{"id":128558,"date":"2022-10-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-138206"},"modified":"2022-10-02T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:00:00","slug":"mini-review-picross-s8-four-player-picross-its-absolute-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/02\/mini-review-picross-s8-four-player-picross-its-absolute-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Review: Picross S8 &#8211; Four-Player Picross? It&#8217;s Absolute Madness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/392df66131da8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/392df66131da8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed pictures\" id=\"screenshots\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/screenshots\/128444\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/screenshots\/128444\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"PICROSS S8 Review - Screenshot 1 of 8\"><\/a><\/aside>\n<p>In a series as focused on multiplayer as <strong>Picross S<\/strong>, it\u2019s always seemed odd that Nintendo and Jupiter haven&#8217;t allowed more than two players to be playing at the same time. We\u2019ve lost track of how many times we\u2019ve played Picross on our Switch during a major social event and could only have one other person participating, while everyone else in the room simply had to stare on wistfully and wait their turn. Lucky for us, the technology has finally been developed to allow for up to <em>four<\/em> players to play at once. This means that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/picross_s8\">Picross S8<\/a> is at least <em>twice<\/em> as good as the last several games.<\/p>\n<p>The basic premise this time around follows blue and red cursor who discover that their parents, green and yellow cursor, have broken out of prison and are dead set on getting revenge for being framed by their children. See, there are even four characters! You do have to fill in all of the gaps yourself\u2014there isn&#8217;t a single line of written or spoken dialogue <em>anywhere<\/em> nor are there any cutscenes after all. We&#8217;re entirely joking, of course&#8211;but with four players, there&#8217;s plenty of opportunity for gut-wrenching plot twists and payoffs that have been years in the making with your friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, in the gameplay department, this is certainly Picross. Where else can you spend five minutes parsing a confusing, but completely logical set of numbers to painstakingly craft a pixel art recreation of a urinal? But now that there can be up to four simultaneous players, you can almost certainly blame <em>someone else<\/em> for making a mistake when you get thirty minutes into a puzzle and realize all the progress you\u2019ve collectively made in the last twenty minutes was a lie. That alone is worth the price of admission.<\/p>\n<p>Playing with four characters can be a cumbersome mess\u2014a moving cursor always stops dead in its tracks if it meets another one\u2014but there\u2019s something about the chaos that\u2019s quite alluring. Even if you are all technically working toward a common goal, there\u2019s certainly little cooperation going on here, as every player\u2019s filled-in squares are tallied and added to their point total in real-time. Most importantly, if you erase someone else\u2019s square and fill it back in yourself, their score goes down and yours goes up. We thus experienced a few puzzles that quickly devolved into seizing and defending real estate, the actual puzzle solution be damned. It\u2019s like an extremely primitive version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/splatoon\"><strong>Splatoon<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a few hundred more puzzles to add to the collection of what must be over a <em>thousand<\/em> by now, then Picross S8 is the game for you. If a good entry point is what you&#8217;re after, Picross S8 is a decent spot, but we\u2019d recommend you at least watch the first two seasons of the anime to get a somewhat decent grasp of the premise. Anyway, this game radiates so much power that it made the preceding seven games (or ten, if you count the spin-offs) <em>better<\/em> through updates that added universal touch support and four-player multiplayer. So go buy it. Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series as focused on multiplayer as Picross S, it\u2019s always seemed odd that Nintendo and Jupiter haven&#8217;t allowed more than two players to be playing at the same time. We\u2019ve lost track of how many times we\u2019ve played Picross on our Switch during a major social event and could only have one other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}