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Review: Slitherlink

by on Mar.21, 2007, under The Rest

I had to be forced to play it. Forced, because my life had been taken over by 1994’s Mario’s Picross, run on a Gameboy emulator. This was November last year, and it was my first encounter with the block filling puzzles, each so perfectly formed and satisfying to complete. What more could I want from my spare-time fiddling?

But the good Reverend Campbell in his liturgical wisdom forced me to take a break from the Picross frenzy and check out Hudson’s fifth game in their Japanese Puzzle Series, Slitherlink. I had a quick look, found the concept less immediately obvious than Picross, and immediately went back. I was on Picross 2 by then, and taking on the huge grids of Wario’s puzzles, where wrong answers were ignored to make the challenge even more tough. I can’t remember what it was that had me give Slitherlink another go, perhaps more reverential pestering, but, well, I haven’t done a Picross since.

This could be interesting.

EDIT: Apparently Play Asia have sold out of Slitherlink since this review was posted an hour and a half ago : )


1 Comment for this entry

  • Mike
    March 22nd, 2007 on 08:55

    It sold me, I placed a YesAsia order last night. I sat down to take a look at one on the Puzzle Loop website, and thought it was a bit of an odd thing to make a puzzle out of – I was sure there was at least a dozen ways to solve the eight by eight grid in front of me. Took me fifteen minutes to get a frigging solution.

    Very curious game indeed.

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