Picross DS (Formally: "Why do you all not care?")

[downfall]

http://cgi.ebay.com/PICROSS-NINTENDO-DS-Lite-NDS-JAPAN_W0QQitemZ200073676768QQihZ010QQcategoryZ6205 3QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Seriously?

Why has this not been mentioned?

You're all terrible, terrible people, because this is completely my dream Nintendo DS game, as it should be yours. This should be all the rage. I'm disappointed. You call yourselves gamers? Hah.

[Kroogah]

Whoa wait what?

HOLY SHIT MUST BUY

THIS IS WHAT I WAS HOPING POLARIUM WAS

[downfall]

Whoa wait what?

HOLY SHIT MUST BUY

THIS IS WHAT I WAS HOPING POLARIUM WAS

Exactly.

Who dropped the ball on this one?

[FAN8228]

buying....buying.....buying....bought! :D

[qbertandernie]

im told by importer friends it is all you hope it will be. buy away!!

[FAN8228]

im told by importer friends it is all you hope it will be. buy away!!

my dreams!... they will come true!

[sisko]

Holy crap.

Greatest. Logic. Puzzler. Ever.

I'll probably be importing this. Thanks for the heads up.

[DigitalSpace]

/me says "meh," continues browsing porn

Seriously though, Picross seems to be like Earthbound to Nintendo. Nintendo released one title, and despite gaining a cult fanbase, they won't give future releases a shot in the US. It's a shame.

[Kitsune Sniper]

The game hasn't been released yet... and it's from Hong Kong.

No thank you.

[le geek]

While we're waiting for Picross...

Several "Oekaki" style games have already been released for DS
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1111781&highlight=oekaki#post1111781

I'm hoping Picross gets a US release...

Cheers,
Ben

[skaar]

Why the raging hard-on for this game?

[Xander]

Same question

[downfall]

Yeah, as far as I can tell, the game was released last week. Even Play-Asia has it in stock. I wasn't suggesting you should buy it from that ebay auction - it was just a point of reference.

And if you don't understand the hard-on for Picross, then you've never played Picross. I will suggest that.

[FAN8228]

you have to play it to understand the hard on LOL

[theshizzle3000]

Where can you get information about the game at?

[FAN8228]

Where can you get information about the game at?

http://www.dsfanboy.com/2007/01/19/take-a-peek-at-picross/

check it out

[theshizzle3000]

Seems interesting I might check it out. I had no idea the DS was region free.

[gamegirl79]

I'm all over this like flies on poo. Would be nice if it got a US release...

[Habeeb Hamusta]

I've never played picross so I can't buy this until i'm sure i'd like it. Any other picross games you guys suggest that are much cheaper and easier to get ahold of....to give me an idea of what picross is?

[le geek]

I've never played picross so I can't buy this until i'm sure i'd like it. Any other picross games you guys suggest that are much cheaper and easier to get ahold of....to give me an idea of what picross is?

It's the same game as Picture Puzzle on NGPC. But the Nintendo Picross games do have a Nintendo attention to detail. The only US release was Mario Picross on B+W Gameboy. There were Japan Gameboy and Super Famicom sequels.

Does anyone know of DS Picross will support color Picross puzzles? DS Puzzler: NumPlay Fan & Oekaki Logic - The import DS Oekaki (picross) game I picked up - has hit or miss puzzles (sometime I'm not sure what I'm looking at after solving them). But it does have 500 puzzles and many of them are multicolor which is pretty cool...

Cheers,
Ben

[Habeeb Hamusta]

Alright yay.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Why don't you guys just print these things out off the Internet or something rather than waiting for Nintendo to release a game for the DS? There's millions of Picross-style puzzles to be found on the Internet.


...word is bondage...

[Ed Oscuro]

Still not caring. Also, that DS Fanboy site didn't tell me what my non-DS-loving, penny-pinching, shmup-playing self would like about the game, so I still really don't know what's going on. It's a puzzle game with lines, that's all I know.

[DigitalSpace]

Why don't you guys just print these things out off the Internet or something rather than waiting for Nintendo to release a game for the DS? There's millions of Picross-style puzzles to be found on the Internet.


...word is bondage...

But they're not from Nintendo, so they automatically suck.

(Just kidding, though if you look around the internet long enough you'll find someone who says the same thing and isn't. </captain obvious>)

[smork]

It's not even the first Picross game for the DS. One of the Japanese Sudoku games had a Picross mode. My buddy was playing it all summer...

[davidbrit2]

Hopefully this will be awesome, because all the other DS Picross games I've played were pretty underwhelming (mostly because of really bad interface design).

