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A very serviceable sudoku
posted by heimburg (ORLANDO, FL) Jul 18, 2006
Member since Jun 2005
3 out of 3 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
I've been looking forward to a stylus-based DS Sudoku game, and this one doesn't disappoint... too much. If you don't know how to play Sudoku yet, there's a tutorial, and some very easy (auto-cheaty) tutorial levels to guide you into it.
Using the stylus is very intuitive; you pick a square, then you pick what number to go into that square. You can also put numbers into the corners of each square. You can only write one number in each corner, though, which can sometimes be frustrating on the hard puzzles. And while you can, of course, erase numbers, there's no way to automatically erase ALL the corners at once. You have to click each corner separately and erase it, which can be a pain. But it's pretty intuitive. And a nice feature is if you tap a number, it highlights that number everywhere else it shows up on the board. This is a real time saver over the pencil and paper game!
The number of puzzles is limited. There are 80 easy, 190 medium, and 120 hard puzzles. That's not infinite, but it's plenty for a renter. And you can save a game and continue it later, which works great.
There are two cons to the game. First, the handwriting recognition feature is terrible. It defaults to being turned off, and you should just leave it that way. Fortunately you can play just fine with the intuitive click-number menus.
Second, and I really don't normally complain about this in games, but the music is really terrible! It's the worst muzak I've heard in a game. I wish that I could turn down the volume on the music without lowering the sound-effects volume, but I can't. So I end up playing with all the sound completely off. That's my biggest disappointment.
If you like Sudoku, this is a great renter. Just bring along your iPod when you play.
Using the stylus is very intuitive; you pick a square, then you pick what number to go into that square. You can also put numbers into the corners of each square. You can only write one number in each corner, though, which can sometimes be frustrating on the hard puzzles. And while you can, of course, erase numbers, there's no way to automatically erase ALL the corners at once. You have to click each corner separately and erase it, which can be a pain. But it's pretty intuitive. And a nice feature is if you tap a number, it highlights that number everywhere else it shows up on the board. This is a real time saver over the pencil and paper game!
The number of puzzles is limited. There are 80 easy, 190 medium, and 120 hard puzzles. That's not infinite, but it's plenty for a renter. And you can save a game and continue it later, which works great.
There are two cons to the game. First, the handwriting recognition feature is terrible. It defaults to being turned off, and you should just leave it that way. Fortunately you can play just fine with the intuitive click-number menus.
Second, and I really don't normally complain about this in games, but the music is really terrible! It's the worst muzak I've heard in a game. I wish that I could turn down the volume on the music without lowering the sound-effects volume, but I can't. So I end up playing with all the sound completely off. That's my biggest disappointment.
If you like Sudoku, this is a great renter. Just bring along your iPod when you play.
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