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, […]
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 […]
I used to be a massive Harvest Moon fan long ago. So long ago that most readers probably don’t know it, seeing as I started this blog in the twilight of my farming game career. I haven’t played one since I tried Harvest Moon: A New Beginning four years ago, and even that didn’t really […]
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 […]
I should probably say a few words about how sweet it feels to get revenge, but after all these months I didn’t feel anything. Fighting and training to get strong enough to beat your old nemesis is actually a boring pain in the neck. It’s much cooler in kungfu movies than in real life. And […]