{"id":558,"date":"2010-06-19T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:08:10","slug":"picross-3d-nintendo-ds-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/picross-3d-nintendo-ds-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Picross 3D (Nintendo DS) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing Picross 3D for a couple weeks now. Picross 3D takes the Japanese nonogram puzzle and adds another axis.<\/p>\n<p>They take a slightly different approach from the nonogram in that they only provide one number for a row or column. This simplifies it on one hand, but on the other, the number could have a circle around it (means that it is broken in 2 pieces) or a square around it (means that it is broken into 3 or more pieces). I think this lets them make more complex puzzles using the smaller space they have. It seems the maximum size is 10x10x10.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_560\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/picross_3d_screenshots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-560 \" title=\"Picross 3D Screenshots\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/picross_3d_screenshots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/picross_3d_screenshots.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/picross_3d_screenshots-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picross 3D Screenshots<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The controls are pretty simple. You use the stylus to rotate the puzzle, show\/hide layers and select blocks. By default the stylus interacts with the puzzle. You have the option of using the D-Pad (if you&#8217;re right-handed) or the buttons (if you&#8217;re left-handed) to toggle between the hammer (to remove blocks) or paint brush (to protect\/mark blocks to keep). This toggle is a little bit hard for me since I generally can only work the D-Pad if I hold the DS with both hands. It works best if I set the DS down and play. I tried to come up with a way that would work better. The best I had was if you could just tap the hammer\/paint brush icon (would need a 3rd icon so you can manipulate the puzzle) to choose a mode. The drawback here is the time it would add to constantly switch (the puzzles are timed) and to get a perfect score the time limit is low. You need to get a perfect score so you have a chance to unlock the 2 extra puzzles on each level. Having said that, it would&#8217;ve been nice to have that option as well so you could play it with only a stylus.<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint is that you have to get through an entire level of difficulty to move onto the next level of difficulty. I&#8217;ve already completed about 170 puzzles and I would guess there are 100+ more before I finally get to Hard (there was Easy, Beginner and Normal so far). Overall. my fascination with Japanese number puzzles has me hooked and I find this to be a fun game that can take up hours of your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing Picross 3D for a couple weeks now. Picross 3D takes the Japanese nonogram puzzle and adds another axis. They take a slightly different approach from the nonogram in that they only provide one number for a row or column. This simplifies it on one hand, but on the other, the number could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,230],"tags":[234,231,232,233],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-video-games","tag-disabled-gaming","tag-nintendo-ds","tag-picross-3d","tag-puzzle-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}