Picross Bonbon - Nonogram

Micro-transaction filled mobile game.

"Picross Bonbon - Nonogram" is a basic Nonogram game... for those who never played one, it's a kind of grid-deduction-puzzle game, not unlike Minecraft or Sudoku. You're given a grid and a number of numerical clues. You must deduce where the safe places to click are. In a Nonogram, the correct clicks will reveal a small, obviously low resolution image or pattern. Yay, what fun. This is why top of the line gaming PCs costs thousands of dollars, right? The developer, Creobit, has copy + pasted this game an insane FOURTY ONE TIMES... why cash in on one asset if you can cash in on multiple copies of the same game? Asset flipping begins at home! Here's a list of the asset flips of this game that the Russian "developer" is polluting Steam with: [list] [*] Asian Riddles 1, 2, 3 + 4 [*] Christmas Griddlers [*] Christmas Griddlers Journey to Santa [*] Detective Riddles - Sherlock's Heritage 1 + 2 [*] Easter Riddles [*] Egypt Picross Pharaohs Riddles [*] Fill And Cross Christmas Riddles [*] Fill and Cross Magic Journey [*] Fill and Cross Pirate Riddles 1, 2 + 3 [*] Fill and Cross Royal Riddles [*] Fill and Cross Trick or Treat 1, 2 + 3 [*] Fill and Cross World Contest [*] Griddlers Beach Season [*] Griddlers Legend Of The Pirates [*] Griddlers TED and PET 1 + 2 [*] Griddlers Victorian Picnic [*] Halloween Patchwork Trick or Treat [*] Halloween Riddles Mysterious Griddlers [*] Magic Griddlers 1 + 2 [*] Olympus Griddlers [*] Picross Beach Paradise [*] Picross Bonbon - Nonogram (this game) [*] Picross Fairytale - nonogram: Red Riding Hood secret [*] Picross Fairytale: Legend of the Mermaid [*] Picross Hansel and Gretel - Nonograms [*] Riddle of the mask [*] Royal Riddles [*] Santa's Toy Factory Nonograms [*] Thanksgiving Day Griddlers [*] Valentine's Day Griddlers 1 + 2 [/list] [i][b]These are all reskins of exactly the same game![/b][/i] From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The game features extremely lazy, minimalist "art", of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio (with crappy "wings" to pad out the space). It's possible they developed this using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game has been specifically designed for people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes this might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. "Picross Bonbon - Nonogram" has the gamer gouging price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.

値段以上に遊べました えんえんとやっちゃうから実績達成で完了とします！

Microtransactions to use features. Not a fan...

