Figured out Mega Picross

I’ve always ignored the “Mega Picross” sections of the Picross games I played, but after playing Sanrio Characters Picross, I thought I would give those puzzles one last try. I’d always found the explanations too complicated to understand, but once I took my time and worked through the tutorial puzzle along with the instructions, huh, […]

Suffering from gamer’s block

Gamer’s block is when you have a lot of games on your backlog but you don’t feel like playing any of them. And at the same time, nothing new is attracting you. And yet you don’t want to quit playing games either. Last time I experienced this, I solved it through “No Game November,” which […]

Pyramid Solitaire Saga review – Annoying gimmicks get in the way of fun

Instead of jumping into another RPG after Demon Gaze II, I’ve been playing Pyramid Solitaire Saga for the past couple of days. It’s another prettyfied puzzle game from King, makers of Candy Crush Saga, Farm Heroes Saga and many similar time-wasters. And these games all share one thing in common: they all start out really […]

Pokemon Picross sucks and my 3DS charger stopped working again

Why Pokemon Picross sucks Because it’s a puzzle game on a stamina system. Every move you makes consumes one point of stamina. And each stamina point takes a whole minute (!) to refill. An allegedly free game with a very heavy pay-to-play component. You need game currency to unlock stages, but it’s incredibly hard to […]

Played nothing but Picross for a while, but I’m ready to play other stuff now

I played loads of Picross! Played as much of e through e6 as I could, saving e7 and e8 for a nice long weekend. Instead my focus has turned to Picross 3D Round 2, which is smoother to play than the original in many ways, but also quite frustrating because you have to juggle two […]