Picross Fairytale: Legend of the Mermaid

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"Picross Fairytale: Legend of the Mermaid" is a puzzle game that combines picross mechanics with a charming fairytale setting. Players must solve picross puzzles to uncover the story of a mermaid and her quest to restore her kingdom. With over 300 puzzles, this game offers a challenging and engaging experience for picross fans.

Genres & Tags

Casual

Play Modes

Single-Player

Picross Fairytale: Legend of the Mermaid screenshot

63%

Audience ScoreBased on 80 reviews

music2 positive mentions

story10 negative mentions

The game offers a large quantity of puzzles, providing a decent challenge for fans of nonograms.
The gradual increase in difficulty keeps players engaged and mentally stimulated.
The graphics and art style are enjoyable, and the music helps create a relaxing atmosphere.

The game suffers from poor interface design, including a lack of essential features like row/column highlighting and error detection.
Technical issues such as crashes and lack of autosave can lead to frustrating experiences for players.
The presence of microtransactions and a confusing control scheme detracts from the overall enjoyment of the game.

story
28 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
11%
53%
36%
The story in the game is largely viewed as unnecessary and simplistic, serving primarily as a backdrop to the puzzles rather than enhancing the gameplay experience. Many players found it uninteresting and felt that it detracted from the overall enjoyment, suggesting that the game would have been better off without a narrative component. Despite being a sequel to "Red Riding Hood Secret," the storyline about Little Red Riding Hood turning into a mermaid is considered cheesy and lacking depth.
- “This game is a story continuation of 'Red Riding Hood Secret'.”
- “After you pass the threshold to each world, you get a story update with some dialogue.”
- “The game has a story about how Little Red Riding Hood gets turned into a mermaid, and the player's job is to complete the puzzles to find some lyre pieces and voices to turn her back into a land-dweller.”
- “I only got, played, and finished it because I like mermaids, but there's a significant lack of those and the actual story - what little there is of it - is rather stupid.”
- “The story is so simple, cheesy, and stupid, that I would say the game would have been better off by purely being a puzzle game without the story.”
- “This story feels totally unnecessary and it's as if it was added there just for the game to have some sort of a story.”
monetization
16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
50%
25%
The game features optional in-app purchases, allowing players to buy hints with in-game currency that can be earned through gameplay or purchased. While some users find the microtransactions unnecessary and reminiscent of mobile market trends, the game remains enjoyable without spending money. However, concerns about data loss related to in-app purchases have been raised by some players.
- “No need to worry about in-app purchases, they are completely optional.”
- “Hints can be bought with in-game currency, which you can earn while playing (as well as daily on a timer) or obtain via in-game purchase.”
- “And regardless of whether you're iffy about the microtransactions or not, the game is enjoyable without them too!”
- “The game contains microtransactions.”
- “The game currency (including microtransactions) seems highly influenced by mobile market games.”
- “This is a nice picross (nonogram) game though it has some unnecessary features (in-game currency, microtransactions, and story) and is lacking a few options I would have liked to see.”
graphics
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
14%
65%
21%
The graphics of the game have received mixed reviews, with many users criticizing the lack of resolution options and customization settings, leading to a perception of low quality that does not meet PC gaming standards. While some players appreciate the art style, they feel that the overall graphical presentation is inadequate for a modern PC game. Overall, the graphics are deemed acceptable for the game's style, but improvements are necessary to enhance the visual experience.
- “I enjoyed the graphics and art style; however, I did not enjoy the story that much.”
- “Graphics are adequate for the style of game.”
- “There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customize the graphics settings.”
- “There's no way for gamers to try to improve the low-quality graphics.”
- “Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.”
gameplay
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
37%
38%
The gameplay of "Picross Fairytale: Legend of the Mermaid" is described as mediocre, with significant flaws that detract from the overall experience. Critics note that certain gameplay mechanics seem intentionally designed to create unnecessary difficulty, pushing players towards purchasing in-game hints. Overall, it falls short compared to other picross titles.
- “Note: I am a highly experienced picross player and normally play picross (nonogram) games with all hint mechanics turned off.”
- “Gameplay-wise, Picross Fairytale: Legend of the Mermaid is not among the best of picross games.”
- “The gameplay itself is okay, but the game has serious flaws.”
- “Gameplay-wise, Picross Fairytale: Legend of the Mermaid is not among the best of Picross games.”
- “All in all, it feels like some gameplay choices were deliberately made worse than they should be to add artificial challenge to encourage players to use the helping features obtainable with real money.”
music
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The music in the game is praised for its quality and effectiveness in enhancing concentration, creating a pleasant auditory backdrop for gameplay.
- “The music is really nice and helps you to concentrate.”
optimization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The optimization in the game is partially addressed through the booster system; however, players feel that this feature still requires further refinement to enhance performance.
- “This is somewhat implemented with the booster system, I suppose, but that could use some optimization.”
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game suffers from significant stability issues, frequently freezing and crashing, which can be particularly frustrating for players during critical moments, such as solving puzzles. Despite the appealing ideas and visuals, these technical problems detract from the overall experience.
- “The ideas and visuals are all good, but the actual game freezes and crashes quite a bit. It can be very frustrating when you're in the middle of solving a puzzle and the game crashes before anything can be saved.”

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316h Median play time

316h Average play time

316-316h Spent by most gamers

*Based on 2 analyzed playthroughs

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