Picture Cross Color Hack 2.2 + Redeem Codes

This game, and its predecessor Picture Cross, are my all-time favorite phone games. I’ve tried nearly all nonogram/picross apps out there, but nothing compares to these two. This developer hit on something that I haven’t found anywhere else, and I actually spend money with no regrets if I run out, so I don’t have to wait and slowly save up.
I’m a daily player, and have been for years. The only complaint I’ve ever had is that for players like myself, you’ll always finish puzzle boards then have to wait weeks—sometimes a few months, before new puzzles are released. If I didn’t love these games so much, I’d definitely lose interest and move on.

I just finished playing a “super-hard” puzzle in “Paris Pack - Color!” in the original Picture Cross. It was a fully enjoyable experience. I have been playing Picture Cross for a number of years and can truly say it is one of my favorite games. When you added the color packs to the original game, I couldn’t wait for more. Needless to say, I was excited when you added Picture Cross Color. Alas! Although I do play it, I find it a less than satisfying experience. A couple of times I have almost deleted it. Two games with the same rules and same strategy; what is the problem? The problem is with the execution of the game. In the original game’s color packs the player picks the space and then fills it with a color or an x. One also has the use of the pin tool in order to fill multiple spaces or even rows. I have never accidentally erased previous work and the play runs smoothly. In Picture Cross Color, I frequently accidentally erase previously filled spaces. Also I am frustrated because the last move may have finished several adjacent rows but I can’t finish adding the x’s all at once. Please consider changing the play in Picture Cross Color to the same technique as the color packs in the original game. I can guarantee that it will become one of my favorite games.

Definitely a fun game. Waited a while to post a review so I could be accurate :). So, right off the bat, Make a purchase. Doesn’t mater how small, do it. ANY purchase removes the unsolicited ads (you can still watch them for extra or free tokens or coins). Other then that, it is definitely a game you don’t have to pay for to play at all. (But save the headache, definitely was worth the couple bucks.). Now, i wish the tokens and coins given as rewards were more even instead of way more coins then tokens…. But still being able to turn around and use the coins to replay levels for tokens is working just fine. The daily token rewards are great especially when you log in daily even if just to snag your daily rewards. I liked that they seem to have events pretty frequently giving you more levels to complete, which brings me to my second complaint…. I had to wait several weeks for new levels to unlock, (but when they came out with more, they opened two new stages of levels so that was cool), but i was able to rack up all those daily tokens during then. Definitely worth the download though for sure. It’s never really given me any issues or had any glitches.

The pixel art style of the game and interface is very nice. The puzzle interface is not feature rich, but decently functional. When you’ve filled all blocks in a row or column, you can tap on the list of that column or row to fill in Xs. It would be nice to be able to mark that only specific colors won’t go in that square. The game uses key gems to unlock puzzles, but while it is ad supported, if you are low on them it will give you more to unlock the next puzzle, rather than locking you out like other apps might. UPDATE: this only happened for me in the first chapter grouping. After that you can get 1 gem for waiting 3 minutes, or wait for the next daily reward. I have an iPhone 7. The app can take a long time to load. Maybe 30 seconds? I haven’t timed it. I have also had multi-second freezes while in a puzzle. It’s an older device, but games like Sky still work pretty well on low settings. There is plenty of optimization to do for a pixel art UI. Also, if it offers you key gems for completing a puzzle, or more if you watch an ad, but then it can’t find an ad to serve you, it will lock up and you will need to restart the app.

I actually really love the game and play it all the time. However there is a new bug that makes it almost unplayable. During game play I will touch nothing on the screen and then it will think I have tapped on the add and all of a sudden I’m in Safari. It almost seems like it pops into Safari whenever the add changes toma new add.

I also hate how the tokens work. I have actuaally amassed hundreds of them by only playing one game a day, gathering the daily tokens, and watching the add for the daily bonus tokens. Now if I want to binge play a bunch of games I can. But it really annoys me to pay 40 tokens for a Super Easy level that takes 30 seconds to complete. They should just all cost the same number of tokens. And there is zero point to the Coins. I have over 50,000 of them and will never use any of them. I wish I could buy Tokens with them.