[Felixthegamer]

Why don't you guys just print these things out off the Internet or something rather than waiting for Nintendo to release a game for the DS? There's millions of Picross-style puzzles to be found on the Internet.


...word is bondage...

Because most of us on this board are video gamers and collectors and not so much collectors of internet Picross-style puzzles

[NE146]

LOL

Anyway, for those who do care, the english version is out ;)

[Oobgarm]

http://www.dsfanboy.com/2007/05/17/more-evidence-of-a-us-release-for-picross-ds/

[Buyatari]

At first I thought the poster was kidding. You people are really into this game? What is it? It looks like a virtual lite brite?

[NE146]

At first I thought the poster was kidding. You people are really into this game? What is it? It looks like a virtual lite brite?

Holy crap man.. It's an awesome logic puzzle game where you use clues to draw a picture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picross). It starts out simple then it gets a lot more bigger and detailed as you get better


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Paint_by_numbers_Animation.gif/250px-Paint_by_numbers_Animation.gif

If you like puzzle games, or even like Sudoku, then you owe it to yourself to try Picross as it is pure crack. Did you every play Mario Picross? :)

[Oobgarm]

Did you every play Mario Picross? :)

Note to reader:

If you never did, do yourself a favor and seek out a copy. I dare say it's the finest GB puzzler out there.

[T]

I ordered mine last week and recieved it yesterday.

I solved 11 puzzles and can tell you i already love it.

It is impossible to describe in words. You have to play
it to fully understand.




.

[joedick]

IGN has the game listed as a 7/30 release:

http://ds.ign.com/objects/876/876330.html

Mario's picross is an amazing game. I lost large chunks of my life to that game. I'm glad the DS version is coming here too.

[DigitalSpace]

Nice to see that Nintendo decided to bring this to the states. :)

[NE146]

Note to reader:

If you never did, do yourself a favor and seek out a copy. I dare say it's the finest GB puzzler out there.

Agreed. And of course Picross DS is the same pedigree. You can download classic puzzles from Mario Picross (the GB & SNES versions) and it even has remixed music. Good stuff :D

[cyberfluxor]

Note to reader:

If you never did, do yourself a favor and seek out a copy. I dare say it's the finest GB puzzler out there.
Awhile back I found a copy but knew nothing about it and was very stupid to not buy it. It was gone the following day after investigating what the hell it was. I swear, next time I find it it's mine (unless some crazy guy is selling it for 60 bajillion dollars).

[Buyatari]

Ahh so its like lite brite meets minesweeper?


Holy crap man.. It's an awesome logic puzzle game where you use clues to draw a picture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picross). It starts out simple then it gets a lot more bigger and detailed as you get better


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Paint_by_numbers_Animation.gif/250px-Paint_by_numbers_Animation.gif

If you like puzzle games, or even like Sudoku, then you owe it to yourself to try Picross as it is pure crack. Did you every play Mario Picross? :)

[NE146]

Ahh so its like lite brite meets minesweeper?

No.. there's no colors in this Picross.

HOWEVER.. there are lots of jap ds ones WITH color (like Oeki Puzzle Battle?) and that is what you're looking for if you want Lite Bright meets minesweeper. :D

[GrandAmChandler]

This game is crack.

Who's with me?

[Kroogah]

Aye, I with you.

[joedick]

I hear ya. I've been playing non-stop since it came out, and I've still got a bunch to go.

[sisko]

This game is crack.

Who's with me?

Also with you.

I just finished intermediate mode, and went to difficult. I haven't even touched the online compatability.

[8-bitNesMan]

Okay, okay you guys have sold me on it! I went and picked it up for $20 on my lunch break. Been wanting something new to play on my DS anyway. I think I will dig it. I'll post back later and let ya'll know what I think of it.

[neogamer]

Its only $20, and a great game to boot! I was glad Nintendo brought it out over here.....

I only wish they would bring out more obscure titles.

Unfortunately, I wonder if this game will sell over here? Magnetica was fun, but it didn't sell all that well. Yet, when you look at the success of games like Brain Age and Big Brain Academy, maybe this title will sell as well!

[jajaja]

I bought this game for my parents a while ago. My mother really enjoys it.

[Mr. Smashy]

It hasn't left my DS since release day. I think it's great. I thought that the stylus controls would be great but I still revert to the d-pad for anything above 10x10. I'm aiming to have Normal Mode finished up by next week.

[davidbrit2]

Anybody know if the US version differs at all from the Japanese release?

[RetroYoungen]

I dunno about a difference, but I doubt they'd change much, save for the default language. I've bought it, it's ABSOLUTE crack (and that's meant in the greatest, most best-est possible way), and it's only left my DS once since I bought it (and that was today; I've had it since a day or two after launch... I had to compare the DS Mr. Driller with the Wonderswan version, so sue me ^_^ ).

