There are two kinds of video games I like to play after I need to calm down, or proper earlier than I am going to mattress: Farming sims and puzzle video games. Particularly, Harvest Moon and Picross. I’m unsure if it’s the stress-free music or the “no stress” gameplay, however its fairly cathartic for me after an extended day. So, you possibly can think about how hyped I used to be after I stumbled upon a recreation that mixed each of these items. Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons is a themed Picross recreation that includes puzzles, music, and different Story of Seasons aesthetics. However is it a recreation particularly for SOS followers, or one thing everybody can get pleasure from? Let’s have a look.
In the event you’re unfamiliar with how Picross video games work, every puzzle begins with an empty grid of squares, with a set of numbers operating alongside the highest and left-side. When you fill within the appropriate squares within the grid, the completed product will reveal an image.
On this case, the photographs are all issues from the Story of Seasons video games, like instruments, gadgets, characters, animals, and buildings. As you full puzzles, you’ll discover your farm start to develop. You’ll be able to see your farm within the background of the primary screens, with the 2 most important characters continually working. It’s only a primary view which you can’t actually do something with. In the event you full a puzzle that finally ends up being a hen, for instance, then chickens will seem in your farm. Similar with cows, canines—you get it. It will have been neat to have the ability to work together with it just a little extra although.
Songs from the video games play within the background, and the sound results are from the Story of Seasons video games, as nicely. It’s just a little nostalgic when you’ve performed any of the Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons video games and also you hear a well-known tune taking part in. In the event you press pause throughout a puzzle it can inform you the tune title and the sport it’s from. You’ll be able to regulate the sound results and music , thank goodness. As nostalgic as a few of these songs are, they will get just a little repetitive.
The puzzle display is primary, like most Picross video games. You don’t need a bunch of distractions whilst you’re counting. The colours and songs within the puzzles will change with every season. Winter is essentially the most boring time of yr… as normal.
So far as the variety of puzzles go in Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons, there are a whopping 350 ranges to finish and 5 collage puzzles.
Collage puzzles are a lot greater and are damaged down into a number of, smaller puzzles. When all of them are accomplished they may type one large image. You positively get your cash’s value so far as content material goes. There are additionally little achievement badges you get for finishing sure teams of puzzles. When you’ve completed all of them, you can begin once more.
I get pleasure from Picross puzzles, however for some cause they’re extra enjoyable once they’re themed—as with the Legend of Zelda Picross recreation that was on the 3DS, or Mario’s Picross on the Gameboy. Right here, you’re getting a standard Picross recreation with a Story of Seasons theme, sort of just like the monopoly board recreation and the way there are 1,000 totally different themes you possibly can select from.
So, when you’re a Picross fan, you’ll get pleasure from this recreation. And when you’re a Story of Seasons / Picross fan, you’ll actually get pleasure from this recreation. In the event you’re unfamiliar with Picross, I extremely advocate attempting it out, particularly when you like puzzles or pixel artwork. It could possibly appear intimidating, however, when you get the cling of it, it’s fairly addictive.
