Armitage Shanks
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Yep yep.
I think the only one I've not played is the freebie Mario-themed one on 3DS (?) that was part of a Club Mario thing, I think.... Much to my eternal chagrin.
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I think the only one I've not played is the freebie Mario-themed one on 3DS (?) that was part of a Club Mario thing, I think.... Much to my eternal chagrin.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
What's up with the puzzles not moving when you complete them? Lame.
fabricated backlash
Member
It's coming out later in europe.
The first is in the WiiU eshop.
GiantBreadbug
Member
Yeah I was kinda bummed about this as well. Still can't complain cuz the game is so goddang good
orthodoxy1095
Banned
It really is good, but even by the time the credits rolled I was still bummed about no animations
A Link to the Past
Banned
It's a good game, but I'm a Scrooge. It got terribly boring near the end where every puzzle takes like a month to clear.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Are the timed puzzles nerfed or something ? even on hard I never feel like Im running out of time. They were a serious challenge in the first game IIRC
Yes, waiting for the release here...
So I can buy the first one for 3DS in the WiiU eshop?
Haha. This is Nintendo. It would make too much sense to offer digital versions of DS games. If you want Picross 3D on your 3DS, you can only buy the retail card.
Picross 3D: Round 2 will be available on eShop and at retail for 34.99€. Release is December 2.
blackMamba1187
Member
I think I am done with the game for the time being. Still need to get zero strikes on every hard puzzle, but I am quite happy with all rainbow gems. All told I have put over 100 hours into the game, and it is one of my favorite games of the year.
Previously I had limited exposure to picross (pokemon), and zero exposure to picross 3d. Great game.
Previously I had limited exposure to picross (pokemon), and zero exposure to picross 3d. Great game.
blackMamba1187
Member
Such a good surprise. I forgot I still have to get rainbow gems on the amiibo puzzles, so...yay for me!
AcademicSaucer
Member
I've been playing the first Picross 3d and it's hard to go back, the amount of qol things they have done in 2nd Round are really noticeable.
Daniel Jackson
Member
The finished puzzle animations are cool though, it's a nice little extra
Bananastand
Member
This finally comes out this week in Europe. I'm excited for more Picross!
One Foul Note
Member
Does anyone know if progress made in the demo carries over to the full game? It is hardly the biggest problem in the world but I don't want to sit through the slow tutorial all over again. But anyway, still very hyped for this release to finally reach European shores.
Living the Dream
Member
Yup. Absolutely love it. I'm on puzzle group 50!
One Foul Note
Member
The marker is a way of reminding yourself if a column or row can only be of one colour. So if you have lets say a row of blocks with a orange 3 on the side you know that all these blocks in the row are either going to be coloured orange (in a 3 adjacent pattern) or will be removed. But the other important thing you know is none of these blocks are going to be blue, so you can mark the entire row with the orange marker to inform yourself in the future that if you are dealing with a column that perhaps intersects this row and that column in question has blue blocks on it then none of the blocks will intersect directly with the marked row.
It isn't really easy to explain with words given the visual nature of the game, but I am sure you will get the point of the marking tool if you redo the tutorial.
Living the Dream
Member
I went back to Picross 3D and holy cow is Round 2 so much more amazing
Yeah, the two color thing really complicates matters. It's a lot more interesting.
Incredible music too.
Living the Dream
Member
Am I crazy or is there a similar tone between this and kingdom hearts?
Caleranatior
Neo Member
Looking forward to finally getting this here in Tier 2 Land tomorrow, judging by the demo it seems like they've made some great improvements.
It's also currently ÂŁ24 on Amazon UK (or ÂŁ22 if you have Prime) if anyone was put off by the ÂŁ30 RRP.
It's also currently ÂŁ24 on Amazon UK (or ÂŁ22 if you have Prime) if anyone was put off by the ÂŁ30 RRP.
Thanks for the heads up!
illusionary
Member
Yeah, that looks to be the best price that I can' find at the moment too (matched by Tesco)...I'm just trying to decide whether it's a game likely ti hold its value as often is the case with Nintendo, or whether it's likely to drop much if we wait. I'm leaning toward the former.
Edit: ÂŁ20.83 via Flubit - that'll do nicely!
hosannainexcelsis
Member
If you look at the three possibilities for where the one blue tile can go, the right-most 1 must be colored yellow in all of them and so can be filled in.
Yikes! That's a tough one. I'm struggling to get my head round that even after you've explained it! Thanks for the help.
