Puzzle Vacations: Japan > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

Overall rating

5 / 5

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Puzzle Vacations: Japan

PostedJanuary 11, 2023

andrewhow110

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

5 / 5

I enjoy playing games through this developer just like the Irish game I learnt about Ireland and now I have jumped to the Orient and learnt about Japan I enjoy playing geography games because I like to learn about different countries and the Orient made a change for me with the music and buildings

I recommend this game!

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4 / 5

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Pretty Good

PostedJanuary 10, 2023

somegeek

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Card & Board, Puzzle

Current Favorite:

Jigsaws Galore

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Fun Factor

4 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

5 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

I agree overall with HeavenBound. The pictures do lack a bit in the 'really awesome' category, but overall I do like the pictures on offer.

Everything she said about cities, food and animals I also noticed. I did not have the issue with the music getting blocked. The music is quite pleasant, and relaxing, which is great for someone who has a stressful job like I do.

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I agree overall with HeavenBound. The pictures do lack a bit in the 'really awesome' category, but overall I do like the pictures on offer.

Everything she said about cities, food and animals I also noticed. I did not have the issue with the music getting blocked. The music is quite pleasant, and relaxing, which is great for someone who has a stressful job like I do.

The rest of the categories are actually much better: scenery, castles and the unfortunately-named 'other' category, which I think is the biggest one. There are nice pictures in this game and most of them seem pretty okay to great.

There are some pictures that I think will be quite challenging with max rotation, even though we are again limited to 400 pieces (if one chooses a traditional jigsaw cut). There are some forest scenes that I think could take a person quite a long time to do.

The overall gameplay is good, but I will bring up briefly here what I said in the Puzzle Vacation game that was released around Christmas: the trays are an annoyance because you can't fetch the pieces behind them when they're open and they take up quite a bit of space.

I also now have an additional request: if the developers could add a function to hide the tray tabs, that would be great because sometimes puzzle pieces end up behind them. The only way to retrieve the pieces is to shuffle, but if you shuffle, you will lose any organization you might have to your pieces.

Despite this, I think this is one of the better puzzle games I have tried and am considering putting this in my collection, even though I probably have enough jigsaw puzzles to last the rest of my life by now. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

4 / 5

5 of 5 found this review helpful

Love all the types of puzzle pieces

PostedJanuary 11, 2023

heavenlypoodles

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Favorite Genre(s):Card & Board, Hidden Object, Mahjong, Match 3, Puzzle, Time Management

Fun Factor

5 / 5

It's not the pictures that I love, it's the,
Truly amazing number of styles of puzzle pieces.
You can choose from animals, suns to regular, there are warped pieces, just so much fun if you choose the
highest number of pieces.
Attention designers:
What would make this game PERFECT, is if you could
add your own photos, to puzzle with.

I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

3 / 5

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Mixed Feelings

PostedJanuary 10, 2023

HeavenBound7729

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Skill Level:Expert

Fun Factor

4 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Jigsaw and Swap modes. Coose type of puzzle, number of pieces, level of rotation and hints. Having so many piece shapes is great. It's fun to use a new one for each puzzle, keeps it interesting and more challenging. I never use rotation, just don't like it. I don't see the point of hint level. If you need a h8int, why wait? There are 9 table colors. Features remain listed along the right edge of ...Show more

Jigsaw and Swap modes. Coose type of puzzle, number of pieces, level of rotation and hints. Having so many piece shapes is great. It's fun to use a new one for each puzzle, keeps it interesting and more challenging. I never use rotation, just don't like it. I don't see the point of hint level. If you need a h8int, why wait? There are 9 table colors. Features remain listed along the right edge of screen, I love the easy access.

There's a large variety of categories but none of them were very appealing to me. I especially disliked City and Food, Animals were disappointing. All the others were just so-so, imo. I was expecting much better because is usually so colorful and interesting. It wasn't well represented here.

The features/options are very good, music periodically went silent, the graphics are sharp but many of the images are very busy, many too dark which hides detail. I haven't mentioned everything the game offers but I think it is a fine puzzle game. My shying away from it is due to the unimpressive images in too many of the categories. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

3 / 5

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Great Puzzles, Just Okay Images

PostedJanuary 10, 2023

Medbie

fromTennessee

Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Puzzle, Time Management

Current Favorite:

Puzzle Vacations: Christmas

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Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

2 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

The gameplay is the same as the two previous Puzzle Vacation games, which is great. There's a choice of jigsaw and swap with an enormous amount of piece shape options. The lack of stars is not due to gameplay, but to the images. They really were poor, and there were not many either. To keep Puzzle Vacations a five star game, as were the previous two in my opinion, there need to be more pictures to ...Show more

The gameplay is the same as the two previous Puzzle Vacation games, which is great. There's a choice of jigsaw and swap with an enormous amount of piece shape options. The lack of stars is not due to gameplay, but to the images. They really were poor, and there were not many either. To keep Puzzle Vacations a five star game, as were the previous two in my opinion, there need to be more pictures to play and they need to be high quality. These were disappointing. I still recommend it for gameplay, but with the understanding that the images are poor. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

3 / 5

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If you've seen one....

PostedJanuary 10, 2023

chrishall0308

fromOklahoma City, OK

Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle

Current Favorite:

Camelot 2: The Holy Grail Collector's Edition

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Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

2 / 5

...you've seen them all. This game is exactly like the other puzzle vacation games. With worse pictures. I liked the Christmas one better.

I don't recommend this game.

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