#Piczle Cross

[ranchstoryblog]

Piczle Cross: Rune Factory Announced!

If you enjoyed the Story of Seasons Piczle Cross game, get ready for some Rune Factory flavored puzzles coming to Steam and Nintendo Switch in 2025! The official website lists:

300 nonogram puzzles with both classic and color variations!

20 collage puzzles, made up of many smaller puzzles, both in classic and color variations!

Fight and capture monsters!

Uncover villagers and bachelors!

Customise your farm, pick your spouse and choose your weapons!

Unlock entries in the in-game Compendium and learn about the characters in Rune Factory!

Unlock entries in the in-game Bestiary and learn more about the beasts of Rigbarth!

The most feature-rich nonogram experience available!

Dozens of Quality of Life features, as well as aides for newcomers and a challenge mode for experts

Challenge yourself, ...or don't! There is no wrong way to play!

[plow-and-propose]

owo

I didn't think I'd like nonogram puzzles but I tried the free 3DS Twilight Princess Picross game and now I'm obsessed lol

[talesfromthebacklog]

Tales From The Frontlog: Piczle Cross Story of Seasons

Rating: Sure if you like Picross. They’re all the same shit.

“Yup. That’s Picross.” ~ Tales From The Backlog

Nintendo Eshop Link: Click Here

[nintendowife]

All this time I thought Story of Seasons was a wholesome cozy game series. Now I found out there's cockfighting. This is a collage puzzle titled "Cluck-Cluck Clash" from Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons. I am shocked.

[bokujou-monogatari]

Hey what the fuck is this

[bokumonocosplay]

I held off using some of the player characters' names because I couldn't find them on the official websites, but they are in Piczle Cross Story of Seasons! So I will be adding them now.

[thspod]

Picross and Farming Games? Sign us up!

[gonagaiworld]

Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons, il nuovo capitolo del puzzle game "bucolico" di Rainy Frog, è in arrivo per Switch e PC Il gioco sarà pubblicato in digitale il 27 febbraio. Info:--> https://www.gonagaiworld.com/piczle-cross-story-of-seasons-il-nuovo-capitolo-del-puzzle-game-bucolico-di-rainy-frog-e-in-arrivo-per-switch-e-pc/?feed_id=433330&_unique_id=65d5b3b58973d #NintendoSwitch #PiczleCrossStoryofSeasons #Steam

[ragequitgamer]

Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons Release Time & Date Countdown

Check out our #PiczleCrossStoryofSeasons countdown!

The Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons game is almost ready for you to play. In order to find out exactly when it’s coming out, we’ve checked everywhere. We’ve got a countdown timer, so you’ll know exactly when Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons is available! Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons Countdown – Start Time and Date Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons is set to release on February 27, 2024, as…

[sdgtent]

FTS: Celebrated Series Unveils ‘Piczle Cross: Story of ‘Seasons’ Switch/Steam

http://dlvr.it/T0CPcw

[justconstruction]

Solasta crown of the magister forum

#Solasta crown of the magister forum serial#

Ric, Paula and Alex are back once again with a - probably - unhealthy dose of games to talk about! As always, they talk about the games they’ve beaten, retired and been playing then Paula sings the song of her people, as they tackle the topic of Age of Empires IV and they finish off the episode with the hit game How Long To Beat? The Game!

