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My Nintendo Picross: Zelda TP leaked (March 31st)
- Thread starter kulapik
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Gameboy415
Member
Oh man, I LOVE Picross games so I hope this is for real! 
I played both of the Club Nintendo Picross games on my JP 3DS and they were great!
It's a shame they were never released outside of Club Nintendo Japan...
I played both of the Club Nintendo Picross games on my JP 3DS and they were great!
It's a shame they were never released outside of Club Nintendo Japan...
A Link to the Past
Banned
It takes an unreasonably large amount of time to get all of the content. The game isn't designed to be completed without paying money.
toythatkills
Member
It takes an unreasonably large amount of time for you personally, for the way I play it's fine. Obviously it's designed to have people pay money but that's true of basically all video games, it's not really a criticism.
Rodney McKay
Member
There are enough good F2P games (and cheap paid games) out there that actually respect the player's time and money that they idea of giving more of either to Pokemon Picross is kinda laughable. For the amount of money it takes to unlock all of Pokemon Picross ($25), you can get about 4 of the Picross E games on the eshop that EACH have about the same if not more content.
Or if you really want Picross for free and you have a phone you could get Hungry Cat Picross (only $2 if you want to remove the non obtrusive ads) or Paint It Back (which I think you need to pay $3 for to unlock the whole thing). I do like the Pokemon theme and the optional challenges that the game has, but at a certain point it just wasn't worth grinding the boring daily challenge to get more.
Hopefully this Zelda Picross will be a full game reward on My Nintendo and it won't have any of the F2P stuff in it at all.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Oh my god, My Nintendo just eclipsed Club Nintendo
instantly. I LOVE Jupiter's Picross games.
(well, non-JP Club Nintendo)
A Link to the Past
Banned
As has been stated, not all F2P games are designed to wrest money from your wallets. So yes, it's a valid criticism.
It's probably a reward, so none of the above.
Davey Cakes
Member
Nothing wrong with more Picross. I've been enjoying Pokemon Picross and haven't spent a cent.
The Illiterati
Member
What is this My Nintendo thing? I hope this doesn't require purchase of Twilight Princess.
I really hope this is the full game and not anything like Pokemon Picross. I'm a massive Picross fan and have beaten every damn game released in the US, including both Color Cross games. However, I couldn't bring myself to play much of Pokemon Picross. I hated the super powers crap and the F2P crap. Just give me the full game right away.
ladyluthien
Member
I am always excited for more picross. Like the idea of giving it as a reward, if that's what it is for sure.
Claude Augario
Member
Doing training for weeks to unlock any feature is an unreasonably large amount of time.
Small Mailman
Member
I wish I knew how to play Picross still!
Okay, this will get me to sign up early
Even then I'm at a hundred hours and haven't made it to 100% completion so it's similar value to the e-series if you want to go for that
dreampeppers99
Member
Nintendo now days
But they don't leak a single picture of zelda wii u
But they don't leak a single picture of zelda wii u
ps: this is a pipe (leaking)
clay_ghost
Member
I am pretty sure Nintendo sent all the ninjas to the NX Hq now.
toythatkills
Member
I'm not saying $30 is good value for the game, in fact I specifically said it wasn't.
But I don't agree with this argument about "respecting the player's time" because I don't think the game disrespects it. It takes a long time to unlock everything in weeks and months, but you're only actually asked to play for 1-2 minutes per day to achieve this, and partake in a challenge which is actually fun (for me, personally, anyway). Over a year that's a time investment of 6-10 hours probably, which is not a staggering amount of time to unlock all the content in a video game.
I'm not gonna sit here and say it's a perfect monetisation model, but the game had to be monetised (it's a game, after all) and I don't have an issue with the way it was done. I feel perfectly capable of seeing all the content having spent less on it than I would an e-series game.
Wowfunhappy
Member
This looks like a bad Photoshop. Like, a really bad Photoshop. The type of Photoshop I might throw together in 5 minutes if I wasn't trying very hard.
Heck, forget I could probably do it in MS Paint if I felt so inclined to.
How is this a real screenshot?
OrbitalBeard
Member
It's a My Nintendo reward. It's probably not something that took much time or money to develop.
Considering how it was found (read the OP), it seems pretty likely to be real.
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Deleted member 465307
Unconfirmed Member
I really want to know how this will be given to My Nintendo users. I bought a physical copy of TPHD, so I hope it isn't directly tied to having the game. Since Nintendo is trying to sell the Midna and Wolf Link amiibo, I doubt they would split their focus with this reward.
I hope this will be a bonus for signing up by March 31 or something.
I hope this will be a bonus for signing up by March 31 or something.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Or it could just be a reward you redeem with My Nintendo coins. It might not be tied to a specific purchase.
