what does logic pro do besides add a map i just remember the picross part, which IS the actual game to me 
oh yeah items
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youāre on a time limit, you get a little bit of time when you fill in a correct square, and lose a big chunk of time when you fill in a wrong square
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oh god thats horrible, no wonder i memory holed it. i play picross to relax
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Thatās the thing about the modern Minesweeper games. They are actually good now and you never have to guess. Your memory of the old game being bad is correct.
I think Hexcells was the first game to get it right, though I could be mistaken about that. It has a few sequels as well. If you were to play only one of them Iād say go with Hexcells Infinite.
If you want a very difficult one with a lot of variety, thereās Tametsi.
In the opposite direction, if you want a more casual experience then Proverbs is a good choice. Itās kind of like a jigsaw puzzle in that you look around for spots you can play more than engaging in a lot of deduction. (But thereās still enough of that to keep it interesting.)
There are two others in that series but Iām in no hurry to try them because Proverbs was quite a time sink.
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yeah im gonna play proverbs first and then try the harder ones. i just wrote out minesweeper completely until a week ago!
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If you get bored with Proverbs at some point but like the idea of it, some of the others do more mechanically. Though I like the gimmick of Proverbs.
Hereās another one thatās both very basic and ridiculously hard, depending on which puzzle type you choose. Thereās a sequel, too, but both are totally bare-bones aesthetically.
Another easy one that would be a decent choice to start with is Hexceed. It looks like the base game is even free now. (There are tons of DLC sets, but youāll likely be done with the game well before you care about collecting many of those.) I like the music in Hexceed (and in Proverbs, for that matter).
The thing that elevates Hexcells above Hexceed (other than Hexcells doing it first and deserving the credit for that) is that Hexceed goes on too long with nearly identical puzzles. It doesnāt require you to complete them all before moving on to the next gimmick but if youāre a completionist that might be an issue.
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Marioās Picross for GB was my first picross game so i was surprised to learn they dont usually time penalize u
i got so hooked on picross for a minute lolā¦ time to go back for more
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Thatās presuming I can win anyā¦
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This sounds like it is made for me, gotta try this out asap, I love suffering in a picross
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oh yeah temetsi is TOUGH. i feel like every other puzzle i have to have an epiphany iāve never had about minesweeper before. i have to be in the mood but i still fire it up sometimes. iām 8 hours in and have only completed 38 puzzles out of like 150+.
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Iām considering getting caught up on post SA2 sonic games.
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Tametsi is the best of that particular flavor of logic game, but it is also the hardest by far. It is still my most played Steam game with 85 hours clocked in, and I only played each puzzle once.
Re: Proverbs beyond it having a sizable demo the same dev also released a different giant minesweeper game for free a couple months later that was also a year 2024 wrap-up if you wanted to try something like that before buying in (or if you wanted more of it).
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Decided to shuffle games one more time and play some more of the other recent insanely expensive, investor disappointing Star Wars game, Jedi Survivor.
That gameā¦is pretty damn good. Iām still bad at this sort of thing (I can parry Stormtroopers no problem, but the, uh, Jungle Wampas gave me a lot of trouble), but itās fun.
I spent my rare metal currency this time around on a mohawk, so the big dramatic battle with the long sealed up one armed High Council era Jedi who goes dark side and flips out at you was done looking like a dude who knocks back beers and probably opens them with his pink lightsaber, too.
I also wanted to play this to mess around with that Lossless Scaling thing again, since the in-game Frame Gen doesnāt really work that well for me. Wasnāt getting great results with 2x (which inserts one frame), so I tried for 3x and it worked. Super smooth 100 FPS for the most part.
Iāll probably hone in on Ratchet & Clank, then Jedi Survivor, then Outlaws. But yeah, all three are pretty good.
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Yeah I amā¦ a good many hours into Jedi Survivor now and despite some graphical hiccups on the PS5 and it making me aware whenever I pull up the holomap that I have some very mild right stick drift it is clearly approaching the best case of whatever it was ever gonna be. First game was very much an obvious pastiche of the games it was clearly inspired by and little more than that, now you can still tell but it at least has more of its own feel (basically they turned the Dark Souls down by 20% and made the Uncharted climbing a bit more involved at times). I donāt know if there is enough to convert anyone who simply dislikes all AAA gaming, but it is one of the better ones Iāve personally played in a bit.
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also one thing that makes it much much better than uncharted imo is that itās not nearly as sticky, the jumping and climbing feels much more like Jak and Daxter or something than it does uncharted and the environments successfully give the impression of being more free form, because some very smart designer realized that making it feel like a 3D platformer first and a cinematic brawler second was actually an open lane that worked pretty well with a Jedi character
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Immediately drawn into proverbs, what a treat
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same! proverbs has been a blast. gonna nab all the free games too
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I kinda feel like Hollow Knight changed the environment for metrovania games when it came out and part of that was having something like 45 boss encounters in it.
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Yeah to me Metroid Dread felt like another victim of the āEverything has to be Dark Souls nowā fad
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