The time has come for another Picross review. The fourth Picross game on the eShop (fifth if you count that stupidly restricted-availability Club Nintendo one), what makes this one stand out? Oh and by the way, I found out the other day Japan is getting another, better Nintendo-themed Picross game that’s even more exclusive as you need Platinum status… whatever that means. Why won’t you let me give you money, you awful company?

Erm, anyway. What’s this one about? Well, it’s like the past ones, but seems like a culmination of them. A sort of best-of. Although now we have e5 coming too, but whatever. The point is, this one includes Micross puzzles from e2, Mega Picross from e3, and has extra reward puzzles if you have save data from the previous games on your 3DS. It could perhaps be a good introduction to the different things on offer in the series, and would then reward you for getting the past ones.

Of course, the trade-off is it only has two Micross, which are the best ones. The reward puzzles are Mega Picross, which will be bad news if you hated those. I found them refreshing, but I was glad there were lots of normal ones too. They’re also all lumped together instead of in Normal Mode and Free Mode categories, letting you choose at will whether to use Normal or Free rules for all puzzles. This instalment also features a page of bigger puzzles, 20x15.

Overall I’d say it’s the best one yet, especially if you’ve played the previous ones as it seems to have the most improvements, and synthesises modes from them. If you’re as hooked as me though, just get all of them! And wait anxiously for e5! Mmm, Picross.