The newest recreation within the Picross collection is coming to Swap later this month, and it’s a crossover version.
Picross S Doraemon & F Characters Version is predicated on the work of Hiroshi Fujimoto, higher referred to as his pen title Fujiko F Fujio.
Because the title suggests, essentially the most notable of Fujimoto’s characters is Doraemon, the robotic cat who’s been showing in manga, anime and video video games since 1969.
The sport, which might be launched on March 26, will price $10.99 / £9.89 and encompasses a whole of 200 puzzles, spanning the Picross, Mega Picross, Shade Picross and Clip Picross modes usually seen within the Picross S collection.
A free demo is accessible for the sport now on the Nintendo Swap eShop, permitting gamers to strive it out in the event that they’ve by no means performed a Picross recreation earlier than.
Also called nonograms, Picross puzzles current gamers with a grid, round that are numerical clues. Through the use of these clues gamers have to make use of logic to determine which squares on the grid needs to be colored in, and which needs to be left clean. If all of the squares are appropriately colored, a picture is revealed.
There have been 10 normal Picross S video games launched on the Swap eShop, in addition to plenty of spin-offs primarily based on the likes of Sega Mega Drive and Grasp System video games, Namco video games, the Overlord anime and the Kemono Mates franchise.
Previous Picross crossover titles on earlier techniques have included Pokémon Picross, Sanrio Characters Picross, Pictlogica Remaining Fantasy and My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, all of which had been launched on 3DS.
Earlier this week Nintendo added Sport Boy title Mario’s Picross to its Swap On-line library of retro video games. Mario’s Picross was the primary recreation within the collection, one developer Jupiter continues to work on to this present day.
In a uncommon interview with VGC in 2023, Jupiter president Hirofumi Murakami and Norichika Meguro defined to us how its crossover Picross video games are initially instigated.
“It’s nearly all the time us who approaches the licence holder, going ‘hey, why don’t we do that’,” Meguro informed us. “Initially we often take into consideration one thing easy, like a normal Picross recreation with the collaboration built-in. However with the Remaining Fantasy and Pokémon Picross video games, they wished to ensure every universe was expressed effectively inside the Picross universe.”
“With the Remaining Fantasy one it was truly Sq. Enix who approached us and requested: ‘Why don’t you guys create a Remaining Fantasy-themed Picross on cellular? It might be attention-grabbing, would you possibly prefer to put a proposal collectively for us?’,” Murakami defined. “For Pokemon, we had been simply fortunate as a result of it was superb timing, however the bar was very excessive to make that occur.”
