Welcome to our review of Picross S3, the newest entry in the Picross S series and this one adds a brand new game style!
The eagerly anticipated Color Picross from the Picross S Series is finally here! Complete color illustrations using colorful hint numbers! This is the 3rd Picross S Series on the Nintendo Switch! In addition to the three usual game modes, Picross, Mega Picross, and Clip Picross, they’ve added an all-new Color Picross mode!
In this new mode, the rules are the same as normal Picross, but now you must complete color illustrations by filling in the correct squares with their corresponding hint number color. The controls are the same as normal Picross, so even if it’s your first time, it’ll be easy to play! Tons of puzzles await you! With a total of 300 Picross and Mega Picross puzzles, 150 Clip Picross piece puzzles, and 30 Color Picross puzzles, that’s a grand total of 480 puzzles!
Picross is a picture crossword puzzle game where you follow hint number to complete a picture. With simple, easy-to-follow rules, it’s a game anyone can play! Picross holds a dear place among my favorite puzzle games and even without the brand new colour mode, I would have loved to add the newest installment to my collection!
The principle of the game is still the same. Figure out where the squares are to be colored black and form the image behind the puzzle. Basic maths and elimination all the way! If this is your first rodeo with the Picross series, prepare to have a ton of fun with something most of us hated back in school! None other than Mathematics!
Every few puzzles, you still free up bonus levels for the big puzzles in Clip Picross. There is also still the option to play Mega Picross, a much more intense version of the game. Nothing really changed there, so it was easy to replay them as a lover of the series, but the main addition, that needs some more explaining.
The brand new color mode, which reminds me of Piczle Colors, is a great new addition to the game. So on top of the regular elimination game, you need to color match the horizontal and vertical lines as well. This is far more intriguing as it adds a whole new level to the game.
Before, it was all just basic maths but now, the colors can make it so much easier but at the same time so much harder too. So you can just look at the colors to make certain matches happen, especially for fewly present colors, like if you have two white colored blocks on the left, you just need to easily match them to their vertical counterparts.
At the same time, this can be harder to play, as you have more matches to make, it definitely becomes much more intense to find out, but there are the numbers to assist you and you will breeze through the levels with ease!
In conclusion, Picross as a series is one of the very best puzzle games. It guarantees a great puzzling experience and will keep you entertained the entire time. This S3 version comes with a bonus game system and while it is not expansive, it does add a new layer of puzzle games. I have always loved Picross and still do.
For my rating, I am going all out with a 9.5. Not a perfect score, because that is kept for the very best of puzzle games, like the previously released Boxboy games, but it is incredibly fun and it would have scored more if we did have scores that were not divided up to halves. I did decide not to go for the upward rounding because and this is my sole gripe with the series, the music annoyed me. I turned it off and listened to Queen while playing.
A very silly remark to make and I know it, but the music really made me round down instead of up!
