Fantasy Mosaics 15: Ancient Land

Fantasy Mosaics is a series of nonograms (also known as griddlers) games released for iOS and Android before being ported on PC and Mac. I know that because I've added the whole series on Neoseeker. That's why when I saw it on Greenlight, I voted yes, despite the fact that it's just puzzles after puzzles. The thing is that the 15th opus isn't so much different from the 14th. The only difference is that I wasn't bored at firt, as I've grown fond of the series. Also, the number of hours passed in Ancient Land has decreased by half, as I've acquired some thinking patterns, allowing me to go faster and with less errors. But the question is: what's a griddler or a nonogram? You must reveal a drawing by "blackening" a certain number of tiles in the row or in the line. However, each number represent tiles being next to each other: if you see 3, you know that you have three tiles without any space. The difficulty can vary: between full lines or columns or only tiles possibles at the end, you have to think when you have a line or a column of 1-1-1-2-1-3. But like I've said, some tricks can help: when there is a space between two tiles, you know that this space can't be used at all. The plot isn't really important: a family of penguins travelling around, discovering more colors or unlocking new items for the "garden". What's really keeping me is to make no errors to have three stars or a golden cup (no hint, no mistake). Like in the 14th, the drawings aren't really interesting for me. And if it's the challenge which is keeping me in the game, it means that you need to be interested to challenge your brain and more if you want to play without the numbers being crossed (which I'm not even doing as I find the casual difficulty hard enough). The real negative point is a price I find a little too high for what's provided, however, with a discount, it may be interesting to buy. However, the 14th and the 15th games are really similar, it could be only one game if the PC/Mac version wasn't following how they were released on iOS and Android - because, yeah, it's a port of a mobile game. The 16th game, just released on Steam, is providing more change as the palette of colors is now extended to six, just for your information. But I'm still curious about the earlier works and how the series evolved.

Aïe, la première approche a été douloureuse. Habituée à d'autres nonogrames, j'avoue que la maniabilité du truc et l'esthétisme (ou plutôt son absence), m'ont un peu agressée de prime abord. Et puis...on s'y fait vite. La facilité et la lisibilité, les codes couleurs, font qu'on éprouve quand même du plaisir à parcourir les 5 x 20 niveaux. Un peu plus de 6h pour en faire le tour. Ca n'a pas été une si mauvaise expérience finalement mais je n'irais pas les conseiller plein tarif ! Adopté en bundle promo, je n'ai pas de regret.

If you've played the previous iteration of this series on Steam ("Fantasy Mosaics 14: Fourth Color"), you know exactly what to expect with this one ("Fantasy Mosaics 15: Ancient Land"). Basically, pure nonograms (20 sets of 5) with the twist that you have/get to complete four separate color's worth of a nonogram to complete each puzzle. Everything's very visible and doable. My only quibble is that the two tools you get (a bomb-like thing and a pick) aren't well explained (I still don't understand what the difference between them is -- though I hardly use them (only when the game presents me with a logic loop). This game took me 13.3 hours to complete (no Achievements available -- though they'd be nice in this game). That's about 5 hours less than what it took me to complete the previous game. But, I'm pretty sure it's just because I got a whole lot better at these since then. So, even at its current list price of about $7, it's worth it. I got the game for about $2, so that's even better. Definitely recommended.

このゲームは、4種類のカラーを用いた、いわゆるお絵かきロジックと呼ばれるゲームです。 1つの問題を解く際に、4種類のカラー別々にヒントが用意されているので、カラー毎のヒントが１つにまとめられているタイプののお絵かきロジックに比べて易しくなっています。 問題自体の難易度も易しめで、サクサク解きたい人向けになっています。 また、お絵かきロジックのルールを知っていれば、問題を解くのに英語力はほとんど必要ありません。 ゲームシステムとしては、マスを正しく塗りつぶしていくと、ミスできる回数やヒントをくれる回数等が増えたりします。 私はアドバンスモードで遊んでいますが、マスを塗りつぶす・塗りつぶさないに関わらず、マスをクリックするたびに正誤判定がされるので、意図せず難易度が下がってしまうのが残念でした。

👎 I would not recommend it. Positive: +It's fun to play a picross by colors. Although it can make the puzzle solving too easy if each color does not have much painted tiles. I would rather play a slightly better picross game that also feature multiple colors like "Travel Mosacis 6: Christmas Around the World" or "Travel Mosaics 10: Spooky Halloween" than this one with is 90's UI look. +Even with it's flaws, it is still kind of addicting and enjoyable to play. Negative: -No validation when you delete a profile (bye bye progress 🥲) -It just look at a port of an old 1995 game, graphics and UI are horrible. -No customisation. -Some puzzles requires guessing. -No steam achievements. -No grid size displayed anywhere. -Other small stuff that would need to be addressed to improve the gaming experience.

Simple and entertaining

ok

Игра очень понравилась. Интересный подход к решению многоцветных японских кросссвордов - каждый цвет собирается отдельно и начать можно с любого цвета. Размер поля постоянный 15х20 клеточек, все детали и цвета четкие, без лишнего украшательства. Для знатоков японских кроссвордов решить данные задачи несложно, но удовольстия получаешь много.

Good picross game, only a few instances of having to guess.

멀티 피크로스 게임(모자이크 게임) 상단과 좌측에 숫자들이 적혀있으며 해당하는 숫자만큼 타일들을 색칠하면 되는 게임입니다. 숫자가 서로 떨어져 있으면 해당 숫자 사이에 빈공간이 1개이상 필요하니 주의! 멀티 방식으로 여러개의 색상이 주어지고 이 색상들도 하나의 그림을 완성할 수 있습니다. A색상으로 타일들을 모두 색칠하면 B색상으로 변경되면서 A색상이 칠해진 부분도 제외한 상태로 칸들을 채워야하죠. 그렇게 4개의 색상들을 조합해서 그림 만들기! 참고로, 색상은 플레이하면서 자유롭게 변경을 할 수 있으며, 이를 통해서 A색상에서 막히는 부분을 B색상을 채우면서 해결할 수 있는 등 약간의 협동적인 부분들도 존재합니다. 아쉬운 점 -취소기능이 애매함 (1번의 실수로 골드 달성 와장창) -다른 피크로스들과 달리 완성된 숫자에 대한 즉시 처리 없음(라인을 모두 해결해야 해당 라인의 숫자가 모두 제거됨)