Pixel Puzzles: Japan

So why do I not recommend this game yet still love the game???? Well the answer is quite puzzling... Let me begin by saying that if you enjoy a good jigsaw puzzle you will find great enjoyment within this game. There is a definite feel of working a jigsaw puzzle here and it's quite relaxing and enjoyable. The pictures are decent and give some good challenge in matching up the pieces and once you get to the larger piece puzzles it really feels like your working a real jigsaw puzzle on a table top. Another interesting slant on this game is that in many puzzles the pieces are cut in ways you could never cut a real life puzzle. This is good in the sense that it opens up new challenges with matching up pieces and actually adds to the puzzle experience in ways that only a virtual puzzle could. It's bad in a way too though because some of these cut styles up the difficulty in matching pieces by cut to sky high levels that make it nearly impossible to do, leaving you to rely on color matchi...

Fairly decent Jigsaw game but for the love of all that is good and just in this world give the option to turn of the sound of that water bamboo tippy thing. ITS SO ANNOYING. For an otherwise quite relaxing game that sound makes me wince every 10 seconds . **Update** The above is no longer an issue! Very impressed that the developers actually listened to my wee moan. A rare thing indeed in todays gaming industry. I heartily recommend this game , very relaxing and a good way to unwind. Many thanks indeed Decayinglogic! I'll be sure to follow your future projects.

Didn't like this game. The puzzle pieces don't connect to eachother like in the ancient jigsaw puzzle games that worked on Windows95. Instead, a piece get stuck into place if you put them on the correct spot. Kinda kills the experience, it's not really jigsaw puzzling this way. Hell, even jigsaw puzzle games in windows 3.11 and DOS were able to get that part right.

I like this game but its so limited with only like 12 puzzles. It needs more puzzles or a way to use your pictures to create your own puzzles. I have had no issues with this at all. Great work more scope for this to be improved to make it even better for me. Needs DLC'S AND A PUZZLE CREATURE I think this would make it future alot better for people to buy it.

Pixel Puzzles Japan is a puzzle game where you have to complete 21 different puzzles. The game starts easy with a low number of pieces and gradually becomes more difficult with more pieces for each new puzzle. Puzzling as such is fun and well done. However, what's extremely annoying is the fact that the puzzles pieces are flowing in water and are constantly moving. Since sometimes five pieces are flowing over each other at the same position, it's almost impossible to grab the piece you need. You see it, you want it, you grab it but you end up with a different piece. This happens all the time and it sucks. Unfortunately the game does not have an option to keep the pieces from moving. It would not be possible to implement this anyway, because the most difficult puzzles have so many pieces that the developers would not be able to display all of them at the same time on the screen because the space is insufficient. I assume that's why they decided to make the pieces flow in water. Pros...

Not a bad game. Only annoying part is the sound for the falling water feture... a bit too loud and abrupt for me... apart from that, it is a nice relaxing game.

Most beautiful relaxing puzzle game I have found. It has alot going for it. Pluses-Nice music. Floating puzzle pieces that you have to catch. Nice pictures of Japan that you have to build. Cons-No save. You cannot save your puzzle so you have to build it all at once. It can take a really long time. Such an easy feature that is missing it seems.

After fully completing the game (9 hours for one playthrough), I'm finally reviewing it, and I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys jigsaw puzzles. I LOVE jigsaws, but find myself unable to partake in many because I have so few flat surfaces around my home, and I also have quite a few cats that are always determined to chew and eat the pieces. Pixel Puzzles allows the player to piece together jigsaws without the hassle. There are a few pros and cons to the game when compared to regular jigsaws that I thought I'd point out. For one, the puzzles are extraordinarily easy for those of us who are used to piecing together 500 or 1000 piece + jigsaw puzzles. Why? The top tier puzzle is, I believe, only 300 pieces, for one thing. Another thing is that the pieces are always rightside up; that is, you never have to turn pieces around clockwise or counter-clockwise to try different sides in different places. When you place a piece in its respective spot, it "clicks" into place, which can be...

If you like jigsaw puzzles this is a good game to try. The music is soothing and the puzzles make lovely pictures. There are 26 achievements that are fun to get. It took me almost 20 hours to get them all. There are three drawbacks. First there is no save feature. So you have to complete each puzzle before leaving the game or start over. Some of the harder puzzles took me a couple hours or so to complete so this was quite annoying. Second the piece size decreases since they cannot increase the puzzle size. If you have a small computer screen or poor eyesight this may make things difficult. Third a few of the puzzles make it hard to pick up the piece you want you have to grab other pieces and move them away from the piece you want in order to grab it. Even with these drawbacks it is an enjoyable experience and I am glad to have purchased the game. However waiting for a sale might be a good idea.

This is one of the best of the Pixel Puzzle series. Being the first one I acquired, the music is nice, the koi pond an interesting concept, and the art of the puzzles great. While the puzzles do become increasingly more difficult as you progress in the tiers, it is still a beautiful game. Buying this game automatically unlocks the puzzles from it in the Ultimate edition. Also, buying any of the volumes gives you the Ultimate game automatically (that's how I ended up with it). Note: If the water drip thing is annoying you, just grab a fish from the pond and stick it in the spigot. Seriously... that actually counts as two achievements, one for grabbing a fish, and the second for sticking it in the pipe...