Mega Mosaic

At 7.9 hours I just hit 10% complete. This is a big operation. I was never great at Minesweeper and had to relearn it. This also isn't *that* much like Minesweeper, even though the math is the same; because there's no danger, and you're almost always working with both large and small numbers. Small white numbers and large blue numbers are essentially the same problem in reverse: Sometimes you're glad to see an 8 because you only need to rule out one square, and so on. The music is the pleasant, mildly eerie downtempo stuff in the trailer. I'm not sure how much of it there is, but I can tell it's repeating pretty often though not often enough to annoy me. At some point I may shut it off and play the Kind Words soundtrack instead, just for variety's sake. As you clear the board of easy solutions, discover all the little 0 and 9 islands, the 1s 2s and 3s situated along the borders, and start to build little knots of solvedness along usually the border intersections, it becomes a sort of adventure trying to join them to each other, and the board starts to feel like a map. Of space, of some fantasy world, of your brain maybe. Or not at all depending on if you can get sucked in, but f…

I can't be certain how much the game has changed from its earlier state when folks were asking for some QOL features, but I do know that Mega Mosaic walked so that Proverbs could fly. I bought this game after enjoying Proverbs as much as I did, and this is a definite recommend, though I don't think enjoying proverbs will necessarily indicate enjoyment here. Lack of a coherent theme + logically connected sections (that is, the borders of the sections don't divide the squares from each other) means this one sort of melts into the background more easily. If you obsessively played Proverbs, this is more of that good fix. If, however, you played proverbs like a normal person, I don't know that this earlier entry into the genre will be nearly as enjoyable. Since I am insane, this was pretty dang enjoyable. But part of what I did to make it fun was use a little more deductive reasoning than I might have done otherwise. If I were only looking to follow the logic of 'fill in the remainder of the 3x3' or 'block off the remainder of the 3x3' (the first-order problem solving logic someone in the community hub appeared to have determined is all that is required to solve this game) I would have …

It's not awful, but it's such a huge step down from Proverbs that I couldn't enjoy it. This is similar, except it's one giant section without hard borders. There isn't really a theme, or even a consistent art style between sections. Having all of the sections interconnect is very awkward, and it's hard to tell where the edges are. There's also no undo button (big issue for misclicking). There's also no way to mark where you're working or go back to the last section you were on, so if you scroll by accident you will lose your place and just have to find a new place to work. The hint button is necessary because the game board is so big, but it also will just move you somewhere else on the map and you can't get back to an area. I think I'll finish it because I'm completionist-y but especially after the first few sections it ended up being frustrating rather than satisfying.

I urge you to look at the other Mosaic games by the same developer. Immediately, they get leagues better. This game is for those who own the back catalogue and are fiending for another. It is one gigantic, unending puzzle, rather than several smaller ones tiled together, and the fatigue hits hard! Any edge techniques you learn from the future games are lost here!

I am finally free game is very addicting

The game is a fun activity to do while watching youtube videos.