The graphics in Picross games have always been very simple, and this one's no exception, but we can't really fault it for that. Japanese puzzles is kind of anxiety games, cross latters and stitch game cross it.
Of course, problems like this are always fixable with any form of music player nearby, but we just can't imagine why the developers would leave out something that was part of the game before: the DSiWare version is not very big in terms of block size, so they could've easily increased it a little and added some tunes. There's only one real problem with the game, but it's a glaring one – despite the original title featuring background music at all times, this game is completely devoid of it. As said before, the puzzles are not all taken from the original game, so if you've played it before you can easily buy this one as well. Clearing the whole set obviously lets you see the whole image, but there's no further extras attached.Īs the retail title featured 150 puzzles, that means you've got almost half a full-price game here for just 500 Nintendo Points: quite a steal, we think.
For each puzzle in one set you'll clear, you'll unlock one ninth of a larger, real-life photo of an animal. Animal Color Cross features 72 puzzles divided up over 8 puzzle sets (five of which have to be unlocked, which goes rather fast), each being based on one particular region of the world (North America, Europe, Asia, etc.) and featuring fitting puzzle solutions. The different colours are about the only real gameplay change from Nintendo's Picross games and other similar titles.