#Solasta crown of the magister forum serial#

Ric: Undertale (Vita), Days Gone (PS4), Remnant: From the Ashes (PC), Live A Live (Switch), Where Shadows Slumber (Android), Gunstar Super Heroes (GBA), Cursed to Golf (Switch), Serial Cleaner (Switch), Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)Īlex: Age of Empires IV, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II, Shadowrun: Returns, Sniper Elite V2 Remastered, Final Fantasy IV, Glass Masquerade, Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor’s Path, Live A Live, Resident Evil 4 VR, Piczle Lines DX Paula: Myst, Age of Empires IV, Piofiore: Fated Memories You can see in the timestamps that the topic falls after discussing the hosts’ beaten, retired, and currently playing games, but before your weekly dose of How Long To Beat? The Game! Ric: Smash TV (Arcade), After Burner Climax (Arcade), Fatal Judgement: Silent Scope 2 (Arcade), Myst (PC), Gunstar Super Heroes (GBA), Days Gone (PS4), Remnant: From the Ashes (PC), Live A Live (Switch), Where Shadows Slumber (Android), Serial Cleaner (Switch)Īlex: Resident Evil 4 VR, Piczle Lines DX, Sorcery Part 1&2, Immortality, Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor’s Path, Live A Live, Dorfromantik, Cyberpunk 2077 Īs the summer holidays draw to a close, Alex, Paula, and Ric discuss holiday gaming in this week’s episode topic. Paula: Handshakes (Browser), Twelve Minutes, Age of Empires IV, Piofiore: Fated Memories, Pokemon Conquest, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, CollarxMalice, They round it all off with another round of How Long To Beat? The Game! Last week the gang tackled vacation gaming and so it only seemed fitting to talk about the reverse this week: gaming while busy! Alex, Paula, and Ric once again discuss the games they've beaten and are playing, but no retirements this week.

[ranchstoryblog]

Story of Seasons and Rune Factory on the 2024 Steam Summer Sale

The annual Steam Summer sale has begun, and all of the current releases for Story of Seasons and Rune Factory are there! From now to July 11th, the following Story of Seasons and related games are on sale:

Friends of Mineral Town - $15.99

Pioneers of Olive Town - $19.99

A Wonderful Life - $19.99

Rune Factory 3 Special - $19.99

Rune Factory 4 Special - $14.99

Rune Factory 5 - $19.99

Silent Hope - $19.99

Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons - $6.99

(Prices are in USD, so it might be different in your region)

[plow-and-propose]

[pehesse]

Today’s heroine is Score-chan from Piczle Cross Adventure by Score Studios.

[4colorrebellion]

4cr Plays - Piczle Cross Adventure (Switch)

I am a nonogram fanatic. I don’t know what exactly it is about the things, but I just can’t get enough of the little draw-by-numbers puzzles. Few games suck me in as intensely as a good Picross (or the indie equivalent). 

In the past, I thought I was more-or-less alone in this. Nonogram games were few and far between. I even found myself hunting down ROMs of Picross games released for the Satellaview broadcast service for the Super Famicom just go get my fix! Now, on the Switch, there are so many nonogram games coming out that I have actually found myself falling slightly behind! 

The latest twist are games that wed nonograms with a broader gameplay structure torn from another genre. The ingenious Murder by Numbers combined nonograms with a visual novel revolving around solving crimes. The recent PictoQuest merged nonograms with RPG mechanics. Now, we have Piczle Cross Adventure, which places the puzzles within a story-driven 2D adventure. 

If you have never solved a nonogram puzzle before, let me explain the concept. You start with an empty grid. Each row and column of the grid has a series of numbers on it. Your goal is to fill the correct cells in the grid to create an image. You can think of it as a form of “paint-by-numbers”, where you need to identify the right spaces to mark for form a pixel-art painting.

The numbers on a row or a column tell you how many spots need to be filled in. If you see a “5″, you know that a five-block sequence will need to be filled, while blocks before and after those five will remain unfilled. To figure out which five need filled, you need to look at the corresponding columns (if you are working on a row) and see if you can match the conditions placed by the numbers on each of those. You will often see multiple numbers, like “2 3″, indicating that there are multiple sequences that will be filled in. In this case, the row would have a sequence of two filled-in blocks, then later, a second sequence of three filled-in blocks. At least one unfilled cell must exist between the two sequences. Again, you need to use the other clues to identify where the two sequences lie in the row.

That’s about all there is to it. Identify the spaces to fill, mark off those you know will not be filled, and try to complete the picture as fast as you can without making any mistakes. As pictures get larger, this becomes a tougher task. Even as a novice, you can probably complete 5x5 or 10x10 puzzles without breaking a sweat. As the puzzles grow, you may find it a little harder to keep track of everything. Still, try not to panic. A great thing about nonograms is that you should never have to make a blind guess. There is always enough information to unravel the next spot - it just may take some searching to identify it.

