I liked playing this game, but the way the clues were shown on the boxes irritated me to no end.
what are you talking about? the backgrounds? they can be changed to random
I have played Mario Picross and Picross DS. In those games, you see all of the clues, seperated for the rows and columns. In Picross 3D, you do no see them seperately, you get one number, if they even give a number for the row, column, and z-axis(?). The way they denote if there are seperate groups is with a mystic circle and or the mystic square. OOOOOOH really helpful. While most of the puzzles do have some symetry to them, a lot of them are off by a block or two. Which makes going for three stars on all puzzles a huge ordeal. Especially in the higher up courses. Then on top of that, not all of the rows, columns, or z axises cubes have clues!!! WTF??? How did the developement team miss that? It is really annoying on the puzzles that have a one block twisting pattern that has no clues on most sides of the cubes to figure out how it goes.
steps off soap box,
Basically IMO,
Seperated clues GOOD
One number for all seperate groups and surrounded by a shape is BAD.
Failure to have clues on all axises BAD.
The different backgrounds and themes, and themed unlockables GREAT