Sorry, what's your problem?
lmcontaldi
Neo Member
For what it's worth, after spending $30 in microtransactions, the entire game unlocked. So the F2P thing worked entirely in your favor.
If you don't play it a lot or don't like it? You don't spend anything.
If you love it and plan on buying microtransactions? You hit the $30 limit unlocking all content, as if it were a normal paid game.
A Link to the Past
Banned
I'm really excited for Picross 3D 2, since it gets rid of one of my least favourite parts about it (that you need to clear out all of the 0's to begin with).
Thatoneguy64
Member
Well, that just uncovers the actual problem with Pokemon Picross: That it's a bad value as a Picross game.
For $30 you get 300~ puzzles.
Every Picross e game has 150 puzzles for $6.
For $30 you can get 300 Pokemon puzzles or 750 puzzles in the first five Picross e games.
Is that how that works? If I spend $30, I don't have to worry about super powers or any garbage like that?
A Link to the Past
Banned
To clarify, that's 300 puzzles counting the alter world stuff right?
toythatkills
Member
You're just totally ignoring that you can also get 300 puzzles for nothing, or almost any amount in between. It's not good or bad value by itself, it depends what each individual player puts in.
Pennywise83
Banned
1. $30 is actually a lot for the contents it has. I mean, it would be the most expensive digital game on the eShop, outside retail games that are only-digital in Western countries;
2. The actual monetization scheme is awful in that, ij order to earn in-game currencies, you are forced to use Pokémon abilities and distort the game difficulty.
3. The game is also awful in how every aspect is behind paywalls. There's content locking ON TOP OF time charging bar that can be filled using in-game currencies.
4. How currencies can be bought is also worrying because once you bought a specifics currency bundle, this is no more available, therefore the game forces you to spend as it wants (that's my experience at least).
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I'm uh... I'm struggling to find the issue here...? Or what this even means?
"A popular handheld puzzle series getting a themed version as a free gift through a rewards service. Sigh, that Nintendo!" ...?
tonyh24613
Member
I thought the important thing about this news is not picross games are good or bad. It's about that My Nintendo service may start on March 31. Right?
Wrestlemania
Banned
Nope. I think there's over 600 puzzles including alt world.
toythatkills
Member
How many mural puzzles are there as well, 200?
Wrestlemania
Banned
128. But they aren't all worth a full puzzle since most are ridiculously easy.
The game definitely has a lot of content and I'd definitely have felt I've got my monies worth for $30. As it stands I've actually paid about $16 and managed to unlock everything other than the mega pencil. And actually I've kind of messes up there by going for that last since you can earn around 380 one you unlocked that, so those will be going towards nothing.
humansewer
Neo Member
while I am on the side that some of the microtransaction stuff in pokemon picross was gross, i had fun with it and look forwards to any excuse to try out more picross
This does give me more hope for this 'my nintendo' thing surpassing club nintendo
This does give me more hope for this 'my nintendo' thing surpassing club nintendo
toythatkills
Member
Ah, 8x8 not 10x10, I couldn't remember. But yeah, that's a fair comment, just thought it worth including a mention of them at least!
This is a the problem with GAF sometimes, the hyperbole is ridiculous. Obviously it's pretty clear by now I don't really have an issue with the way Pokémon Picross has been monetised but calling it "gross" is just absurd when you consider the other shit that happens in videogames.
Gross would be microtransactions in a game you already paid for. Gross would be changing the game after release to add or encourage microtransactions. Gross would be multiplayer games where you can only be competitive if you buy microtransactions. Gross would be ruining the balance of a game to encourage people to pay. Gross would be anything that adversely affects the actual gameplay so a player feels like they can only complete it if they pay. Gross would be claiming your game is "free" but paywalling specific content.
All Pokémon Picross does is ask you to wait a little while. It sucks if you're impatient, but it's hardly "gross." In fact, it does the one specific thing that people ALWAYS ask for in free-to-play threads, "I wish I could just pay once and unlock everything."
SomethingInTheSea
Member
It depends how much you want to play, I'm still playing the Pokemon one and am about half way through and haven't spent anything. I do the daily challenges and every so often get a burst of new content when a section opens up. It's enough to keep me entertained every day, plus with the Zelda one too I'll be able to switch between the two.
I'd rather have something that was fun every day for a whole year than spend the money and blast through the whole game in one week!
humansewer
Neo Member
Yeah, obviously plenty of other games are worse, but bad is still bad, and I'd rather not just let my standards slip. Every f2p game with a 'three games and then wait" function is just unbearable to me. It takes something fun and interrupts it constantly to ask for more money. I'd rather pay upfront then have a game constantly nagging me.
toythatkills
Member
But you can.
Wrestlemania
Banned
You can!
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
That's what I think is the big news. Firmware updates will be rolled out, (only) digital loyalty rewards will return, and Miitomo will probably release, this is huge news.
Date could change though.