Piczle Cross Adventure presents its puzzles in a classic form, without additions like multiple colors or layers that have been used in other recent games. This is not a complaint, however, as the puzzles are well-designed. I’ve had a lot of fun chiseling my way through the game, and it has a lot of great little challenges in it. The primary enhancement on standard puzzles in Piczle Cross Adventure is that some larger pictures are broken up into a series of smaller puzzles. As you complete the individual small puzzles, you reveal that larger picture. In these cases, it may pay off to keep each surrounding piece in mind, as they will offer clues on where the borders of your current piece lie. 

The most unique aspect of Piczle Cross Adventure is the inclusion of a massive overworld and story to guide your puzzle solving. The story revolves around the evil Mona Chromatic, who has unleashed the pixel-powered robot under_SCORE on the world in an attempt to rob it of its color. Score-chan, pet/companion(?) Gig, and Professor Matrix - the ostensible “protagonists” of the previous Piczle games - have set out to restore the zapped items and put the world together again. 

This story is mainly a way to guide you from puzzle to puzzle. Each item is restored by completing a puzzle representing it. The overworld, presented in a 2D overhead Zelda-like manner, is broken up into a series of regions. Each region has a number of items to restore. Often, you will find that your progress is gated until you find a particular item from a different region. For instance, a fallen tree might block your progress in one direction until you restore a chainsaw in a different area and bring it back to clear the path. 

Exploration of the overworld is not particularly deep. Other than unlocking items for simple puzzles, there isn’t a ton to do. You get XP for completing puzzles, but levelling up doesn’t really grant new abilities - beyond opening up more difficult puzzles. Still, it is a pretty compelling twist on the standard formula. Some puzzles are well-hidden, inside trash cans or behind trees. Hunting down every puzzle and filling in that section on your overworld map is an addictive process. The story and exploration give a nice feeling of progress as you work your way through. 

As I mentioned, I played Piczle Cross Adventure on Switch. It is also available on Steam. I’d personally chose every time to play this kind of game on a portable system, so I’d recommend getting the Switch version. It looks nice on the tablet - though, I had to turn off the fake overscan. It also makes nice use of the HD rumble on the Switch. This is the kind of game that benefits from portability and being able to play a few puzzles in bed before you sleep. 

Overall, I really enjoyed Piczle Cross Adventure. If you like nonogram puzzles, the ones in this game are really well designed. I also enjoyed exploring the overworld, trying to hunt down those last few obscure puzzles. If you’re looking for that next puzzle fix, this is definitely a game to look into.

A copy of Piczle Cross Adventure was provided for this review.

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[miloscat]

[Review] Piczle Cross Adventure (NS)

An excellent nonogram game with welcome adventure elements.

The small team at Score Studios has been developing its Piczle series of puzzlers for over a decade now. It’s covered a few different forms of logic puzzles, but this ambitious instalment combines traditional Picross-style nonograms with a lovely presentation and a world to explore in between puzzles!

In this way it’s evoking Jupiter’s Japan-exclusive Picross 2 on GB, where Mario walks through an overworld between puzzles. This game takes that further with non-linear exploration and RPG elements like experience levels (puzzles have a level threshold requiring you to clear earlier ones) and an inventory of keys and hidden items. I took pleasure in unlocking everything, the final reward being a Game Boy-style set of 20 bonus puzzles, on top of the 319 in the regular game.

The puzzles are integrated into the world in a fun way. In the story, the studio’s mascot Score-chan has to solve the puzzles in order to restore objects that have been zapped into the void. So by exploring you find holes, then bring life and colour back into the lush pixel world with its varied environs; it’s quite satisfying. And speaking of pixels, the game includes scanline and CRT warp filters; they weren’t to my taste but thankfully could be turned off.

The small bits of dialogue and writing in the story were quite amusing, the aesthetic is charming, and the puzzles are good! The publisher Plug In Digital has a cross-promotional deal with another game they published, PictoQuest, which I played previously. Compared to that game’s attempt to expand the Picross formula with RPG mechanics, this is more successful and polished. I heartily recommend it!