GamesRadar+ Verdict
Pros
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Brilliant puzzle solving
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Incredibly satisfying
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Gets the ol' noodle cooking
Cons
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Sometimes a bit too tough
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Audio gets incredibly repetitive
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Graphics won't amaze or even impress
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Forget Sudoku. Kakuro: get your koat. Picross is the logic-based mind-meddler of champions. It's well established in Japan - having been invented by a woman flicking a skyscraper's lights on and off, believe it or not. Now the infection's spread to DS.
It works like PC timewaster Minesweeper with the randomness taken out. Starting out with a totally blank grid, you chisel out squares with your stylus, according to the numbers at the edges. So: seeing "3" and "7" at the top of a column means that, somewhere in that column, there's a line of three squares and a line of seven - in that order. The only question is: where?
