Now that I have 100% Pokemon Picross, I'll share my thoughts on this game

First things first, this is a Free to Play game on the 3DS. You basically need to have picrites (in game currency) to do basically anything. Want to play? Well, then filling a square each requires energy and they take 1 minute to recharge. 1 minute may seem like very little, but keep in mind that puzzles are 10x10 so they require around 60 squares to fill out, assuming you don't make any mistakes. You can quick recharge with picrites but that costs money. Unlocking new zones costs a lot of picrites, 100 and constantly increases each time you unlock a new one. Finally, there is the Alt World and Mega Pencil that requires 300 and 500 picrites to unlock. So in order to do any of the mega evolution puzzles, you need to save up before you can even attempt them. Pokemon also need time to recharge after using their abilities, but I will get into that a bit later. Luckily, there are daily challenges that will eventually give you 10 picrites upon completing within the time limit, so there is still a free way to beat this game.

Picross is a puzzle based game, where there are numbers that give you hints in how exactly to fill out each row and column. I won’t go into the details since it’s hard to explain, as I didn’t fully understand the tips and tricks they teach you in the tutorial until playing it quite a bit. It’s a really simple mechanic, but it nets a lot of puzzles to go through. There is a lot of content in this game too, with 30 zones to unlock and about 300 pokemon to unlock. With the Alt World, the same puzzles get doubled so you have about 600 stages to play. It begins with 10x10 panels, and later moves up to 15x15 and finally 15x20 panels. Games can be completed quickly so it’s a good game for small bursts or when you have a few minutes extra. Each stage will also have a list of missions where completing them will give you more picrites

Each Pokemon stage you complete, you will capture that Pokemon and be able to use their abilities to help you with other puzzles. There are 5 main types of abilities: revealing abilities that reveal panels for you, slowing time and freezing time abilities, autofixing abilities and the blue force abilities which tell you what rows and columns have for sure panels you can fill in or cancel out. Pokemon also come in sizes so some Pokemon will not be able to used on the 15x15 puzzles since they are too small. After you use their abilities, they will have a cooling time before you can use them again, which typically ranges from 1 hour to 24 or 30 hours for the legendary Pokemon

The main issue is, of course that it is Free to Play. You are constantly running out of picrites because it takes a lot to move on to the next area. Despite each stage giving you a few picrites when you win, it still takes a long time to get enough picrites to move to the next area, so I am constantly waiting with nothing to do in the game. You quickly run out of energy after one or two puzzles and will have to wait. Some missions require certain Pokemon to be used and they are unlocked later in the game so you can’t get them all in one go. You will miss out on all the Mega evolutions because it costs 500 to unlock so those will have to be skipped for later too. Of course, you could buy picrites from the eShop, but those are crazy expensive..

Luckily, the final upgrade of energy gives you unlimited energy so you will not have to worry about that, but upgrades require picrites too. After unlocking the Alt World, there is never a shortage of stages stop play. Also, there is a trick into getting unlimited picrites by messing around with the 3DS clock to get the dailies over and over.

tl;dr: 8/10

A fun game that I will recommend to those who likes puzzle games. Even if you don’t, you can still try it out for free :p

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Previous Review: Bravely Default

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=7897427

Second match of round 1 of the Ultimate Pokemon tourney and its a tough one: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221132

This must all be part of their shady scheme! They know people like things whole and complete, so those who try to pay just the normal $40 will be extremely tempted to shell out more rather than settle with half a game. I'll never agree with the way they handled things, but between this and Color Splash it's the lesser of Intelligent System's two evils imo.

Which path did ya get and how far are ya? I'm in Chapter 16 of Conquest playing on Hard/Classic, and though I didn't actually have a choice, I think I woulda sided with Nohr still even if I did, but I'll wait until I play Hoshido's path before giving the verdict on which faction I like better overall.

I've beaten Birthright and am on Conquest at the moment. On chapter 11 (?) where you have to defend against Takumi and the moat dries out on like turn 6. Only playing on normal/classic, but my character got crit from a 2% and then hit directly after from a 40% chance hit so I had to restart.

I put the game on hold at the moment for the now completed Pokemon Picross and Final Fantasy Explorers. Will go back to it soon..

At the moment, I feel the Noir storyline seems more interesting, as the Hoshido one is pretty typical for a FE game, though I will need to beat all 3 routes before I can confirm. Will probably write a review for this game when that's done too :/

The splitting of routes still annoy me a lot but I'll post my full thoughts about that in the review :p

Yet you seem pretty calm about that, how!? Does nothing set you off? I just realized I've never seen you angry or upset in any capacity, not even after the many times I've been a jerkface! I don't mean enough to cry or break your 3DS in half, but when I had to restart an entire long chapter after the boss crit from 6%, I definitely let out a few swears hehe. I couldn't complain too much though, since in that chapter where you get Azura I had extremely low odds that were in my favor. All my units had 60% or less accuracy against the boss and most couldn't do much damage. I really had no idea what to do so I just banked on Arthur with his 12% crit chance despite only 42% accuracy... and he actually got it! My most epic moment so far, and thank the gods for it since I don't know if I woulda beaten that chapter otherwise!

@Last sentence: I see what you did there!

On the contrary, since I had great level ups, I didn't want to restart the chapter and put it to the side and haven't played it ever since. That chapter is pretty difficult since a lot of things can go wrong which made me put it off as well. :D

I can get pretty angry and upset, though I try to remain calm about it.. I mean, you wouldn't want to see me mad ;)

Ah I feel ya, no really I do as I just spent two hours on Chapter 17 getting great level ups, only to now have to start all over due to a 6% critical...

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Ahem, excuse me. I do have to admitt I would be interested in seeing a new side of you, not that I would ever intentionally try to get you that way of course!

So, uh, Colour Splash uses different washing machine models in the US and PAL versions...

https://twitter.com/GoileNintentoad/status/785136440699125760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

ZOMG Censorship

Does anyone know if a New 3DS can be charged with a Vita (slim model) charger?

Pretty random, not sure if there is any significance at all? More people in America use white coloured washing machines?

No, the n3DS uses the same charger as the 3DS/XL/2DS and are not the same as the Vita

iirc, the Vita charger is the same as an android phone charger?