SUDOKU review

After sitting through about 10 prompt screens you finally get somewhere. Well...When i say somewhere, i mean a title screen with the single most annoying music i've ever heard, but let's not nit pick!

And then you get...Yet another prompt. This time asking you for your name (or another rude word), whilst still playing that damn horrible music - have the mute button handy! Finally, you are ready to play SoDoKu! You have a couple of options on this game - there's a simple "new game", or there's "Newspaper", which is somehow different. There's also a lovely Statistics page which is useful for finding out stuff such as how many grids you have started and actually completed, aswell as the total time you have plaued, and total points.

Selecting new game, and then choosing a difficulty (Easy, Normal, Hard, Very hard, or insane, the latter two being locked out until you have progressed), you get to play SoDoKu. After this, i can't say whether it is any good or not, because of the fact that i am totally crap at it. Controls are nice and simple: Simply navigate with the D-Pad and select the square you want with X - then select which number you want to be in there. Easy. You can undo your last move with circle, and get a hint with triangle. Asking for a hint will tell you one of the numbers. If you totally suck as much as i do, you can keep asking for hints until the grid fills itself, which seems a teeny bit pointless. Nevermind though.

Newspaper mode then. This bit looks pretty cool actually. Upon selecting this mode, you can either choose "Enter grid and Play", whereby you simply "enter a grid from your favourite newspaper or magazine." Sorry but that makes absolutely no sense. Why would i want to do that? Just do it on the piece of paper in the magazine...But yeah, if you are that way inclined you can copy the puzzle in your newspaper and do it on this game instead. The other option under the Newspaper part, is "Puzzle Solver". In this one, you "enter a grid from your favourite newspaper or magazine and let the game solve it for you!" Now that sounds helpful, if you are stuck on a magazine SoDoKu! Although it kind of defeats the object of the game, surely...

Anyway, it's hard for me to either recommend or not recommend this, seeing as i know nothing about SoDoKu and couldn't complete one of the puzzles if my life depended on it. However, if you are the sort of person who loves SoDoKu then i would definitely tell you to consider a purchae of this. If you're into this sort of thing then i have no doubt that you will get a good deal of play out of this version! Except...keep it on mute for the sake of your sanity. <

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