It’s Picross, but now there’s a ‘5’ on the tin.
There are plenty of excellent puzzle games on the Switch, but arguably the most ubiquitous franchise out there is Nintendo’s own Picross series, which has featured fairly frequently ever since the platform’s launch year. With the launch of Picross S5, we’re now looking at the sixth (!) entry in the series so far, and you can rest assured that this one likely won’t be the last, either. Even so, this is a series that lends itself well to ‘keeping it simple’, as each entry functionally acts as a DLC pack that brings a whole lotta puzzling goodness your way every few months.
For those of you out of the loop, Picross S5 sees you solving hundreds of nonogram puzzles by utilizing basic logic skills. In practice, the gameplay seems to fall somewhere in between Minesweeper and Sudoku puzzles, requiring a fair balance of guesswork and deduction techniques in order to arrive at the solution. The aim of each puzzle is to draw a picture by filling in the correct tiles, and the correct ones are hinted at by the numbers on the sides of the rows and columns of each grid. It’s a remarkably straightforward process at its heart, but arriving at answers requires quite a bit of analysis, as you’re expected to cross-reference hints with each other to figure out which tiles you can rule out.
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