[u]Recommendation[/u]: Good value for a while, but eventually I stopped enjoying it when the puzzles could no longer be solved with logic alone. [u]Review[/u]: You are exploring the world's desserts, sampling sweets all over the world as you travel across abstracted, goofy versions of several continents. Completing each puzzle reveals a picture of some dessert or dessert-related item: a bonbon, an ice cream cone, a gumball machine, and so forth. As with any freemium game, you can play the entire game for free from beginning to end, or you can buy coins (which are used to travel) or hints for real money. The puzzles quickly get difficult enough that using a hint will be really tempting, but you can use the coins that accumulate for free over time as well. I tried to complete one puzzle a day, and at that rate I never had to pay money, and my ability to use logic to determine which spaces have to be part of the picture and which spaces cannot be part of the picture - the whole point of nonogram puzzles - was sufficient to complete every puzzle...up until a point. Unfortunately for me, I am simultaneously working my way through two other nonogram puzzle games, and I have played several others in the past. This game suffers in the comparison. There are a bunch of little things done in other nonogram games that in this Picross Bonbon game are either inferior or flat-out missing. Together these little things eventually added up to my realization that I was continuing to play not because I was enjoying the game but because I was reluctant to give up on something I'd started. That coincided with a big step up in difficulty of the puzzles the game was presenting. But I *did* enjoy this game to begin with; the puzzles on the first continent represent a nice progression in difficulty, without being so complex that the UI issues and missing features scream in your face. I think it's pretty good value at first, and then that diminishes the further you get in the game. [u]Critique[/u]: First of all, I should point out that this game has a user interface seemingly modeled after mobile games. I don't know if it is a port of a mobile game or a game that was simultaneously released across different platforms, but there's a bunch of mobile game features present here. This isn't a huge issue for me, but I know it is a sticking point for some. For example, there's the three-star rating system for each puzzle: complete a puzzle and you are awarded one, two, or three stars. There's also a goofy menu system of nested screens, so if you want to quit the game, you have to bring up the menu, select the map icon, return to the map, then click the "return/go back" arrow, return to the title screen, then click the "X" icon to quit the game...rather than the usual game convention of bringing up the ESC menu and selecting "Quit." Like I said, it's a lot of little things like this that ultimately make the game irritating to play. But I could overlook those if the gameplay interface was better. For better or worse (I say worse), the puzzle gameplay in Picross Bonbon is the closest to what I imagine playing a nonogram in a book or newspaper would be like: the interface doesn't tell you whether you've put the marks in the correct place, nor does it tell you whether you've completed a row or column correctly. It will tell you that the conditions of the row or column have been met: you have put in 8 - 2 - 5 - 1 in that column...but you could have put them in randomly, and they could be completely incorrect. However, the biggest, most egregious foul in the nonogram gameplay to my mind is that you will eventually reach puzzles where you have to GUESS (or use a hint). One should absolutely never, EVER have to guess when solving a logic puzzle. When you work on solving a logic puzzle, you need to KNOW that if you are guessing in that logic puzzle, you're missing something. But in this game, you WILL get to the point where you have to make a blind choice between two or three possible locations for a mark, and then you have to play through a bunch more of the puzzle before you discover whether you guessed correctly. Of course, you can consider that your guess might be a bit more "educated" if you consider the picture that is being formed and choose something that fits better with the image. Your mileage may vary, but this is just terrible to me. I suspect that the game designers want to present you with situations where you can't know what the right choice is, or reason out the correct choice, so that you will spend currency on hints that will reveal the truth to you without ever showing you WHY you mark one space and not another. That idea - that you would make a logic puzzle that cannot be solved by logic - is so filthy to me I had a hard time getting my fingers to type it through my disgust. I couldn't believe it at first, but then the situation where I had to guess started recurring more and more often. It's not a fluke. It's a very broken feature of the game. I hate giving up on a game without finishing it, but here I could not finish it without guessing or using "hints" to solve it for me. So I'm going to have to give up on this one.

Damn I can't believe I finally finished this. Officially my 2nd most played game on Steam o.o Going into this I knew it was a mobile port, so I wasn't expecting *much*, maybe the other reviewers didn't know that, but either way I think "mostly negative" is a tad bit harsh. Yeah the game is very very basic, it lacks pretty much all the basic things you'd expect from a nonogram: - Doesn't cross off completed numbers/hints. You don't even get the option to do it yourself. - No accessibility settings at all, even basic stuff like background colour change/font size etc. - Like stated above, the font size is TINY on bigger nonograms, for basically no reason as there is 100% space for them to be larger. I often confused 8 with 6 as well as 3 and 5 ALL the time and it of course isn't a good thing to get the numbers wrong. - In my opinion the "what line you have hovered over" indicator needs to be waaay darker. I struggled to see which line I was on often. - Puzzle sizes are random (apart from maybe the first few), so sometimes you get thrown a bunch of easy, and then a lot of hards, no matter where you are in progress. If that's your thing then cool, but sometimes you just wanna do one or the other. You can't skip ahead on levels so you can't just go pick another level either. - It's very easy to mess up and click a square by accident, so you either clear it or turn it into an x/filled. Literally every other nonogram game I've played stops you being able to paint over X's. - A lot of wording is clearly from the mobile game which they haven't bothered changing for the PC version, like "tap" instead of click. - Lack of title/description for finished pictures. Sometimes I still had no idea what they were even when they were completed/coloured in. There's honestly probably a bunch more things I've forgotten. But all I'm really saying is the game is very very basic, but I clearly enjoyed it hence the 130 hours playtime, so rating badly would just be stupid of me. That doesn't mean I can't advise you against playing, because imo there are plenty of better nonogram games on Steam (I just happened to have already played most of them already).

I'm still playing for some inexplicable reason, but there are much better picross/nonogram games out there. If you're stuck on a puzzle, there is no way to progress other than to just keep trying or pay more money. This model is common in mobile games but unexpected and frustrating in Steam games.

画面很可爱，地图上Q弹的果冻超萌，作为数图类游戏算比较复杂的，错误时没有提示。 不知为何，明明已经获取了其它所有成就，最后一个“获取全部奖杯”的成就无论如何都点不亮，可能是个BUG，成就控慎入……