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Phil's Epic Fill-a-Pix Adventure (Nintendo 3DS) Review

Publisher/Developer: Lightwood Games

Price: $7.99

As regular readers know, I'm a big fan of Picross games. But my interest in puzzles extends beyond Picross, of course. I like Picross puzzles because they scratch my itch for solving logic puzzles, and do so in a way that doesn't necessarily demand deep concentration. There are many variations of logic puzzles that I find similar satisfaction in, and like probably many of you, one of the ones I spent the most time with was Minesweeper. In that game, you're presented with a grid filled out with numbers and unrevealed spaces. The numbers indicate how many adjacent squares contain mines. Using this information, you have to logically deduce which squares contain mines and which are safe.

Fill-a-Pix is quite similar to Minesweeper. Instead of seeking out and flagging mines, however, you need to use the numbers to determine which squares on the grid should be colored in. As in Picross, correctly filling in the grid will create a picture of some sort. Grid sizes can be scaled up or down to adjust the difficulty, with larger boards requiring a massive amount of time to untangle. While I don't recall seeing Fill-a-Pix puzzles in any physical puzzle books before (I haven’t picked any of those up in years), I've certainly seen them around online, playable in PC web browsers. I'd venture to say that anyone who enjoys Picross puzzles should enjoy Fill-a-Pix as well.

Phil's Epic Fill-a-Pix Adventure is Lightwood Games's entry in the category. I believe it's the only Fill-a-Pix game available on the Nintendo 3DS, so if nothing else, it has that going for it. The framing device is that Phil has just returned from traveling around the world. He took pictures in various places using his special camera, and he needs your help to develop them. There are ten real-world locations represented in the game, each with ten or more puzzles to solve that show off sights and items found in that place. The puzzles vary in size and complexity, with the largest of the bunch coming in at 100 squares wide. With that many squares in play, the pictures can sometimes be extremely detailed. For example, one of the puzzles in Japan is a hot cup of instant noodles. It's such a large picture that squares are used to shade the cup and make the steam look extra-realistic.

Clear times will obviously vary depending on your skill, but I measured my time spent on each of the larger puzzles in hours, not minutes. In total, you're looking at a length comparable to a full-length RPG, if not longer. The opening set of puzzles alone took me several hours of playtime. It's hard to argue with the value for your money here. You'll likely get your fill of Fill-a-Pix by the time you reach the end of it all. Like many collections of logic puzzles, however, it can be very difficult to stop playing. You can hardly leave a puzzle partly finished, and it's all too easy to start up the next one as soon as you've finished the last.

My main criticism of Phil's Epic Fill-a-Pix Adventure is somewhat related to the size of the puzzles, actually. While the blank pictures vary in size on the menu screen, that doesn't seem to have any direct connection to the actual size of the puzzle. Perhaps you're looking for a shorter puzzle and choose the smallest frame from the menu. Well, you might have picked the simplest one, but you may have also signed up for a behemoth. Until you hop in, you can't know. There's no penalty for quitting after you've picked a puzzle, so it's as easy as pausing and hitting a button to go back out, but I would have preferred a little more information about this on the puzzle select screen. I also would have liked it if there were more quick puzzles, as I found the balance of the included puzzles heavily tilted towards the multi-hour ones.

One neat thing that Lightwood Games did is to allow the player to use a larger brush and an auto-fill button if they wish. Basically, if you use this tool, solving the puzzle is just a matter of sniffing out the right spots on the map and hitting the button to automatically fill in the only logical squares. Should that prove too arduous a task, you can also hit the shoulder buttons for a clue as to where the next solvable location on the grid can be found. I don't recommend using any of these tools unless you're truly looking for something mindless, however. It sucks the challenge out of the game entirely. I greatly appreciate the developer providing these kinds of options for the player, though. It's always nice when you can choose your level of challenge without losing access to any content.

The game is played in its entirety with buttons. It works well enough, but I would have liked the option to use touch controls. It feels strange to play a puzzle game like this without that sort of option available. I also would have appreciated it if there were a couple more pieces of background music to choose from. The one piece that is in the game is quite nice, but as mentioned, this is a bit of a long haul. A little musical variety would have been nice. While I'm picking nits, I also would have liked it if there were a little more fanfare upon finishing a puzzle. The music doesn't even stop, and you more or less just get dumped back to the menu after a simple overlay appears telling you what the image is and how long you took to finish it.

At any rate, the puzzles are the important thing here, and they're quite good. The theme works nicely, and I was happy to see that the subjects didn't just consist of the usual suspects for each location. There's a ton of content here for the price, and the basic concept behind Fill-a-Pix is more than strong enough to keep your attention for hours on end. While it's missing a few options and features that I feel would have made for a more solid overall experience, little of that matters when you're in the thick of uncovering an amazingly-detailed monochrome image, piece by piece. If you like logic puzzles, this one should certainly be up your alley. You can find Phil’s Epic Fill-a-Pix Adventure on the Nintendo 3DS eShop for $7.99.

Disclosure: Lightwood Games provided me with a free digital copy of this game for review purposes.

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Fill-a-Pix: Phil's Epic Adventure Vita/PS4 Review

Fill-a-Pix: Phil’s Epic Adventure Vita/PS4 Review

Fill-a-Pix: Phil’s Epic Adventure is a minesweeper and picross logic puzzle game available for download from the PlayStation Store for the PS4 and Vita. Lightwood Games are specialists in puzzle games involving word searches, picross and more besides. Can Fill-a-Pix: Phil’s Epic Adventure deliver an entertaining minesweeper and picross logic puzzle game?

