About the game: This game is just like the first Picross, but with 3D puzzles. You get some sort of square, rectangular shape and you have to carve out the item.
Controls: Touch screen makes the game pretty awesome. Being able to slide and turn the item in circles plus being able to mark or destroy cubes makes the game pretty easy to control.
Graphics: Nothing special, your standard DS graphics.
Sound: The tunes are catchy and add a little bit to the game.
Gameplay: The game starts out by explaining the basics. You first get some rectangular shape. The shape is made up of smaller cubes with numbers on them. This is a 3D shape so you can maneuver the camera all over to see all around the shape in question.
You then learn how to destroy and mark cubes. You destroy the cubes by pressing up on the d-pad and touching the cube in question. You mark a cube by pressing right on the d-pad and touching the cube in question. This makes sure you do not destroy a cube by accident.
The numbers on the cubes represent how many good cubes there should be in that row/column. Supposedly the game never requires you to guess, but I have found otherwise. The tutorial does a very good job of giving you some hints and tips to figuring out the numbers.
The more cubes you destroy the more you see of the item your carving out. If you destroy a cube that is part of the puzzle you get a strike. 5 strikes and your out. When you destroy your last cube, the puzzle will auto go into a little animation and you will get a number of stars depending on how well you did. If you do not get any strikes you get a star, if you beat the puzzle within the recommended time you get another and as long as you beat the puzzle you get another. So, you can get a total of 3 stars per puzzle.
As long as you complete the puzzles, you will unlock more puzzles. There are quite a few puzzles to unlock and they get harder as you go along.
This is one of the best puzzle games I have played in a long time. The game just keeps you coming back for more and more. I have powered through all the easy and normal puzzles and I am now onto the hard ones.
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