This may not be one of the bestselling games on the DS, but there is absolutely no reason why it shouldn't be! It's essentially the Japanese logic puzzle game, Hanjie, renamed as Picross. With over 300 puzzles, it promises plenty of challenges. What is it? Picross, or Hanjie, is essentially a grid with numbers running along the the vertical and horizontal sides of the grid. The number(s) of each line represents how many squares of that line of the grid are to be shaded. So for example, if it was a 15x15 grid, and a horizontal line had the numbers, 5 3 5, you'd know that the first three squares should be shaded, then leave one unshaded, shade the next ...  Read the complete review

I play this game a lot and you should too!! So first of all it's a puzzle game, if you want to shoot something you may not be interested but I'd fully encourage you to give it a chance. This is because Picross is a game that can be enjoyed by anyone anywhere and with the right marketing it seriously could have been the next Tetris. Ok a bit of an exaggeration but for me, this is as fun as Tetris, that's fair. Essentially the aim is to reveal a hidden picture by playing the puzzle. You have a grid of varying size depending on the level you play. You need to fill in the squares on the grid and at the end you have a pattern that resembles something ...  Read the complete review

I got this game after recently completing picross 3D -and was worried that it wouldn't be as challenging but boy was I wrong! It's basically a DS version of the game Hanjie you find in puzzle books. Through a process of elimination you mark the correct boxes used to make the image and put X's in the ones that need to be left blank. A wonderful way of using your brain and remaining entertained at the same time. It has a huge amount of puzzles separated into different categories - Easy Mode, Normal Mode and Free Mode. With the first two you are told when you make a mistake and extra time is added to compensate for this (otherwise you would be able to guess ...  Read the complete review

Picross DS was a game I had been trying to get my hands on for ages and when I finally managed to get a copy - it was well worth the wait! I've been buying the Hanjie puzzles books from WH Smiths for a while and when I read that I could get a game containing the puzzles on the DS I was intrigued. Could this work on the DS? Would it still be as enjoyable? And would it be easy to play or would it just be fiddly? The good news is that it is in fact a great adaptation to the handheld DS console. The controls to mark the solid and blanks squares were really easy to use and I didn't even need to refer to instructions as it was explained simply and clearly ...  Read the complete review

Picross is a really addictive and fun puzzle game for the DS, based heavily on the Japanese puzzle game Hanjie. Rather than explain all of the rules (which can be found on the net) I will just give a brief summary: You are given a grid within which a picture is contained. You make the picture by painting in the correct grid squares. There are number clues on each row and column which tell you how many squares along the line and in which order. The user will have to cross reference columns and rows to determine which cells must be filled in. There are easy puzzles to begin with which will allow the player to ease their way into the game and the ...  Read the complete review