I would also love it if you added levels bigger than 15x15 on the iPad version. There is plenty of space and there needs to be more of a challenge. I beat every level without blacking out any of the non-numbered spaces and try to do it in color order to add some extra challenge. More boxes would also allow better pictures since some of the pictures are pretty unresembling of what they are supposed to be.

The puzzles are fun. I really do like the game. I would gladly make an in game purchase to remove the intrusive ads, if it wasn’t for one big problem… The free token bank is capped at 10, which means you cannot have more than 10 tokens at once unless you buy more or get some by replaying old levels. The problem here is that most new levels cost more than 10 tokens to play. So, you must either pay or constantly replay old levels in order to progress. This is insane and saps all fun out of the game, at least to me. Update: I am reducing my rating from 2 to 1 because of the developer response. First, it took 2 months for them to reply. Second, the reply ignored my original review. I already mentioned how the game lets you earn tokens. I stand by my review that it’s insane. Who wants to replay old levels over and over and over (yes, many many replays are required) in order to unlock new ones? Not me. And the daily rewards only give you enough tokens for a single level, sometimes two if you watch an ad. One star.

I would beg the developers to not use different hues of the same color as the only color in the puzzle. If your eyesight isn’t perfect, it’s extremely difficult to distinguish between them.
Please use different colors!
My other major complaint is with the underlying pictures. The puzzles are great, although recent packets contain a few almost impossible to solve, but the pictures are terrible. “In a garden” makes you think of vegetables and flowers but what you get is green grass and a lawn mower. There’s no motivation to keep on solving when you reveal pipes, trucks, sky and dull mountains. Very different from the monochrome version where theres always something interesting underneath the puzzle. And the animation adds nothing to the puzzle. It may be fun for the developers but it’s just plain irritating to the solver.

The game is nice, one of the better color nonogram apps I’ve played, but the tokens are an issue. Autogenerate 10 tokens only to have the next puzzle cost 15, even with a discount? I’m not watching 5 ads, and I’m not spending money. You either wait for the daily reward to give you more tokens, or you suffer 5 ads. Then when you finish a puzzle, you usually get coins, not tokens. I, personally, don’t really use hints, I like to figure it out myself even if it takes forever. I’m never gonna use these coins if their only use is for hints. Why can’t I buy tokens with coins? Why don’t I autogenerate, say, 20 tokens? If I can only ever generate 10, why not keep the costs of the puzzles lower than 10? I just don’t get it. I want to do multiple puzzles a day, but I’m forced to do one, maybe two if they happen to be cheap.

It gets extremely easy, even the most difficult levels, after some time. I’ve gotten to the point where I can complete every level without using any “X” to mark off spaces. If they expanded to puzzles larger than 15x15 I’d give a 5star. I don’t see why, after 100’s of puzzles, why the max grid size is 15x15. Not trying to throw shade but if you did the puzzles yourself you’d understand that after doing 100’s of these, players are going to want more of a challenge now that they’ve graduated from the first couple 100 puzzles and understand algorithms. Moved onto a different game that has more challenge to it but once you add more challenge I’d love to play this again considering it’s one of the most polished of its genre.

Look, the gameplay is great, probably the best nonogram game I’ve played. The main problem (and boy is it a huge problem) comes from the fact that you need tokens to play levels. That in itself isn’t an issue, except that you can only auto generate tokens up to 10. After the first pack, almost every puzzle costs more than 10 tokens (even with the discount for the lock being flashy). This means to play more levels, you either have to watch ads for the tokens or wait until your daily reward, which gives you somewhere around 5 tokens, increasing by around 5 each day. There’s also spending real money on tokens, but I’m not doing that. The puzzles in pack two were already costing around 15 tokens each to play, so I can’t even imagine the costs of the higher packs. Wish the design wasn’t overall so money hungry, otherwise a fairly good game.