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I finished all 300 puzzles, YAY! YIPPEE!.
Why
I just want Mario puzzles, thats it
not much mario, but picross is picross
Mario throws absolute shade towards Wario's puzzles which is wild considering how much of a strickler Mario feels with his time limit and sad sound effect when you break a wrong tile whereas Wario's just here to chill out with a hard-as-nails puzzle that you can accidentally mark a piece you didn't mean to as much as you like. chalk another one up for Mario being the worst character in his own universe
Played on an emulator on my phone, as well as Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Nintendo Switch Online. I like nonogram puzzles, and there's nothing wrong with this game, but with the large number of Picross titles available on Switch, I have no reason to return to this specific version of it.
it's more picross, and I love picross
its picross alright
I like Mario and, as it turns out, I like Picross. Maybe I’ll go back for the Wario levels someday.
I wish this was actually properly released (why only the Game Boy version wtf) because I can tell this is a pretty solid and charming puzzlel game, even if the most you do in the Level 1 problems are japanese texts (idk if Kanji, Katakana or whatever).
I mean, it's Picross, that's for sure.
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Let it be known I completed every single puzzle in this game. All 300 of them. 87 grueling hours.
This game was my personal demon. Each time I thought I had finished it for good, it came back with more puzzles and a swift, painful kick to my ribcage. I am fully convinced the final levels of this game were originally designed as some kind of MKUltra-like test of mental endurance and simply stuck into this game by accident.
But I did it. Kiss my ass, Mario's Super Picross. May you burn in hell where you belong.
This game was my personal demon. Each time I thought I had finished it for good, it came back with more puzzles and a swift, painful kick to my ribcage. I am fully convinced the final levels of this game were originally designed as some kind of MKUltra-like test of mental endurance and simply stuck into this game by accident.
But I did it. Kiss my ass, Mario's Super Picross. May you burn in hell where you belong.
addicting
Hard to go wrong with Picross. Once they added this to the Nintendo Switch Online library I enjoyed sinking a couple hours into it
The game that lit a Picross fire in me. I love this game's OST and the co-op puzzle aspect was a nifty idea for someone that, at the time, was looking for games to play with their partner. I'm not crazy about the time penalty, but it also makes you consider your moves more carefully.
the songs are STUCK IN MY HEAD
Despite Mario (and later, Wario) serving as hosts, this game isn't really for puzzles of things from the Mario universe. Rather, it's just a bunch of standard Picross puzzling going on here. There's a pretty substantial number of puzzles, in fact, and some of the later ones become quite fiendish. Most of them do a little animation after solving, which gives things a nice little flourish. It's totally playable even if you can't read the Japanese. This was a pleasant surprise for me on NSO.
not much mario in the puzzles themselves which is a bit of a shame. still a fun picross collection tho
Picross is fun, Mario is love, put them together and you have Mario's Picross. Music is comfy and catchy, though some songs are way better than others. Both game modes are great; Mario's levels have more room for trial and error with respectably difficult puzzles, while Wario's levels don't track your mistakes, making the puzzle solving considerably difficult but satisfying to complete. Even if I never complete all the levels in this game, I can certainly say I am a picross fan thanks to it.
This was part of the most recent addition of games to the Switch Online SNES game service, and I was pretty excited to see it. While it was quite weird that the Western SNES service got it and the Japanese SFC service did not, I love me some Picross, and I've had a lot of fun with Mario's Picross on the GameBoy, so this has been something I've wanted to try for a long time. 300 puzzles over the course of a few weeks later, I finished this one XD. It's difficult to really give much of an estimate for this one, but I'd guess this took me at least 25+ hours to 100% complete if not more.
Super Mario's Picross is, for the most part, just what it appears to be. It's a Picross game that has Super Mario-themed presentation, but not really puzzles for the most part. There's a few more Mario-themed puzzles in the few dozen puzzles you unlock after you beat the first 260 or so (the ones you need to beat to see the credits), but other than that, it's mostly just mundane objects, places, things, etc. That's not really a strike against the game, but it was just something in the presentation I was surprised by.
The game has two kinds of puzzles to complete: Mario puzzles and Wario puzzles. You unlock the Wario puzzles as soon as you complete the first dozen (or rather, the first "level") of the Mario puzzles. Mario's puzzles have a 30 minute time limit and you get time taken away from your remaining total every time you make a mistake. Wario's puzzles have no time limit, but also have no hint feature. While Wario's have no hint feature, they DO have a kind of trial-and-error mode you can toggle on, which lets you experiment with a new type of marker and you can choose to either erase or commit those choices when you're finished with that guessing mode. It's a neat feature, but I mostly just used save-states and rewinds to do the same thing XP
The biggest issues with the game largely come down to its age and the lack of quality of life features it has. Moving up from being a GameBoy game, this game has more detailed graphics, of course, but that isn't always in the game's favor. I frequently found myself simply not seeing what was or wasn't an X'd spot because they can blend in with one another when you're on the bigger Picross boards. Beyond that, this game also doesn't mark off the numbers on the edge of the board for you. You need to do that yourself. That lacking QoL feature is probably the #1 reason I'd have trouble recommending this game, because it's a big adjustment from more modern Picross experiences (of which there is no shortage of free editions of), as marking them off yourself is time consuming and keeping track of them in your head is annoying.