I... Don't get it.
The blue can occupy any of the unmarked spaces.
In each case, the right most marked yellow 1 square must be colored yellow, no matter how the yellow circled 6 is split.
Got it. Deep. I struggled at this point too, and this is a REALLY early puzzle. The addition of colouring makes the game so much more complicated. I love it.
While the logic added by the colors is nice I really don't like what it does to the interface. I've lot count of how many errors I've made because I selected the wrong tool, mistook an orange number for faded (i.e. no blocks left to color) or mixed up circle and square (or otherwise misread numbers) because a number pair makes them so small.
I still don't get it.
Anyway, I've only played the demo, picked up the cart today. Was there a cart release for US or Japan?
I was wrong, ooops! Rusty :/
Tathanen
Get Inside Her!
This is not correct. A circle means two groups, it does NOT require the blue 1 to be in between the groups. Any of the three uncolored squares could be the blue one.
Booo this man, you're right
Fixed, the colored yellow six must be split into 2 groups, but doesn't have to have a blue in-between (and I'm too lazy to fix the fact that I don't have a step 2 now)
Booo this man, you're right
Fixed, the colored yellow six must be split into 2 groups, but doesn't have to have a blue in-between (and I'm too lazy to fix the fact that I don't have a step 2 now)
Ah, I see. I misread the original explanation. I thought they meant he VERY most right cube must be yellow, but they meant only the very right yellow "1". I read it as "the right most one".
Cheers.
Is there really a point to the difficulties besides self moderation?
Like medium seems ok, but if I want to get the higher jewels I kind f have to finish on hard,right? But what's stopping me from finding the solution then "rushing" and just cheating on hard to get the jewel later?
What did people play on here?
Is it a typical thing to just play on medium then go back do it all again on hard?
Like medium seems ok, but if I want to get the higher jewels I kind f have to finish on hard,right? But what's stopping me from finding the solution then "rushing" and just cheating on hard to get the jewel later?
What did people play on here?
Is it a typical thing to just play on medium then go back do it all again on hard?
I'm playing through for the first time now on Hard. It seemed like the sensible choice, seeing as I'm a Picross veteran.
Guess so.
One thing I never liked about picross 3D round 1 compared to picross 2d was thstnit always seemed more like a hunt for the clues you missed rather than any logic inferences.
Medium so far on round 2 is much like that too. Hard seems to favour some more logic required. Which is fine by me. I figured I'd sort of breeze through on medium and go back and get them on hard for the max jewels? Thereby getting more value out of each puzzle? Or would that just be wasting my time and I should just go straight to hard?
Armitage Shanks
Member
There are a tonne of puzzles. Sure, you could get more out of them by playing them twice, but I went straight to hard and got a great experience out of the whole thing. It's only towards the latter books that it becomes a REAL challenge. Even on hard it wasn't really that taxing.
I'm just mindlessly going through on medium at the moment. See how I go.
Just wondering how people approach the puzzles when you make an accident, and it's NOT a strike. DO you just count your lucky stars and keep going? I know all puzzles are solvable by logic alone, and I feel I need to do it logically...
On a similar note, does anyone do something like you kind of a strong hunch something is a certain colour, and try to paint it anyway, without using the logic clues? Like you're pretty darned sure, like using the symmetry of the revealing model for instance. Or do you insist on using only the logic?
Armitage Shanks
Member
Later puzzles get very large and involved, so when I made the occasional happy mistakes, especially with my "no mistakes" run (I would restart a puzzle after making a mistake) I'd just thank my lucky stars.
You certainly start seeing patterns more easily the longer you play. Certain hint rows will be obvious even without tagging and you start getting quite good at quickly smashing blocks. And sure, sometimes I'd be working on something where a few errant blocks WAY outside the model area were left and were obvious junk and I'd remove them. Only really tripped me up a couple of times.
Don't sweat it so much.
Later puzzles get very large and involved, so when I made the occasional happy mistakes, especially with my "no mistakes" run (I would restart a puzzle after making a mistake) I'd just thank my lucky stars.
You certainly start seeing patterns more easily the longer you play. Certain hint rows will be obvious even without tagging and you start getting quite good at quickly smashing blocks. And sure, sometimes I'd be working on something where a few errant blocks WAY outside the model area were left and were obvious junk and I'd remove them. Only really tripped me up a couple of times.
Don't sweat it so much.
I'm not really sweating it. Just curious how others play. I don't care so much for making mistakes but I do like using strictly the logic to solve it.