Picross Beach Paradise > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

Overall rating

5 / 5

8 of 8 found this review helpful

Perfect for a logic game lover!

PostedJune 26, 2019

windsonged

Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Strategy, Time Management, Word

Fun Factor

4 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Storyline

3 / 5

This game requires much more mental effort than most griddlers coming out these days. I can finish a whole Fantasy Mosaics in advanced mode in about a quarter of the time this game takes. Even with self-imposed challenge rules.

However, if you want pictures, a story, colors, and music stop now!

Do not get this game! It is purely a logic puzzle. Nothing more.

If the mere mental ...Show more

This game requires much more mental effort than most griddlers coming out these days. I can finish a whole Fantasy Mosaics in advanced mode in about a quarter of the time this game takes. Even with self-imposed challenge rules.

However, if you want pictures, a story, colors, and music stop now!

Do not get this game! It is purely a logic puzzle. Nothing more.

If the mere mental challenge of solving a puzzle is not sufficient reward for you, you will not like this game. Do not upset yourself trying it out. I will side with dislikes over the misleading description. There's no adventure or anything like that to be had. It's like sudoku, where the end result is a grid of meaningless numbers. The end result is a grid in which some spots have a dully colored tile. That's it. If you like that, the fun factor is 100%. If you don't, you will hate it.

I am one of those people that likes this sort of thing.

I had not realized how lazy the versions where you switch between colors and that block out tiles for you had made me until I played one of these again. It took some work to get my brain to make up for how much easier color and auto-count versions of griddlers are (even when you select advanced and it waits until you have gotten through the whole row before it crosses off the numbers and blocks unused tiles, it is still easier than this game).

There is, in fact, only one puzzle I had to guess for. There are a handful that are incredibly hard because they require mentally trying a tile and seeing how that would affect the whole board, while mentally keeping track of what tiles you have blocked and what you have used, to determine if that tile is right or not. (That's not a guess, btw, that's brain power.) But while I was once very good at this and could get through these puzzles much more quickly, it had become much harder to do without the various ways that other games have made these puzzles easier to do. (And I won't deny that on some days, having the computer block tiles for you, is a nice break ;)

Want to challenge yourself even more? Try getting through the whole game mentally remembering the blocked squares and not actually blocking them. Show less

I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

4 / 5

11 of 13 found this review helpful

Great Logic Game!

PostedJune 10, 2018

tachon

Fun Factor

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

No paint by numbers, no pretty pictures, just a good, basic logic game. Please Big Fish, don't discontinue this type of picross...they're wonderful!

I recommend this game!

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Overall rating

3 / 5

10 of 13 found this review helpful

Not visually good

PostedJune 4, 2018

coqa

fromIngham, Lincs

Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Brain Teaser, Hidden Object, Puzzle

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

2 / 5

Level of Challenge

3 / 5

Nothing new from other like games. A big negative is the 'crossed out' squares, you can hardly see them

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Overall rating

1 / 5

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I WOULDN'T BUY THIS GUESSER GRIDDLER IN A MILLION YEARS

PostedJune 4, 2018

pennmom36

fromOh look, a new title.

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Skill Level:Expert

Current Favorite:

Rainbow Mosaics: Treasure Trip 2

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Fun Factor

1 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

1 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

I just don't get it. This developer keeps slapping a different title on the same handful of games and spits them out at a break-neck speed. Nothing has changed, and nothing ever will, it has the same music, the same options, the same features as the last picross they offered, and the one before that and the one before that, in fact, every game they have ever offered in every genre category has ...Show more

I just don't get it. This developer keeps slapping a different title on the same handful of games and spits them out at a break-neck speed. Nothing has changed, and nothing ever will, it has the same music, the same options, the same features as the last picross they offered, and the one before that and the one before that, in fact, every game they have ever offered in every genre category has absolutely no changes whatsoever, and it's downright insulting. To me, it says that they don't care, why should they? If you mass produce something, someone's bound to buy it, so why work at improvement?

