There was hope for the Christmas holiday. Finally, I thought I had time for a recent blockbuster that I haven’t played yet.
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Then I mentioned in my review that I like Picross Games. This can dissolve weekends for hours like sugar in water. “I don’t know if it should recommend you a proverb and mega mosaic from Mark Fufench’s game, or whether it should clearly challenge you and warn you not to let it flow forever,” replied the commenter Seeker.
You know where this is heading. Friends, I played the proverb for 36 hours during Christmas.
Proverb presents the victim with a truly vast square grid. On top of that, you can zoom in and out like the Commander-in-Chief of a puzzle game. Some squares have numbers inside, which tell you how many squares you need to color from the surrounding area. Do you see number 9? Click the left mouse button and touch the 8 with that square and touch the perfect little 3×3 block. Does the number 0 appear? Click the right mouse button to distinguish between 3×3 areas of negative space instead.
The grid is split into small segments, and once completed, some of the photos behind it will be revealed. The photograph is a pixel art recreation of Bruegel, an elder’s 1559 oil painting “The Dutch Proverb,” depicting a lively scene of humans and animals, each engaged in an illustration of the Dutch idiom.
It’s fun and playful details rich in fun pictures as people grab each other’s noses, wipe the doors, and tie the devil to the pillows. Some idioms are still in use today, as if they were slapping their heads against a brick wall. Others aren’t very familiar. For example, two butt sights hanging from a hole in the wall (meaning “both through the same hole”, “they are inseparable comrades”, Wikipedia informs me). The rendering of these bums as pixel art maintains much of their appeal.
This process of revealing images is like the intersection of Picross and Minesweeper. Scan safely uncovered areas (9S, 0S, 6 for boundaries, 5 for corners, etc.) and once scaffolding is found, scan for one solution suggesting the next solution. It may be difficult to visualize when you explain it, but if you fill out a block of 9 and the corners of that block contains number 4, you will see that the remaining five blocks surrounding that 4 are negative spaces and can be marked immediately.
This is, for me, a deadly chain of dopamine hits. Picross puzzles are not difficult, and solving them at any scale would be a second nature if you know the logic you need, but marking each block in these patterns correctly makes me happy every time, such as slotting the Tetris blocks in the correct place. Once you start, it’s difficult to stop. Because there is always another solution visible and another segment of the whole is almost complete. I’ll do one more, then one more, and one more.
My eyes were glazed in the end, and there were few conscious thoughts involved in playing proverbs. That interface projects a bit of 3×3 highlights around the mouse pointer. It’s especially useful near the boundaries between segments, but after a few hours it wasn’t needed anymore. The projection existed in my mind’s eyes, and I saw a square everywhere.
I was drifted deep into a state of paralyzed flow, but the conscious thought that remained was that I was wasting my time, my holidays, my life. Video games are not productive in the strict sense, but when they are stripped of decisions, stories and challenges, they can feel particularly vain. If that’s what I want, I really believe it’s okay to do nothing worthwhile in my spare time – but is that what I want?
I had a strange affection for the particular combination of numbers and squares. Is the 6 in the middle of the 3×1 negative space adjacent to the 3×1 positive space? It’s heaven, friends. What’s the 5 in the corner of the 4×4 negative space? joy. Three in the corner? It’s losing my religion and is in the spotlight.
I have realised a fantasy way to justify time. I was able to be deeply and intentionally captivated by the painting “The Dutch Proverbs.” I read the Biography of Peter Bruegel and hang it on the walls of my flats and was able to impress people when they brought knowledge of early modern artwork. “Yeah, I actually first came across it in a video game,” I say. I’ve done it Write a review of the gripyajoystick ShotgunI wasn’t just a review – the kind of concept review I’ve never done in years exaggerates my slow confusion for comic effects (but it would ultimately eliminate, rather than explain my real experience, so, not).
When I reached 25% completion, a character from Luteplay appeared in a static room where the painting was hung in the game when fully zoomed out. I took a screenshot of him and sent it to Alice B (RPS of Peace). ‘Look! The mystery spreads! What could happen with 75% completion? Play Pro Words as well and verify your time here. (There’s no mystery, but Alice began to play it. Two fools under one hood as the Dutch proverb progresses. Success.)
At one point during the playthrough, YouTube video essayist Big Joel released a six-hour video watching original Disney Channel movies ever made. I thought it was perfect! Pro Word has a medieval muzak, but I switched it in favor of a video essay that re-watched it on the second screen, but now it was a very long new one to keep me and the company.
When I went to sleep that night, I dreamed of completing an infinite grid of squares and numbers. My progress was accompanied by an extraordinary rhythm of the big Joel narration. I didn’t like this dream, I didn’t like it at all. When I woke up, the narration stopped, but the background process that was performing the brain versatile words was not. It was there when I closed my eyes, as if my brain was dismantling.
It’s been over a month since I finished Pro’s, but now it’s getting better. Would someone recommend playing it? I don’t know! Depending on your perspective, 35 hours of smooth, encouraging entertainment and makeup work is £7.49. This is an anti-social jigsaw, a craft project that is an act of elimination rather than an act of creation, and I will skip until Monday morning. I’m not sure if I should recommend you Pro-word or warn you to explicitly pilot and not let you flow forever.
Maybe try the demo first?
Copying this game was achieved for free using a press account for review purposes.