At least you can stop
that stupid bamboo thing with the fish now. Just stick it right on in there.
Find a picture that seems somewhat Japanese, turn it into a
jigsaw puzzle of between 60 to 200 pieces, put all the pieces in a pond with a
fish, take relaxing music and put it on a short repeat, get one of those bamboo
water features that clunks every few minutes as it fills with water and finally
a mouse that does not click where you want it to. That’s Pixel Puzzles: Japan !
As a digital jigsaw puzzle game, it offers 19 puzzles for
you to complete. The puzzles are decent pictures of varying difficulty. They
scale between 60 to over 200 pieces in varying styles and shapes and can take
anywhere from 20 minutes to a few hours depending on the number of pieces and
how difficult the picture is (especially the ‘Cherry blossom over water’
puzzle, OMG!).
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| 'Cherry Blossom Over Water' - I want to burn this puzzle till the end of time. |
That’s where I run out of anything good I want to/can say
about this game. The puzzle pieces float around in a pond on the edge of
puzzle. I think this was a good idea as it simulates digging in a box to find
the pieces, but it was horribly executed. In the higher piece puzzles, the
pieces are so small and numerous that it becomes exceedingly difficult to find
the piece you want as they float around and behind other pieces. On top of
that, the game is insistent on grabbing every piece but the one you want. The game doesn’t seem to know how the mouse
works. If you pick up a wrong piece and drop it back in, it always reappears in
the same spot in the pond, regardless of where you dropped it. This is bad for
two reasons: the first is that the spawn spot gets horribly overcrowded with
pieces fast; the second is when you drop a piece, it takes any other pieces it
falls on with it. I don’t even know why this is a thing! You can keep pieces on
the board as you need them, but without enough space it gets clogged up fast.
This is single-handedly one of the most frustrating games I have ever played.
Aside from that, it’s a jigsaw puzzle game, there is nothing
else to it. The music wears thin after a while and I ended up muting it and playing
my own music instead. Everything it does, it does either ‘ok’ or horribly. I do
not recommend this game unless you find real jigsaw puzzles too easy. There are
plenty of other jigsaw puzzle programs online that are FAR better than this. Use the Google.
P.S. I have now resorted to doing an actual jigsaw puzzle on
my table. I do have to say thanks to this game for driving me away from the
computer for a bit.
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