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Game Information
- Platform: Nintendo DS
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- Over 2000 various styles of Sudoku puzzles
- 1000 picture puzzles and 1000 number puzzles
- Start off simple and work your way up to mosre complicated brain teasers
- Use the Touch Screen feature to write numbers or paint colours
- Compete against your friends
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Manufacturer's Description
With over 2000 different puzzles with increasing levels of difficulty, are you the one the solve them all. As well as the standard number tests, Essential Sudoku also includes variations on the addicitve craze using pictures and colours to make the challenge even more exciting. Great fun whatever your age or ability.
Product Description
With over 2000 different puzzles with increasing levels of difficulty, are you the one the solve them all. As well as the standard number tests, Essential Sudoku also includes variations on the addicitve craze using pictures and colours to make the challenge even more exciting. Great fun whatever your age or ability.
- Over 2000 various styles of Sudoku puzzles
- 1000 picture puzzles and 1000 number puzzles
- Start off simple and work your way up to mosre complicated brain teasers
- Use the Touch Screen feature to write numbers or paint colours
- Compete against your friends
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I am a great fan of sudoku and picross type puzzles, so I looked forward to receiving this with anticipation. I was sadly disappointed. As mentioned in other reviews (I wish I'd read them first) the picture puzzle part of the game is nearly impossible to play. The display is tiny and it is impossible to shade individual squares.
The sudoku part of the game is not at all enjoyable either. There are no electronic features, such as highlighted individual numbers, which are found in other sudoku games, and no matter how clearly I write, the software has trouble recognising my writing (a problem I have not had with other software, such as Brain Training). Also, the sudoku puzzles themselves are ridiculously easy and I have yet to find an option for making them harder. I got bored in no time, and the only real challenge was getting the software to recognise my writing!
I found this game a waste of money, and I have returned it for a refund (which is something I rarely do, so that's how bad it is). If you want to play Sudoku on DS, either go for Dr Kawashima's Brain Training or Sudoku Master, which is excellent. For the picture type puzzle, Picross is also excellent and enjoyable.
The sudoku part of the game is not at all enjoyable either. There are no electronic features, such as highlighted individual numbers, which are found in other sudoku games, and no matter how clearly I write, the software has trouble recognising my writing (a problem I have not had with other software, such as Brain Training). Also, the sudoku puzzles themselves are ridiculously easy and I have yet to find an option for making them harder. I got bored in no time, and the only real challenge was getting the software to recognise my writing!
I found this game a waste of money, and I have returned it for a refund (which is something I rarely do, so that's how bad it is). If you want to play Sudoku on DS, either go for Dr Kawashima's Brain Training or Sudoku Master, which is excellent. For the picture type puzzle, Picross is also excellent and enjoyable.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
The picture puzzles (1000 of them!) are great if you've exhausted those found in Picross DS. The controls are a little dodgier (I remember having difficulty using the stylus), but if you use only the buttons for control it is much easier.
The Sudoku is another matter, as the handwriting recognition is totally broken. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to write a 5 that is not interpreted as an 8 or a 9. Big problem, and I have yet to solve one Sudoku puzzle because of it!
The Sudoku is another matter, as the handwriting recognition is totally broken. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to write a 5 that is not interpreted as an 8 or a 9. Big problem, and I have yet to solve one Sudoku puzzle because of it!
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Being a major fan of suduko, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this game. I had images of the playability of the suduko section of Brain Training.
This is nothing like it.
The bright colours and moving background make this game almost impossible to play, and difficult to concentrate on for very long. Added to this, are the badly formatted menus and bold lettering and numbers which all mean that this game uncomfortable to look at for very long.
This is nothing like it.
The bright colours and moving background make this game almost impossible to play, and difficult to concentrate on for very long. Added to this, are the badly formatted menus and bold lettering and numbers which all mean that this game uncomfortable to look at for very long.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
not so good
the game was not as good as expected and the instructions on how to use the functions for the game not very clear, for a game that is easy to do on paper this was not very good to... Read more
Published 12 months ago by whatnow
essential sudoku
A pity I had not read the reviews on this game, after playing the one on brain training, I thought a Sudoku game on its own would be far superior. Read more
Published 21 months ago by G. E. Kitchen
Big number of puzzles, small price.
This game boasts 1000 puzzles each of Sudoku and "Picross" and for a significantly lower price than similar games. The sudoku is standard and becomes harder as you progress. Read more
Published on 23 July 2007 by B. Roche
Two games for less than the price of one.
Don't be put off by the mention of picture puzzle (as I originally was), thinking it would be something more suitable for kids. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2007 by Fiona
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