
Additional modes allow players to create their own puzzles and send them to friends, download classic puzzles and compete in speed competitions with friends or random rivals via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, download classic Picross puzzles from previous titles and complete up to five timed daily challenges. Gameplay follows traditional Picross rules, where players use logic to mark each square as full or empty, eventually revealing an unknown picture. So yeah, given that Picross is such a piss simple concept, you sure could have dedicated more to making the controls less annoying to use.The player deciphering the numbers to create the pattern required Also, as if it weren't bad enough that the mouse doesn't fixate on the line you're drawing, you don't even get a highlight of the line/column the mouse is pointing at, and that's an even bigger annoyance, especially in the larger levels. I like Pixelo better because it contains quick keyboard controls which eliminate this problem.

Sometimes, you just move your mouse a little bit out of the line you're drawing, and that results in drawing over squares you didn't intend to, and losing lives. The controls and user interface are what annoyed me the most in this game, seriously. There's the option to mark squares with an X, which is very useful, and that's about it. You get a matrix and indications in the rows/colums that tell you the length of the pixel segments contained in said row/column, and you must use that information to draw the image.

I usually just mute the music and continue playing. Also, the music is good, but there's only one song, and it eventually gets old.

Given that Picross is such a simple game, I'd love to be able to customize the game's appearance (such as in, say, Pixelo), because all that blue eventually bores me. The graphics are as simple as they have to be, and they are not unappealing. This is not the best picross game I've ever played, but it's way up there. Either way, picross always gets me addicted. So, either the average solving times are wrong, or I'm a genius, because I'm more often than not way below the average completion time of the puzzles.
