My first exposure to nonagrams/picross, turns out I like it. I'm the type of person who's able to relax to stuff like crosswords and sudoku, so this was a nice, very zen sort of game for me, especially considering this was how I navigated the latter half of lockdown (yeah, I spent about a year and a half on this). Since I was teaching myself as I went along, there was a cozy process to my gradually learning how to handle picross puzzles. I'm pleased to say that of the game's 300 puzzles, I only cheesed three of them - I'll gladly take a 99% average.

The Mario license doesn't contribute a lot to the overall experience, save for some of Mario's early puzzles and some of Wario's late puzzles (and in the latter's case - boy, I wish this was translated). I don't think it needs to, per se, but that did take a bit to get used to.