Piczle Puzzle & Watch Collection has games that are merely okay overall if you aren't a fan of this style already. But as a collection overall, this is a good release. It makes a positive impression, and its retro approach comes in at a fair price.
Piczle Puzzle & Watch Collection2021
Piczle Puzzle & Watch Collection
2021 RAINYFROG
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- $7.99
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Details
- Launch
- July 29, 2021
- Developer
- Score Studios
- Publisher
- RAINYFROG
- Themes
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Overview
This is the Piczle Puzzle & Watch Collection, a love-letter to the days of LCD handheld gaming! Play one of three logic-puzzles designed to look like those pioneering handheld gaming devices of yore. Piczle Cross Choose from over 200 10x10 nonograms to play. Game A requires you to clear them making fewer than 3 mistakes. Game B let's you puzzle as you please. Your fastest time for each puzzle is recorded. Piczle Pattern Turn every square in a grid black following a cross pattern. Start with a blank slate and record your fewest moves, or start from a randomly generated grid. Piczle Loops 72 logic-puzzles that require you to draw an uninterrupted looping line on a grid following the clues. Game A offers 36 puzzles from easy to moderatem, Game B another 36 from moderate to hard. Lovingly unbox your games. Take a close look at every nook and cranny of the devices, the packaging and the included materials. Read the manual, like in the good old days! Don't press on the glass, it might damage...
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Reception
Piczle Puzzle & Watch Collection does an impressive job of offering 3 games that feel like authentic long-lost Game & Watch titles. The games themselves may not be as impressive as their aesthetics but there's still some fun to be had here for sure.
As someone who grew up in the original days of the Game & Watch devices there's absolutely a sense of warm nostalgia that comes with the sights and sounds they produce...