The picross expert Jupiter has announced a new game coming to the Japanese eShop next week. It's another picross title based on the novel/anime series, Overlord.
Picross Lord of the Nazarick livens up the standard picross experience we've grown accustomed to by featuring characters and a story based on the Overlord series. There'll be 519 puzzles to solve including regular, mega, clip and colour picross. You'll also be able to interact with 10 characters and each picross puzzle is appropriately-themed.
Much like previous Jupiter releases, you can view your puzzles in a gallery when you've solved them. Picross Lord of the Nazarick arrives on 25th July for 1,080 yen and a demo will be made available on 18th July. It's unknown if this particular entry in Jupiter's picross series will be localised for Switch.
Have you played any of the previous picross games released by Jupiter? Would this one be of interest to you? Leave a comment down below.
[source nintendoeverything.com, via famitsu.com]
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Overlord is an awesome anime! But Picross does not interest me.
The devs really should re-invent Picross, the game remains the same for decades.
For example: Solving an entire row or column gives you a power up of some sort that battles the opponent in an RPG setting.
The game can be made to be more exciting, similar to Puzzle Quest using simple Match-3 mechanics.
I never knew I wanted this, please localize it. Everything overlord is a buy for me.
I would buy this for sure. I love picross 3D and I recently downloaded the Konami Picross on my smart phone. This one looks to have a story too.
So we finally get an Overlord game.....and its picross.......
I still haven't even finished the first Picross S. Really wish they'd add touch screen controls as an option.
@BenAV yes exactly, touch screen controls are a must!
@Heavyarms55 haha I am the exact opposite... for me Picross is awesome but Overlord does not interest me, lol.
Will use my JP e-shop account to pick this up for sure though... more Picross is always welcome on my switch
....WHY DON'T THESE GAMES WANT TO ALLOW CUSTOM PUZZLES?!?!?! >.<
@Joeynator3000 Peter Parker knows. Power & responsibility. They don’t want people creating inappropriate images (or try to police all the creations).
Love Picross, but they are more of a 3DS game for me
honestly thought I was looking at Kel'thuzad from wow, clicked and was disappointed...
The control input offered in Picross Jupiter games on Switch are far superior from touch controls. This is not a matter of taste. People here suggesting otherwise have clearly never purchased and played any of the 4 games released on Switch so far.
I agree with others here, 3ds is the best way to play picross. I have picross S on my wish list, but right now I am liking the Piczle game: similar but different.
@Cosats I did buy the picross previous to S on switch, and I do think they did a good job on the controls, but I still think 3ds is superior, but that is my opinion.
I think my first picross game was the Zelda one you could get as a My Nintendo reward. Played it with touch controls for a bit, but quickly switched to d-pad and buttons.
It's a matter of taste of course but I think button controls are better by a long shot. With capacitive touch I find it almost unplayable after trying a picross game on my phone.
@JamesJose7 Don't worry. Picross always came to west. The base of fans is high enough.
@FlashBoomerang yeah I have Picross S2 and just realized that Jupiter is the same developer for that one. Crossing my fingers.
I want this badly
According to the eshop listing in my country Norway its coming out next week on the 25
I have absolutely no idea what Overlord is, but I'll pick this up as I'm a bit of a Picross fanatic!
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