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Fill-a-Pix: Phil's Epic Adventure Review

Fill-a-Pix: Phil’s Epic Adventure Review

Game: Fill-a-Pix System: Switch Developer: Lightwood Games Publisher: Lightwood Games Age Rating: E (3+ in Europe) Regular Price: £6.99 | $7.99 | € 7,99 Release Date: 12th July 2018 (The game is also available on 3DS in the US)

Overall Feeling: I like it alot!

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Storyline

Phil has travelled the world. He has travelled to 12 countries, photographed…

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Phil's Epic Fill-a-Pix Adventure

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Reseña: Fill-a-Pix: Phil's Epic Adventure (Nintendo Switch).

La Aventura épica de Phil vio la luz originalmente en Nintendo 3DS a finales del año pasado. Pero, Lightwood Games (creadores del juego) consideraron pertinente contar esta historia a un mayor número de personas en la consola Nintendo Switch, misma que aumenta su base instalada a pasos agigantados con el paso de los meses.

¿QUIÉN, CÓMO Y DÓNDE?

Phil es un trotamundos que ha recorrido muchos sitios turísticos alrededor del mundo, y documentó cada uno de sus viajes en fotografías, las cuales tenemos que revelar con el uso de nuestras habilidades.

Para hacer el revelado de las fotografías tenemos pistas numéricas, y el ejemplo más ilustrativo es el famoso buscaminas, exacto, ese juego que viene preinstalado en las computadoras con Windows que dominaron los años 90, y que posiblemente aún lo incluyan en ese sistema operativo al día de hoy, no lo sé.

El tutorial que acompaña al juego es muy didáctico, es decir, cualquiera puede entender la mecánica con solo darle una mirada. Parece muy complejo, pero hay una herramienta que parece ser opcional, pero que es obligatoria para entender mejor el juego y lograr avanzar en el juego de forma audaz, y es el Smart Cursor, que más que una ayuda, es un elemento primordial en esta aventura.

Tras terminar el tutorial, podemos elegir entre varios países, por lo que inmediatamente me dirigí a mi México lindo y querido, sin saber que es uno de los sitios más complejos y avanzados dentro del título. Para que se den una idea, me tomó alrededor de una hora terminar un puzle. De ese tamaño, señoritas y señores.

Definitivamente, es el mejor título de Lightwood Games, al menos de los que he tenido la fortuna de probar. La historia de Phil es sencilla, pero a la vez muy ingeniosa para ir llenando el álbum fotográfico, e ir descubriendo su recorrido, así como sus hazañas. El modo de juego te atrapa desde el primer momento que entiendes el modo de juego. Los controles son precisos, la música puede ser un elemento que nos lleve a la desesperación, pero está la opción de apagarla y resolverlo en silencio para concentrarnos de forma óptima.

En fin, Fill-a-Pix: Phil's Epic Adventure es un juego que amarán los amantes de los puzzles, y si no es mi favorito, es debido a que ya existe Picross S en Switch. No me crean, tan solo descarguen el demo y dense cuenta por ustedes mismos de toda la magia transformada en un juego digital.

CALIFICACIÓN: 8.5/10.0

PLATAFORMA: NINTENDO SWITCH

FORMATO: DIGITAL (NINTENDO ESHOP)

FECHA DE LANZAMIENTO (US): 12 DE JULIO DE 2018

DESARROLLADOR: LIGHTWOOD GAMES (@lightwoodgames)

PRECIO: US$7.99

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The show kicks off with Royal Sefton joining to review real time action strategy Sudden Strike 4: European Battlefields Edition from Kite Games & Kalypso Media as well as the possession friendly Metroidvania Ghost 1.0 from Unepic Fran.

Pernell Vaughan reviews card battling strategy game Insane Robots from Playniac as well as strategic bicycle racer Tour de France 2018 from Cyanide Studio & Focus Home Interactive and mech battler Assault Gunners HD Edition from Honey Parade Games & Marvelous Entertainment.

Jacob Garner reviews retro inspired racer Wheelspin Frenzy from Mental Moose Games.

Chris Taylor covers the bite sized RTS battles of Mushroom Wars 2 from Zillion Whales, plus action platformer Miles & Kilo from Four Horses and picture logic puzzler Fill-a-Pix: Phil's Epic Adventure from Lightwood Games.

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Mini-Review: Phil’s Epic Fill-a-Pix Adventure (Nintendo 3DS)

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Phil's Epic Fill-a-Pix Adventure invites you to enjoy the glory that is thinking inside the box. Phil has been around the world and needs you to develop his photos for him. You do this by solving pixel puzzles of varying size. The game is not linear, so you're free to choose from multiple...

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Phils Epic Fill-A-Pix Adventure review - ChristCenteredGamer

Fill-A-Pix is a combination of Picross and Minesweeper. On the puzzle board, youll see lots of numbers and they represent the total of squares in a nine block radius that must be shaded in. For example, if you see a zero, you can shade it along with all of the surrounding squares in gray. On the flip side, a number nine will need a majority of the blocks filled in with black. Since these photos are monochrome, you will only need to color them black or gray. from N4G: all news feed http://ift.tt/2AF0ztM from Blogger http://ift.tt/2BuEFqr