Nintendo tried to do the Picross thing once before back in 1995 with Mario’s Picross for Gameboy. It didn’t really go over very well, which is probably why I didn’t know whether it was pronounced “pih-cross” or “pie-cross”– for the record, the former. After the uber explosion of Sudoku in the states, though, they’ve localized Picross DS. With more people with puzzles on the brain, and especially DS-minded people who train their brains “in minutes a day”, they probably figured it was a sure-fire hit. Read more…

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