Picture Cross Color

I just finished playing a “super-hard” puzzle in “Paris Pack - Color!” in the original Picture Cross. It was a fully enjoyable experience. I have been playing Picture Cross for a number of years and can truly say it is one of my favorite games. When you added the color packs to the original game, I couldn’t wait for more. Needless to say, I was excited when you added Picture Cross Color. Alas! Although I do play it, I find it a less than satisfying experience. A couple of times I have almost deleted it. Two games with the same rules and same strategy; what is the problem? The problem is with the execution of the game. In the original game’s color packs the player picks the space and then fills it with a color or an x. One also has the use of the pin tool in order to fill multiple spaces or even rows. I have never accidentally erased previous work and the play runs smoothly. In Picture Cross Color, I frequently accidentally erase previously filled spaces. Also I am frustrated because the last move may have finished several adjacent rows but I can’t finish adding the x’s all at once. Please consider changing the play in Picture Cross Color to the same technique as the color packs in the original game. I can guarantee that it will become one of my favorite games.

Definitely a fun game. Waited a while to post a review so I could be accurate :). So, right off the bat, Make a purchase. Doesn’t mater how small, do it. ANY purchase removes the unsolicited ads (you can still watch them for extra or free tokens or coins). Other then that, it is definitely a game you don’t have to pay for to play at all. (But save the headache, definitely was worth the couple bucks.). Now, i wish the tokens and coins given as rewards were more even instead of way more coins then tokens…. But still being able to turn around and use the coins to replay levels for tokens is working just fine. The daily token rewards are great especially when you log in daily even if just to snag your daily rewards. I liked that they seem to have events pretty frequently giving you more levels to complete, which brings me to my second complaint…. I had to wait several weeks for new levels to unlock, (but when they came out with more, they opened two new stages of levels so that was cool), but i was able to rack up all those daily tokens during then. Definitely worth the download though for sure. It’s never really given me any issues or had any glitches.

The pixel art style of the game and interface is very nice. The puzzle interface is not feature rich, but decently functional. When you’ve filled all blocks in a row or column, you can tap on the list of that column or row to fill in Xs. It would be nice to be able to mark that only specific colors won’t go in that square. The game uses key gems to unlock puzzles, but while it is ad supported, if you are low on them it will give you more to unlock the next puzzle, rather than locking you out like other apps might. UPDATE: this only happened for me in the first chapter grouping. After that you can get 1 gem for waiting 3 minutes, or wait for the next daily reward. I have an iPhone 7. The app can take a long time to load. Maybe 30 seconds? I haven’t timed it. I have also had multi-second freezes while in a puzzle. It’s an older device, but games like Sky still work pretty well on low settings. There is plenty of optimization to do for a pixel art UI. Also, if it offers you key gems for completing a puzzle, or more if you watch an ad, but then it can’t find an ad to serve you, it will lock up and you will need to restart the app.