Otome Romance Jigsaws - Midnight Cinderella & Destined to Love

I really enjoy this unique take on puzzles. Its got some flaws... but it's pretty decent as a puzzle game. It features two play modes, a variety of different puzzles, anime artwork and steam achievements. [h1]Pros[/h1] [list] [*] Relatively easy. You don't have to flip the pieces - the correct rotation is already shown for you. There is a tray to seperate some pieces from others. You can even sort the puzzle area to show the edge pieces from the inside pieces. The characters that are featured on each stage will give you little hints. They will indicate whether you should be moving the pieces left/right, etc. [*] Features 16 puzzles in all. Some of them you have to unlock, but 12 are unlocked by default. There are three sizes for puzzles: 60 pieces, 240 pieces and 350 pieces. This is a great feature for each player to choose which size of puzzle they want without having to stress out about doing them all. [*] You can snap pieces together before finding the "correct spot". Not a lot of puzzle games do this and it's great to see. What I mean by this is that you can have a big section of multiple pieces that are put together but are not "in place" yet. You can move a large group of pieces that are put together into their correct spot as one, instead of having to place each piece individually. [*] Ikemen mode is AWESOME and is probably the biggest highlight of this game. Ikemen mode gives you one piece at a time and you have to connect each piece to other pieces you've already put down to form the entire puzzle. It's the only way to get the currency to unlock the other four locked puzzles. You are timed, and can form a chain as a bonus for as long as you don't make mistakes. By the end of it, you will get your points to use on the locked puzzles. It makes the puzzling feel a bit more fast paced and makes it more managable by focusing on one piece at a time. [*] The artwork is pretty nice. [*] It saves your progress automatically so you don't feel rushed to complete a puzzle in one sitting if you're having troubles or just think you need a break. [/list] [h1]Cons[/h1] [list] [*] After I started to play Ikemen Mode, I found the classic mode to be completely useless. As much as I like classic puzzling, giving you an alternative that's a lot more fun is a way to make the classic choice obsolete. [*] It feels nearly impossible to pick up pieces in Classic Mode. I had to click on pieces so many times to pick them up that I actually thought my mouse was broken. It also seems that you can only pick up the pieces in layers - if I see a piece I want on the bottom of a stack of pieces, I'm not able to pick it up unless I pick up the pieces on top first and move them. I found that the holding down of the mouse to drag the pieces and having to click so aggressively really hurt my fingers after a while. [*] The tray areas are not big enough. Even with a 60 piece puzzle in classic mode, it's hard to find the piece you want because they get stacked in such large piles and it's hard to seperate them. There's not a lot of room to move them in the tray and spread them apart just to see each piece. The other thing that annoys me is that pieces that are on the picture (but not placed) will automatically get placed back into the pile if you hit "shuffle". I think the shuffle function should have been used only for the pieces still in the tray. [*] The clock feature felt sort of stressful. In Ikemen mode, I can understand why it's there since the amount of time left on the clock will award you with bonus currency when you finish the puzzle. The timing is extremely generous and I feel like it's probably impossible to run out of time. In classic mode, however, it's simply not necessary. It serves no purpose, as you are not awarded or punished based upon how much time you've spent on a puzzle. [*] The last achievements requires you to do all puzzles. Not just one size of every puzzle... but all puzzles in ALL sizes. This requires doing each puzzle 6 times (60, 240 and 350 in classic, and then 60, 240 and 350 in Ikemen). This is an absolutely ridiculous time sink and is really unnecessary. [/list]

I have the MidC and DtL apps on my phone and tablet, now I can have a version of the games on my computer. The best thing about this is that I can redo the puzzles anytime I want.

I wish there was a so-so or neutral button. Not my kind of puzzles but that is not a complaint. There are a few plusses and minuses to this puzzle game: + Art is fine and there are several challenge levels to each puzzle + You can connect pieces together even if they are not "in place" yet + Has and interesting game mode where you keep adding pieces from a starting piece. Different and fun - No piece rotation - Annoying constant "hints" that I could not find a way to shut off - Horrible piece manipulation. I had to click on many pieces several times to pick them up and move them The last achievement that requires you to do every puzzle at every size is not actually that unusual. It is just odd since all of the other achievements are so easy.

"Otome Romance Jigsaws - Midnight Cinderella & Destined to Love" ist ein ganz normales Puzzlespiel und man muss keines der beiden Otome-games gespielt haben. Positiv: - Es gibt eine gute Auswahl an ansprechenden Bildern (nichts zu anzügliches ^^) - 2 verschiedene Modi und 3 verschiedene Größen - Es gibt zwar eine Zeitmessung aber beim Ikemen Modus hat man wirklich mehr als genug Zeit und der normale Modus zählt nur wie lange man schon puzzelt Neutral: - Die Charaktere geben mehr oder weniger nützliche Tipps, loben oder tadeln einen - Ikemen Points: Guter Spielansatz aber man bekommt mehr als genug um alle Motive freizuschalten. Wäre schön wenn man mit den ganzen Punkten noch etwas machen könnte - Musik ist ok (typisches Otome-game getüdel halt) kann man leider nur an- und ausschalten und nicht leiser stellen - Relativ wenig Platz um die Puzzleteile zu sortieren aber es gibt eine Funktion die einen zumindest die Randteile rauspickt wenn man sich nicht durch stapelweise Teile durchgraben möchte Negativ: - Steam Errungenschaften sind sehr unsausgeglichen. Man muss jedes Motiv in beiden Modi und in jeder Größe, somit 6x, gepuzzelt haben um die lezte Errungenschaft freizuschalten. Die anderen erhällt man sobald man das Motiv nur 1x gespielt hat. Da fehlt etwas die Langzeitmotivation wenn es ewig keinen Erfolg bis zum letzten gibt und am Anfang alle.

To be honest, I've played some Jingsaw games before and liked them WAY better. Its like some movies you see, you get GREAT special effects, great art and acting, but no real story. It was way better if you had more play in the game like unlocking stuff harder, and more. So, you have +/- 16 puzzles to grab without any trouble, and 4 to unlock,,, you should have done it the opposide way, make people onlock stuff so they get their challenge brains on. So then again, it's not worth more than 3 bucks to me, I bought it in a bundle. But the art is GREAT, just not the game itself for me. Though, the chaining part is fun, but not that challenging. (no heartfeelings, just wanted to give my oppinion)

Achievements Hunters beware, it takes forever to get the last achiev. Apart from that, not a bad game. I also discovered Ikemen with that game, which is a puzzle special mode where you are given a bit and need to put it right now on the puzzle. Interesting mecanic, and it makes the 16 puzzles replayable, in a different way.

在我写这篇评测时 steam上面这个游戏还只有15篇评测，而符合您的语言的则是一篇都没有 嘛其实本来steam上面少女游戏就卖的不咋地 这种拼图类的就更不吃香了 我是蛮喜欢这种画风的 买拼图玩也就是看看图休闲休闲（反正本来日常娱乐就是肝肝文豪 而且它每张图都有各自的出处的 让人看得都想玩游戏了呢 我本身是对拼图比较无感的人 但是玩了这个以后我觉得拼图好像还有点意思嘛 当然1000片我是玩不来的 另外有四张图需要通过你打限时的拼图才能解锁 好像还蛮有挑战性的 不过其实一个小时之内就可以全部解锁 综上 我觉得这游戏还是蛮好的 消磨时间的时候玩玩也不错