windsonged's Profile
Stat Summary
- Average Rating:4.7
- Helpful Votes:31
- Reviews Submitted:3
- First Review:January 20, 2018
- Most Recent Review:June 26, 2019
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windsonged's Review History
Get ready for a romantic journey! 120 fun griddlers await you in Picross Beach Paradise!
Overall rating
5
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5
8 of 8 found this review helpful
Perfect for a logic game lover!
PostedJune 26, 2019
windsonged
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management, Word
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
3
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
Storyline
3
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5
This game requires much more mental effort than most griddlers coming out these days. I can finish a whole Fantasy Mosaics in advanced mode in about a quarter of the time this game takes. Even with self-imposed challenge rules.
However, if you want pictures, a story, colors, and music stop now!
Do not get this game! It is purely a logic puzzle. Nothing more.
If the mere mental challenge of solving a puzzle is not sufficient reward for you, you will not like this game. Do not upset yourself trying it out. I will side with dislikes over the misleading description. There's no adventure or anything like that to be had. It's like sudoku, where the end result is a grid of meaningless numbers. The end result is a grid in which some spots have a dully colored tile. That's it. If you like that, the fun factor is 100%. If you don't, you will hate it.
I am one of those people that likes this sort of thing.
I had not realized how lazy the versions where you switch between colors and that block out tiles for you had made me until I played one of these again. It took some work to get my brain to make up for how much easier color and auto-count versions of griddlers are (even when you select advanced and it waits until you have gotten through the whole row before it crosses off the numbers and blocks unused tiles, it is still easier than this game).
There is, in fact, only one puzzle I had to guess for. There are a handful that are incredibly hard because they require mentally trying a tile and seeing how that would affect the whole board, while mentally keeping track of what tiles you have blocked and what you have used, to determine if that tile is right or not. (That's not a guess, btw, that's brain power.) But while I was once very good at this and could get through these puzzles much more quickly, it had become much harder to do without the various ways that other games have made these puzzles easier to do. (And I won't deny that on some days, having the computer block tiles for you, is a nice break ;)
Want to challenge yourself even more? Try getting through the whole game mentally remembering the blocked squares and not actually blocking them.
I recommend this game!
This is your chance to become a bigger and better fish tycoon in this fun simulation game!
Overall rating
4
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5
16 of 19 found this review helpful
The original Fish Tycoon is the reason I joined Big Fish
PostedMarch 26, 2018
windsonged
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
4
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
My only complaint would be the inability to speed up the game. Since you can't play multiple games on Big Fish, having to sit around waiting for fish to be born and grow can be a bit tedious. I still love experimenting with breeding the fish and seeing what comes out. :)
I recommend this game!
Have a blast completing 120 nonogram puzzles with pirate themes!
Overall rating
5
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5
7 of 7 found this review helpful
I love logic games
PostedJanuary 20, 2018
windsonged
Skill Level:Expert
Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management
Fun Factor
5
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5
Visual/Sound Quality
5
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5
Level of Challenge
5
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5
If you want to complete logic puzzles, you'll like this game. If you want something more, you won't.
Just so you know what kind of thing I'm interested in, I still have my LSAT prep books and when I get bored I whip them out and knock out a few puzzles.
I have absolutely no interest in a story when I play the logic games. I get them for the logic part. Puzzles don't have goal other than figure out the puzzle. If that's not enough for you, don't play the game. You'll hate it.
The multicolor games can be a bit simpler. I consider many of them a cheat, although the nonograms like Malcolm and the Magnificent Pie actually still require logical thinking and make me use a different strategy for the game, so those ones are good. So, I don't mind in the least that this is monotone. Any one of these griddlers or nonograms that require guessing have me yelling "cheater" at the computer.
Unlike some of those fancy story games for the griddlers, I don't have to deal with background images straining my eyes and making it impossible for me to see whether I've marked the square or not.
My only complaint would be with the game description, which misleads you into thinking that there is going to be a story. Or a goal, other than "complete all puzzles without guessing." Just be honest. "This is a logic puzzle that has pirate themed images." That way people aren't disappointed because they expected something else.
I recommend this game!