Definitely not for anyone with eye problems. You can see in the screenshot on the right a puzzle with three different shades of red in it. I had to play the game on the DS’s highest brightness setting, and I still kept getting confused about whether I’d placed the colors correctly or not. Third flaw, also related to colors, is that sometimes the colors are just too similar. I don’t think the developers put much thought into it, because it should have been possible to make sure the background was a color that wasn’t in that puzzle, or to give the player a chance to choose the background color. If I’m working with light blue, for example, and the background is also light blue, it’s very hard to tell where I’ve placed the color already and where I haven’t. Second flaw, sometimes the colored backgrounds interfere with the placement of colors. Maybe create an option to spread the picture over the top and bottom screen? I don’t know what would work, but as it is the larger puzzles aren’t much fun. I’m not sure what Color Cross could do about it, because I remember Picross having the same problem. You can zoom in and try to work that way, but then unless you’re working on the edges, you won’t see the numbers you’re supposed to be filling in so it’s really hard to work. First, once the puzzles get big, the squares get TINY. Picross was great, Picross 3D I really couldn’t get into, Color Cross is good but has four major flaws. The nice thing is that you can press Select to save your puzzle and resume it another day, so maybe I’ll peck slowly away at each one in turn every other day or so.Īll in all it’s a good game. Pshaw, as if I’m going to spend my time stressing out over these. You open up a puzzle and there’s like 7 different colors and all the graphs go 1 1 1 1 1 1, 1 2 1, 1 1 3 1, etc. I looked them up and down, turned them round and round and still couldn’t figure out what they were supposed to be.Īs with Picross, I gave up on Color Cross once the puzzles got too complex. That was only some of the pictures, though. And in practice, some of the pictures look great! I used to cross-stitch back in my youth (ahem), and I was often tempted to pull out out a piece of graph paper and record some of the patterns. In principle, this allows you to create more vivid and more complex patterns than regular Picross can provide. There’s a panel on the side of the touchscreen that lets you cycle between colors, very cool. Instead of blanks and Xs, each space has to be filled with a certain color. I hate racking my brains for hours only to get the answer wrong anyway. I quit once the puzzles got too hard, though. I liked uncovering each picture in turn, unlocking new puzzles and new categories as I went along. It was simple, fun, interesting and logical. A while ago, however, I was talked into trying Picross and I loved it. Puzzle games are another genre of games I’m bad at, which is why you won’t see too many posts about them on this blog. Oww, my fingers! My wrist! My elbows! They hurt! Damn you, stupidly addictive and frustrating game!!

Colorcross 3d