[portnoyd]

This game is crack.

Who's with me?

ME. Jesus christ, why did I not get Mario's Picross for the GB? I missed out.

[NE146]

I've been playing the jap version for months.. almost done with it.

That being said, I definitely like the "Free" mode better on the more complex puzzles. I love being able to test out possibilities using the testing mode and being able to undo them to your last decision point in a snap. It's too bad the regular mode doesnt allow you to do this.. but I guess it wouldn't have worked with the penalty system in that mode.

Great game.. some of the themes are awesome (the grass), while others don't work so well and are hard to see through (space). The only thing I wish it could have had is larger puzzles or even something like in Mario Picross 2 where it you solved 4 individual puzzles to solve one massive 40x40 grid or something like that.

[sirhansirhan]

I've been with Mario's Picross right from the start, and the DS version here a couple of days ago, and loved it until I got to the part where the grids are big enough to require zooming. The mechanic is handled clunkily and it really impedes on my overall enjoyment of the game.

Regardless, it's totally worth the $20.

[NE146]

I've been with Mario's Picross right from the start, and the DS version here a couple of days ago, and loved it until I got to the part where the grids are big enough to require zooming. The mechanic is handled clunkily and it really impedes on my overall enjoyment of the game.

Regardless, it's totally worth the $20.

You'll get used to it. I didnt like the zooming in, until I slapped myself on the forehead and realized the unzoomed puzzle just moves to the top screen. That being said, once I got used to it, I preferred looking in the zoomed in part.. it actually works out well. You glance at the top for the big picture and then focus on an area.

The important thing though I think is Do NOT use the stylus on this game. It totally sucks on the zoomed in parts. And you can't even fill in the tiny squares when you're zoomed out (it doesn't allow you to at all). But with the D-Pad, it does. Go figure.

Picross is all about the D-Pad anyway. :D

[8-bitNesMan]

Totally awesome game. Played it last nite and couldn't turn it off to go to sleep. If you have a DS and you don't have this game, RUN don't walk ASAP and pick it up. Yet another addiction, all I needed :roll: But I'm lovin it!

[downfall]

Hey, I told you guys it was awesome!

Sorry for the thread title, btw! ;)

[namzep]

Just picked it up on Monday and am loving it. I have to agree that the puzzles that require zooming in take a while to get used but have to disagree about the stylus. It is alot easier to use then trying to use the D-Pad to fill in the squares.

[NE146]

Just picked it up on Monday and am loving it. I have to agree that the puzzles that require zooming in take a while to get used but have to disagree about the stylus. It is alot easier to use then trying to use the D-Pad to fill in the squares.

Except for the fact that if you ever wanted to, you can't fill in the squares in large puzzles when you're zoomed out. You can only do it with the D-pad ;)

Despite that though, I guess it's just the Mario Picrosses that got me used to the D-pad. One button for X's, and one button for fills. Precise + nice and easy. It's D-pad all the way for me :)

[FlufflePuff]

I agree that the stylus is a bad idea, except for the Daily Picross portions. They require top speed, and are all small, so you can use the stylus effectively. On the 15 by 15 squares, just stick with the Dpad. It's so much more effective.

[joshnickerson]

Hey, the Classic puzzles just got released this week! Go download some classic Mario's Picross GB puzzles now! Woot!

[Vectorman0]

I want to play online against some fellow DPers. Post here, get me in #vbender, AIM, email, or PM me!

My friend code is 408126 198641

While I have the European version, I know it works with the Japanese version online, thus I would assume it also works with the American version.

[namzep]

I want to play online against some fellow DPers. Post here, get me in #vbender, AIM, email, or PM me!

My friend code is 408126 198641

While I have the European version, I know it works with the Japanese version online, thus I would assume it also works with the American version.
I'll have to locate my friend code this weekend (don't have my copy on me). Since I've beaten all the puzzles on it, it would be nice to have some other reason to play it. It also forced me to replay Mario's Picross (which I have, also, since beaten).

[stuffedmonkey]

This game is great, and at $20 no less... I love that Nintendo keeps prices reasonable.

[VACRMH]

I had never played this game until a few nights ago. Started around 11 and didn't look up until it was 2 AM O.o

Holy crap is this addicting.

[Super Mario Fan]

I bought this game the week it came out, and it hasn't left my DS yet. This is one of the most addicting puzzlers I've ever played.

[D_N_G]

almost done with the final extra level on free mode. been trying to wrap up so i can start phantom hourglass