If you have played any game by this dev, you'll immediately recognize the music, but why change a good thing? (I was being sarcastic btw) To make matters worse, the music becomes extremely loud when you finish the puzzle and the score pops up. You can earn 3 Stars if you don't make a mistake, and you can replay any level. Good luck with that, because after about 10 levels or so the logic part of these logic-based puzzles gets thrown out the window, leaving you with a good old-fashioned Guesser Griddler!

Do you want to have the numbers crossed off one by one, or only when the entire row or column has been completed? Too bad, you don't get that option here. Want to use the right mouse button to cross off cells with an X? Well, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't! Want to tell the difference between the number 1 and the # 7, not an option! Do you want to know what image you just completed? Good luck, I have no idea what any of the grids I completed actually were, there will be no title or descriptions, never have been, never will. Would you like to choose between colors? You guessed it, what you see is what you get, Blue.

What you will get, however, are the same familiar features (we already went over the music feature) 7 Locations with 20 puzzles in each location. You also get the exciting feature of brushing up on your picross skills through 7 Beginner levels and 1 Expert level, because 2 training levels for experts would just be ridiculous. You will earn coins when you "guess" correctly on some of the filled in cells. (hints are earned as well) These coins can be used to purchase a weeks vacation in beautiful...no wait, that's not correct. You can purchase the same 3 items in the Shop that are offered in all the Picross games by this dev. Two Starting Hints, the right to make 3 mistakes and refill the hints but only on that current level.

I can hardly contain my excitement, think I'll go clean out a closet, that sounds way more interesting than this game. Show less

I don't recommend this game.

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Overall rating

1 / 5

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PICROSS BEACH PARADISE

PostedJune 4, 2018

MrsBen

fromJoplin, MO USA

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Fun Factor

2 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

2 / 5

Level of Challenge

3 / 5

I'm sorry, but when I have painstaking worked through a "Picross" puzzle, which I enjoy doing, but end up with a picture? I can't identify and only one color in the design, I feel cheated....I didn't get my reward for solving the puzzle!!! :( I know someone put their heart into creating this puzzle, but you need the result to be an identifiable picture to make you feel you've accomplished ...Show more

I'm sorry, but when I have painstaking worked through a "Picross" puzzle, which I enjoy doing, but end up with a picture? I can't identify and only one color in the design, I feel cheated....I didn't get my reward for solving the puzzle!!! :( I know someone put their heart into creating this puzzle, but you need the result to be an identifiable picture to make you feel you've accomplished something. Show less

I don't recommend this game.

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Overall rating

1 / 5

10 of 11 found this review helpful

A Big Yawn

PostedJune 5, 2018

Annielb

fromLondon, England

Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Card & Board, Match 3, Strategy, Time Management

Current Favorite:

Viking Brothers 4

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Fun Factor

1 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

1 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

Storyline

1 / 5

This game is so boring I only made it to 5 boards before deleting it. Too much guessing required, no identifiable picture and one colour. Why waste money on this when you can buy Rainbow Mosaics??

I don't recommend this game.

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Overall rating

1 / 5

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Epic fail all the way around

PostedJune 6, 2019

CyndiLouWho2

fromBuffalo NY

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Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Brain Teaser, Puzzle, Strategy

Fun Factor

1 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

1 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

All I can say is 'kudos' to this developer's marketing team for their ability to give this loser of a game such an upbeat, positive spin.

Contrary to it's glowing description, this game is not exciting, does not have beautiful graphics and the puzzles cannot be logically solved -- it's just one big Guess Fest. And if you actually want to stick around to solve a few of these, you'll have no ...Show more

All I can say is 'kudos' to this developer's marketing team for their ability to give this loser of a game such an upbeat, positive spin.

Contrary to it's glowing description, this game is not exciting, does not have beautiful graphics and the puzzles cannot be logically solved -- it's just one big Guess Fest. And if you actually want to stick around to solve a few of these, you'll have no idea what the "picture" is and they never do tell you.

Believe the other reviewers who rated Beach Paradise on the low side, and don't even bother to install it. Show less

I don't recommend this game.

+5points

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