Japanese developer Compile Heart, which contains members of Compile (who developed Puyo Puyo and just about everything else we have loved) plans to release a three-part (so far) series of puzzle games for the DS, called the Puzzle Mate series. Crossword Mate features Japanese crosswords, Nanpure Mate is a "number place" (also known as sudoku) game, and Oekaki Mate is a picross collection. These, however, differ from other such products in one important way: the puzzles are large. All three collections feature larger playing fields than usual, which leads to things like the nightmarish multi-screen picross puzzle seen in the screenshot here.And speaking of nightmarish, coulrophobes will be terrified to see the mascot for this series, a clown drawn by Famitsu artist Susumu Matsushita.
Read - Crossword Mate
Read - Nanpure Mate
Read - Oekaki Mate
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2-01-2008 @ 12:21PM
TurboFool said...
I want. I haven't stopped playing Nintendo's Picross since it was released. Yes, you heard me, it's been my primary game since it launched. And no, I'm not really slow. I beat all the puzzles a long time ago, beat every downloaded puzzle (they come too infrequently), and have no re-beat nearly every puzzle with a faster time. I can't get myself to stop playing the damn game, and it's pissing me off. Only thing that could stop me now is a newer, better Picross.
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2-01-2008 @ 1:17PM
Brello said...
Aww, there's only one english word in all the screenshots of Oekaki Mate and they botched it. How cute. I love Picross DS, but what looks to be ≥40x40 puzzles is just too much for me. I'd rather use a device with a bigger screen for a puzzle that large, especially when only 14 fit on the screen..yikes..
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2-01-2008 @ 10:49PM
Hame said...
For someone as numerically-challenged as me that screenshot is scarier than anything in Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Eternal Darkness put together.
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2-03-2008 @ 7:59PM
Gadget said...
^^ What Hame said. AND it has a scarey clown. No sirree, don't think I'll be picking this one up.
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