Evaluation: Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons (Nintendo Change)

There are two kinds of video games I like to play once I wish to chill out, or proper earlier than I’m going to mattress: Farming sims and puzzle video games. Particularly, Harvest Moon and Picross. I’m undecided if it’s the stress-free music or the “no stress” gameplay, however its fairly cathartic for me after a protracted day. So, you may think about how hyped I used to be once I stumbled upon a sport that mixed each of this stuff. Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons is a themed Picross sport that includes puzzles, music, and different Story of Seasons aesthetics. However is it a sport particularly for SOS followers, or one thing everybody can get pleasure from? Let’s have a look.

Should 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, objects, characters, animals, and buildings. As you full puzzles, you’ll discover your farm start to develop. You may see your farm within the background of the primary screens, with the 2 predominant characters continually working. It’s only a fundamental view which you can’t actually do something with. Should you full a puzzle that finally ends up being a rooster, for instance, then chickens will seem in your farm. Similar with cows, canine—you get it. It will have been neat to have the ability to work together with it a bit 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 a bit nostalgic if you happen to’ve performed any of the Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons video games and also you hear a well-known tune enjoying. Should you press pause throughout a puzzle it’s going to inform you the track title and the sport it’s from. You may regulate the sound results and music , thank goodness. As nostalgic as a few of these songs are, they’ll get a bit repetitive.

The puzzle display screen is fundamental, like most Picross video games. You don’t desire a bunch of distractions when you’re counting. The colours and songs within the puzzles will change with every season. Winter is essentially the most boring time of 12 months… as common.

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’ll kind one huge image. You undoubtedly get your cash’s price 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 after they’re themed—as with the Legend of Zelda Picross sport that was on the 3DS, or Mario’s Picross on the Gameboy. Right here, you’re getting a standard Picross sport with a Story of Seasons theme, type of just like the monopoly board sport and the way there are 1,000 totally different themes you may select from.

So, if you happen to’re a Picross fan, you’ll get pleasure from this sport. And if you happen to’re a Story of Seasons / Picross fan, you’ll actually get pleasure from this sport. Should you’re unfamiliar with Picross, I extremely advocate making an attempt it out, particularly if you happen to like puzzles or pixel artwork. It could appear intimidating, however, when you get the grasp of it, it’s fairly addictive.