007
I like it!
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4-30-2007 @ 3:25PM
ambient said...
As someone pointed out in an earlier post about this game, one can purchase the currently-available-in-europe game Essential Sudoku DS to get your Picross fix (in English) while waiting for this game to release. The game features 1000 "picture puzzles" in addition to the 1000 "number puzzles" mentioned in the title. Yes, that's what they call them, so no, it's not as pretty as Picross DS. BUT...
...it doesn't matter because picross gameplay is just pure genius on the DS. I just received a copy for my birthday and cannot stop playing. I love solving puzzles electronically instead of on paper (see conceptispuzzles.com for weekly free puzzles from the best designers out there, as well as a bunch of of variant puzzle styles), and it's so nice to be able to do it on the go.
The game is $20 from amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Essential-Sudoku-DS-Nintendo/dp/B000G3JWVY/), though my gifter supposedly got an even better deal from an importer.
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