Pic Pic Comments by John Walker

I bought Slitherlink and really enjoyed it so i will definitely get this one.

Region locked?...

My GF has been playing the jap version of this non stop ALL YEAR, she is utterly addicted.

If you liked Picross, or Slitherlink its a must buy

WOW! I had no idea about this game. Now I want it more than anything!

so its quite good then?
i always marvel at the folk who invent new puzzle games. (not including tetris 'inspired' bhollocks)

better than Saints row 2?

I've had this for ages - only ever really play Drawing though. Agree about puzzle 371 with the rabbit.

Totally worth a purchase - this game will keep you busy for many many hours.

Are EG trying to see how many 10/10s they can issue before people call bollocks!

When I saw the tagline "This years Slitherlink" my heart sank as the EG team have only just stopped putting references to Slitherlink in their reviews and articles.

Looks rubbish

Oh my, is it really that good? Slitherlink sure was awesome...

nice! only the other day i was wondering what i was going to do with myself as i approach the last few puzzles of slitherlink and now i have the answer! i thought i would be without a ds puzzle game until 3d picross.

I like to think of Slitherlink as the old Pic Pic. And yeah, it's wonderful, and so is John Walker.

Lovely stuff.

Looks rubbish

snap morriss!

Walker's completely lost it this time. Much as I normally agree with him on puzzle games, Pic Pic is total rubbish. Magicpic is a guessing game, Maze Paint is for babies, and Drawing is almost as juvenile as its title. This one's worth 4/10 at best.

PS I am lying.

Pah! I reviewed this aaaages ago! Why didn't it chart then? :D

http://www.snappygamer.com/2008/10/14/pi...

It's good but it's never a 10!

There's about 500 puzzles and it gets rock hard after about 50.

Or I'm rubbish.

I finished Picross DS a couple of weeks ago and was wondering if there any other puzzle games I might like to stop the DS being forever consigned to it's box in the cupboard. I think this is the answer.

i thought i would be without a ds puzzle game until 3d picross

There's a 3D Picross coming?!

Read 5 first paragraphs, looked at the screenshot, checked out the score and ordered from play.com at 24 euros. Fast and efficient!

I still prefer Nurikabe to either this or Slitherlink, but Pic Pic is still absolutely brilliant. Well, other than the maze mode, obviously.

If you liked Picross then you should get Hudonsoft's Illust. It's a far better product, the there are more/better puzzles and the interface is better.

£16.99 on play.com btw

Curses! I saw the headline on this and I immediately felt my heart sink. There are far too many great games coming out and far too little time and money to get and play all of them.

Well, Slither is still one of my favorite puzzlers and I have Mr. Walker to thank for that so I guess its time to hit up Play.com again...

They've actually doubled the price of this on Amazon since I reviewed it! It was a tenner a few weeks ago, now it's 20 quid. Still worth it, though.

26 comments and not a single BTH

Standards are dropping

This is why Eurogamer stands head and shoulders above the rest. It has writers like John who champion unsung heroes and understand that games don't have to have massive budgets to brighten your life and be deserving of a high score.

Damn you. I only had a single game to buy over the next 2 weeks but you ruined it :p. Bought on impulse because I liked the demo for Picross and have never tried these puzzles before (and because it's 505 Gameslol)

Better than LittleBi-

BANG!

\dies

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Bah, Game have it listed for a tenner but out of stock :(

10?! Fuck! Are you serious? I mean, I'm sure it's great but giving it a 10 implies that anybody, regardless of whether they normally have any interest in this type of game or not, will be blown away by it. Shit, maybe I'll check it out.

personally I wasnt able to get into this -- too much guessing rather than skill

The first paragrpah of this review is so true. If Mr Walker was a woman I'd probably marry him. The thought of ever having to live without my DS and my puzzle collection is so terrifying that I recently bought a second DS just to have as a back up. Long journeys and boring visits to relatives are never a chore with a DS in your pocket. Although it can be enmbarassing explaining to your grand parents why you just spent an hour in the toilet instead of looking at their photo collection! It's my most favourite thing in the whole world and I can happily see myself growing old with it.

Please don't hang me but I really didn't find picross DS to be all that. Good and functional yes, but entirely without soul.

Those games are fantastic and eat up a lot of my time. Picross is awesome, Slitherlink was awesome and I still haven't touched Nurikabe yet even though I bought it ages ago. Good stuff, will definitely get this one.

It's out of stock everywhere. So, fuck it.

Sold, sold a thousand times sold. I have lost a massive amount of time to Picross and I now look set to lose a lot more.

" ...and then the rest becomes more obvious. A 6 alongside the surrounding whites of 0 can now have its remaining squares filled in black, etc."

Jesus.... what?

Also - there have been plenty of great puzzle games created outside of Japan. Let's not get silly in our enthusiasm.

"So a brown 4 connects to another brown 4, perhaps inside a red 12. "

No, really.... what?

what, stuff the game, I'm sure it is as wonderful as John says. What is this about region locking the DS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Also - there have been plenty of great puzzle games created outside of Japan.

Pshaw! The only one I can even think of was that Denki Blocks, and it was rubbish...

;)

@the_dudefather

You've done that joke in every review thread. It wasn't even funny the first time!

Err, DS games have and will always be region-free.

DSi games will be region-locked but there's no games that are specific for the DSi yet!

i'm sure the DSi region locking only applies to the downloadable DSi games, which was pretty obvious really judging by the fact that the shopping channel on the Wii is region locked.

dryden555 - I promise you're playing it wrong. There's no guessing necessary in any of the 400 Drawing games, and only very occasionally in the Magipic games, and I'm still not convinced that this isn't just me messing up.

jaxon58 - the same. It never gets too hard. Only larger.

jonsaan - I maintain that Picross DS is disappointing, but we're in a tiny minority. You're right that it feels souless and pharmaceutical, especially when compared with Illust, or any of the Mario Picross games from machines ancient. And scrolling puzzles... makes me mad!

Tiger_Walts - I adore Hudson's Illust & Color Logic, and recommend it as much as Pic Pic. In fact, as it happens, I've started it all over again last week and am playing it in all my spare moments once more. Having completed every puzzle on my first play through.

Kiigan - name them.

As for region locking, that's the DSi that's not out yet. You can all relax.

Also - there have been plenty of great puzzle games created outside of Japan.

Clearly this isn't even slightly true. Westerners, for some bizarre reason I don't understand, can't make puzzle games for shit.

i guess tetris doesn't count?