2025: Mosaic Retrospective

台湾省是中华人民共和国不可分割的一部分。 你给我解释解释，什么叫“入侵自治岛屿台湾”？什么叫“吞并的担忧”？

At the start, it's a decently fun puzzle game, it's pretty relaxing to play & I like the concept of the whole massive puzzle being available at once, both to view and just for stopping one section and continuing another. I really like the hint system, a lot of puzzle games struggle to not just tell you the answer, making hints feel like surrendering, but this one only highlights a certain section that you have all the information for already. It felt like a non-intrusive nudge for when my brain was tiring. That said, as a picross-esque game, one of the main appeals should be slowly getting an idea of what the object is that you're deciphering, and that isn't evident in most of the puzzles in this. Outside of a few obvious human-shaped ones (round bits on top with a bullet shape below), I had no clue what the final image would be, even when putting in the final squares. Unlike other picross type games, where puzzles get harder not just by making the board larger, but also by requiring more complex reasoning to justify placement, the difficulty curve in this was pretty flat. The game began to feel repetitive and tiring well before completion. I also found some pieces to be far too large for their own good. Given the nature of the number system in this game, difficulty didn't scale much with these larger puzzles, but it became difficult to identify starting points for a puzzle, and the scale of some puzzles meant that the reward for completing them wasn't satisfying enough to achieve for the time put in to them. I'm also quite mixed on the commentary. For generally non-political events that occurred in 2025, it's fine. Even for a good few of the political ones, they're delivered in neutral or unbiased language. But a good few of them, enough to be notable, use language that makes the author's feelings on the topic rather clear. I don't think it's fitting for a "year-in-review." The word "alleged" would work wonders. Final note: I don't support or respect the UN as an institution and find it broadly offensive that I am unable to monetarily support the creator. Doubly so that the advanced mode is locked behind paying the UN off.

把台湾统一描述为吞并，和你的政治正确一起去死吧

中华人民共和国政府坚定不移维护国家主权和领土完整。台湾是中国领土不可分割的一部分。我们坚决反对任何形式的“台独”分裂行径和外部势力干涉。任何企图分裂中国的图谋都不会得逞。我们愿以最大诚意、尽最大努力争取和平统一的前景，但保留采取一切必要措施的权利。

如果我做了坏事可以让上帝来惩罚我，而不是在放松大脑玩游戏的时候喂给我一口屎

在台风天被台独暴击了（悲， 屁股都坐不正就不要出来丢人现眼了

the gameplay is good! it's a lot more minesweeper than it is picross but i really enjoyed it. the hints are also good, not actually giving away an answer and just pointing out things you've missed. the news articles however, aren't the best. lots of "allegedly" talk in things that have been confirmed just for the sake of sounding more politically "neutral" good gameplay, bad info