The game's presentation is fine, but a little underwhelming. Mario and Wario will talk to you after you beat a world, and Wario's dialogue especially can be quite funny, but there isn't that much unique dialogue. It's mostly just "you beat a world, now try the next one" unless it's the last puzzles in the game. There're only about a dozen music tracks in the game, and they're usually fine but nothing special. Wario's 3rd song is also very weirdly sleepy, and given that it takes place during levels 8-10 (out of 11 base ones), you're gonna be hearing it a lot (unless you change to one of the previous tracks or just turn the music off and put something on yourself). I took to calling it the "Picross Lullaby" XD. It's also worth mentioning, in closing, that this is a pretty lousy first Picross game if you don't speak Japanese, as since there ARE tutorials, they're all in Japanese XP.
Verdict: Hesitantly Recommended. This is a fine Picross game, but I don't think there's anything that massively special about it other than it being free on the Switch Online service. The Mario/Wario theming is fun at times, but you need to be able to read Japanese to really get much out of it, and the lack of quality of life features make it a chore to play at times compared to more recent Picross games (both free and not-free). If you want Picross to play this can certainly scratch that itch, but there is such a great amount of easier to enjoy Picross out there that I don't think most people will be missing much by skipping this one.
Super Mario's Picross is, for the most part, just what it appears to be. It's a Picross game that has Super Mario-themed presentation, but not really puzzles for the most part. There's a few more Mario-themed puzzles in the few dozen puzzles you unlock after you beat the first 260 or so (the ones you need to beat to see the credits), but other than that, it's mostly just mundane objects, places, things, etc. That's not really a strike against the game, but it was just something in the presentation I was surprised by.
The game has two kinds of puzzles to complete: Mario puzzles and Wario puzzles. You unlock the Wario puzzles as soon as you complete the first dozen (or rather, the first "level") of the Mario puzzles. Mario's puzzles have a 30 minute time limit and you get time taken away from your remaining total every time you make a mistake. Wario's puzzles have no time limit, but also have no hint feature. While Wario's have no hint feature, they DO have a kind of trial-and-error mode you can toggle on, which lets you experiment with a new type of marker and you can choose to either erase or commit those choices when you're finished with that guessing mode. It's a neat feature, but I mostly just used save-states and rewinds to do the same thing XP
The biggest issues with the game largely come down to its age and the lack of quality of life features it has. Moving up from being a GameBoy game, this game has more detailed graphics, of course, but that isn't always in the game's favor. I frequently found myself simply not seeing what was or wasn't an X'd spot because they can blend in with one another when you're on the bigger Picross boards. Beyond that, this game also doesn't mark off the numbers on the edge of the board for you. You need to do that yourself. That lacking QoL feature is probably the #1 reason I'd have trouble recommending this game, because it's a big adjustment from more modern Picross experiences (of which there is no shortage of free editions of), as marking them off yourself is time consuming and keeping track of them in your head is annoying.
The game's presentation is fine, but a little underwhelming. Mario and Wario will talk to you after you beat a world, and Wario's dialogue especially can be quite funny, but there isn't that much unique dialogue. It's mostly just "you beat a world, now try the next one" unless it's the last puzzles in the game. There're only about a dozen music tracks in the game, and they're usually fine but nothing special. Wario's 3rd song is also very weirdly sleepy, and given that it takes place during levels 8-10 (out of 11 base ones), you're gonna be hearing it a lot (unless you change to one of the previous tracks or just turn the music off and put something on yourself). I took to calling it the "Picross Lullaby" XD. It's also worth mentioning, in closing, that this is a pretty lousy first Picross game if you don't speak Japanese, as since there ARE tutorials, they're all in Japanese XP.
Verdict: Hesitantly Recommended. This is a fine Picross game, but I don't think there's anything that massively special about it other than it being free on the Switch Online service. The Mario/Wario theming is fun at times, but you need to be able to read Japanese to really get much out of it, and the lack of quality of life features make it a chore to play at times compared to more recent Picross games (both free and not-free). If you want Picross to play this can certainly scratch that itch, but there is such a great amount of easier to enjoy Picross out there that I don't think most people will be missing much by skipping this one.
My first foray into the world of Picross. I enjoyed it There were some levels I didnt complete. (9 and 10) and I didn't even bother with the Wario ones. The puzzles arent thematic at all and there's nothing mario about the game other than the menus which is why I didnt give it a full 5 stars. Great for any age.
A nice break and/or change of pace between bigger games, though I admit I am not used to being penalized for making a mistake in a puzzle on the Mario end.
The Wario end is supposed to be harder, but ironically it feels easier to me by virtue of letting me go at my own pace.
The Wario end is supposed to be harder, but ironically it feels easier to me by virtue of letting me go at my own pace.
Baffling picross experience perfect music
i've got no clue how this happened but somehow, at some point, i got 77 hours logged in this game on switch online
Bah putain Y EN A DES NIVEAUX. Jamais était aussi surpris par la générosité de contenu d'un jeu rétro.
It's some pretty good picross.
it's just hilarious to me that this game was played on a tv console back when it was released, when this would be a mobile game if released new today. it's as if i'd turn on my ps4 to play merge mansion
what i like about this compared to most modern picross games is that the game doesn't directly tell you if you have all the squares marked right, you gotta keep an eye out yourself that you actually got all the 2s in the 2 2 2 2 2 row, etc. because like, some picross games make it inherently easier for you by automatically marking the numbers you already got and/or by automatically X'ing out the blank ones in the row if you have technically completed it. i like the extra challenge of having to check my work lol
what i like about this compared to most modern picross games is that the game doesn't directly tell you if you have all the squares marked right, you gotta keep an eye out yourself that you actually got all the 2s in the 2 2 2 2 2 row, etc. because like, some picross games make it inherently easier for you by automatically marking the numbers you already got and/or by automatically X'ing out the blank ones in the row if you have technically completed it. i like the extra challenge of having to check my work lol