An incredibly solid Picross game, one of the best actually, with a huge amount of levels and a really great difficulty curve. Will definitely come back to this and finish more levels but had to stop for a while when I realized I was nowhere near done. Also surprisingly good music. Definitely pick it up however you can if you like single-player puzzle games.
In what's starting to look like a very old and persistent trend with Nintendo Picross games, many of the puzzles in this game commit the cardinal sin of forcing players to do guesswork. I ran into this problem in the DS games and I'm disappointed to find they've been making this mistake for (seemingly) years. Sure the rewind feature on Switch mitigates the time penalty basically completely, but I guess I just expected tighter logic from a "deduction game".
Also, put a podcast or your music on while playing because there's only one good song in the whole game. The rest range from middling to annoying.
Also, put a podcast or your music on while playing because there's only one good song in the whole game. The rest range from middling to annoying.
This game is the sleeper hit of the SNES Online games on the Nintendo Switch. Super Mario World has been released countless times. I've played it on the Super Nintendo, the Wii, the 3ds, the SNES Mini, and the Switch. Everyone knows about it. More people should know about and play Mario's Super Picross. This game makes me want to scream in delight at its sounds, puzzles, and art. Seriously, Picross is good, and this is a good Picross!
This is 4 stars instead of 5 because most of the pictures were unrelated to Mario, which is bad because there's so much good Mario art in this game!
This is 4 stars instead of 5 because most of the pictures were unrelated to Mario, which is bad because there's so much good Mario art in this game!
This game became my first real foray into Picross after a streamer I followed got really into it (Many years ago I tried playing Pokemon Picross on the 3DS but couldn't really understand it). The music is pleasing, the art is fun, and picross is a really fun game to play!
My one complaint is that the time limit on the Mario levels add a large and frankly unneeded amount of stress to this otherwise relaxing game. It can get especially annoying in the later levels, where the picross grids are absolutely massive.
My one complaint is that the time limit on the Mario levels add a large and frankly unneeded amount of stress to this otherwise relaxing game. It can get especially annoying in the later levels, where the picross grids are absolutely massive.
Played this in 2014, it was my first Picross game ever. Puzzles were at a decent difficulty level for a beginner! The Wario puzzles were probably the best part of the game since it didn't really tell you if you were right or wrong until you finish the puzzle. Features from this game will go on to feature in some of the better Picross games of the future.