Just when you thought that you've already played them all, even classic puzzle games still inspire innovation for their future counterparts. Color Cross is one such innovation, and this time around, it's a whole new twist to the classic game, Picross. The same addictive gameplay is retained, but with a whole new challenge, it becomes an experience worth checking out.
Color Cross is the first game release of the French casual game developer, Little Worlds Studio. As their first release, I'm actually expecting nothing extravagant like most of the games I usually review. This is because I assume production values to be not that high, and with my experience with new development studios, I notice that they focus more on the overall fun factor of the game, and without much eye candy that doesn't serve the gameplay very much.
Anyway, let's take a brief recap of Picross rules because they very much apply also for Color Cross.
The objective of the game is for you to completely color a celled board by using the number clues on its top and left sides. Top number clues indicate colored cells for each column and those numbers on the side indicate colored cells for each row. For example, if there's a number "15" on the top side, it means that there are 15 cells in a straight line on that particular column you need to shade. More numbers at the row or column indicate separate cells you need to shade, with at least a single cell in between them.
Color Cross adds a bit of twist to this simple gameplay by adding in more colors you need to use against the typical single-colored shade in Picross. There are up to 8 colors you must mix and match within a board considering the clues given to you with respect to a particular color. If you're imagining this right, this basically means that by the time you finish with a board, you'll notice a colorful pixel form of an image, which makes it a great accomplishment as you finish each stage.
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