Hex Picross

Innovative idea ruined by lack of creativity and levels where you have to guess instead of using logic. Save your money. I'll start with the bad stuff. There are several (I don't actually know how many because I didn't bother to complete the entire game) levels where there is no logical way to start, you have to guess. How can they call that a nonogram/picross puzzle if you have to guess? You can't get all the achievements. The developer never completed the game. The last size of levels just says "coming september something". Comments on the discussion board say it's been long time and no response from the developer. The game has been abandoned. Completed pictures are just geometric shapes: triangles, circles, etc. That gets boring. There are many different size puzzles to do but they are just bigger images than the smaller ones. I've never played a nonogram/picross game where the image is not an object or living thing of some kind: animals, flowers, people, telephones, etc. That's part of the fun of the puzzle, seeing what the finished image is. To just see more triangles in a different arrangement is disappointing and discouraging. One final negative: there is no music in the game at all!!!!! You do puzzles to complete silence. What, the dev couldn't find some free music out there to put in the game, are you kidding me? Now some positive stuff. This is an innovative idea of now to do a nonogram/picross puzzle. Instead of blocks making a grid there is a hexagram and you have to work from all sides instead of just columns and rows. If the developer had done pictures of animals and things then this game would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately that not the game we got. One more positive thing, although each level has to be unlocked by completing the previous one the size of levels is not locked. So you can do some 4x4 puzzles, then try out some 5x5 puzzles and 6x6 puzzles. You're not completely locked in. That helps when you run into a puzzle that can only be completed by guessing and you've tried 5 times and are ready to punch your monitor/screen. Just skip it and go to the next size up. Oh, and yes there are achievements (but you can't get 100%). Final words: I rarely do negative reviews so that should tell you something. Only buy this game if it is really really really really cheap and you're a die-hard nonogram/picross fan and want to check out hexagram puzzling. Otherwise, save your money. You have been warned.