Sudokuball Detective

"It's like Sudoku, but as a ball!" I have to imagine there was some sort of brainstorming exercise at Witan Entertainment one day, and some intern threw out the above idea and everyone ran with it. And, well, it definitely IS Sudoku stretched out across a globe but that's really all it is and the new viewing angle doesn't serve any purpose but to make it harder to read the board. It doesn't change the game to be anything but a sloppier version of this already well established thing. The abundance of hand holding also becomes rather annoying, as though it's great for those new to Sudoku there's no way to disable it as far as I could find, and it basically becomes this catch all safety net where you can just try combinations until they turn gold and lock in place signally that you got it right. There's a story (of course there's a story, why wouldn't there be in a Sudoku game?) but I'm pretty sure I'd have a more enjoyable time reading over the Clue instructions a couple dozen times than listening to these odd, clay-like mannequins reciting tired murder mystery cliches and making banal small talk. When the best part of your game is that one of your character seems to be wearing a wig made of Cheetos then you've pretty much left me at rock bottom trying to cling to anything that's even remotely amusing. I used to think that it was pretty impossible to screw up a Sudoku game. Sudoku is such a well understood - thing - that there's not really much more for you to do but make the pen and paper logic puzzle digital. But Sudokuball is that first time for everything. It's presentation is unnecessarily tedious to decipher, low resolution, allows no space for writing down potential numbers, and forces you to use some obnoxious Sudoku training wheels. It managed to make me kind of hate Sudoku, a game I've loved for years but in this form left me reaching desperately for my coffee table book or any of the dozens and dozens of better video game adaptions. That's pretty bad any way you slice it.

Oh God... I wanted it to be good, but it's baaaaad. On the surface it's a little like Safecracker or Puzzle Agent in the, you're a detective of sorts, solving sudoku over puzzles to unravel some mystery, shenanigans. However, the comparison stops there. The resolution options are low, medium, high, wide. I mean come on. What century is this? Ok, so I only messed around in story mode for a short while but the story was pretty uninvolving if I'm honest. The controls are a bit dodgy too. I dropped my mouse sense to 800dpi and it was still difficult to get levels and puzzles to lock into place. The final nail is that the puzzles are laughably easy. Maybe it gets harder later on but I soon grew bored of facing yet another grid where there's really only one square to solve. It just feels a bit lacking. More could have been done with this. And then it hit me. How can you get a simple click and drag control system so wrong? The only possible explanation is that this game was never designed to use a mouse as an input device. The evidence starts to mount up and now I feel like an actual detective. The resolution options, of course! This game was never built for PC. It was built for a smartphone, that's why the cutscenes use still images and have no voice acting. It all becomes clear. This is a half-arsed mobile port and suddenly, the price tag that seemed reasonable starts to feel like a massive ripoff.

Relaxing game. I did not play sudoku much so I can tell you that I'm suck with this type of puzzle but this game still not hard even for noob like me. There are few bugs but easy to fix, just go to main menu and replay, so it's fine by me. The main story is like standard detective novel with nothing surprising at all. Do not expect this game for story, just enjoy sodoku puzzle.

Main Story is beatable in 1-2 hours. very easy for a Sudoku game. There's few gamemodes within Sudoku in Story mode: Clue find - Regular Sudoku without time limit, fill the big square with ? marks. Inspection - Fill the entire Sudokus(9 big squares, 81 tiles) several times Within time limit. Lockpick - Fill the center tile with correct number(4 wrong number to fail), Within the time limit. Chase - Fill the tile with red footprint. Taking more time = more tiles to deal with. The ball rotation with RMB is hard to control, thus it would frustrate you in timed levels. Other than that, control is quite generic for sudokus(number keys and - key work and recommended) I've been a fan of connected sudokus(those are connected at corners), but in Main Story mode they haven't fully used its goodness. In Classic mode it's used well, and plays better than 4 minigames Story mode offered. 7/10, Get it only if you like Sudokus. If you're detective fan, there are better games around.

Meh, got it in a bundle and its ok if you get it really cheap, but overall, I wouldn't go near it at full price. Pick it up if you like somewhat easy sudoku and you can get it for a buck or two (or less) At full price not recommended, at 80-95% off, go for it.

酷いゲーム。 簡単な数独する→文字と絵だけのストーリー進む、これだけしか内容が無い。 スクリーンショットを見るとまるでただの数独では無い新たなルールでも加わってるようだが、そんな物は一切無い。このゲームは簡単な数独問題をひたすら解く事しかできない。 ストーリーと数独には何の関連性もなく、鍵を開けるにも数独、証拠を調べるにも数独と、単に次のシーンの繋ぎに数独が入ってるだけでしか無い。 肝心の数独も、単に数字を入力することしか出来ず、仮の数字を入れておくなどの機能も無いので、紙の上で解くよりも利便性が悪い。 一部シーンでは時間制限や誤入力の回数制限などが加わるだけで、基本的に似たような簡単な問題をひたすら何度も繰り返し解いていく事が求められる。 このゲームに数独要素を期待するなら、もっと他の優れた数独ゲームがあるし、アドベンチャーゲームを期待するならもちろんもっと他のゲームが幾らでもある。このゲームをプレイする理由はどこにも無い。

Чего вы ожидаете от игры, в названии которой есть "детектив" и "судоку"? Интересную историю и сложные варианты судоку. Что же вы получите, приобретя это, хм, поделие? - Ужасный сюжет сам по себе, и ужасная подача оного. - Отвратительная часть связанная с детективом. - Наипростейшие судоку. - От всех этих верчений камеры во время, собственно, игры в судоку меня постоянно мутило. Надо было в название игры ещё дописать "симулятор космонавта". - Управление архиужасно: странная инерция, странный сенс. - Музыка абсолютно не подходить этой игре. - Отвратительный интерфейс. Если верить сайту, то компания-разработчик этого безобразия образовалась в 1992. И, что сайт, что их игры, так и остались на уровне 90-го года. Я, как ни пытался, не смог выделить ни одного положительного аспекта этой игры.

Russian - Хорошо, что я не купил этою игру а словил на раздаче! Игра полный отстой, 7 долларов, пф, да за 1 доллар я бы не купил! Не кидайте свои деньги, на этою глупую игру! Рекомендую ли я эту игру, знак отрицателен! English - Well I bought this game and caught at hand! The game sucks, $ 7, PF, Yes for $ 1 I would not have bought! Don't throw your money on this stupid game! I recommend if I this game, the sign is negative!