Yume Puzzle Reviews

6/10

Jigsaw puzzles of images from Yume games. Decent enough.

the pros - the art is pretty good, not rank amateur like some other puddle games... the cons - sometimes hard to get the cursor to detect which piece you're trying to select can't move left side edge pieces all the way to the left edge [detection issue??] none of the puzzles are very hard you don't know what the picture looks like 'till you start the puzzle...

positives+++ +Pieces picking is accurate. If I pick a piece that is currently under other pieces by the round part, it will accurately pick this one up. +A lot of the images are actually quite pretty and well drawn! I like the anime crunchy art style. +Quite a few images to solve. +Higher levels are harder and fun to do. negatives--- -Early levels are way too quick/easy to solve for my taste. -The cursor being a puzzle piece is fun at first but quickly become not fun to use because it doesn't have a pointy edge like a regular cursor does. -It is hard to read some of the options in the "Preferences" menu because the text is directly display on the background image. It would be better for example to add a div with a grey color and opacity to it so it's easier to read the text. -Ok, I don't know why, but after quitting the game for the first time and restarting it, the preferences menu is not the same? Now it's a 100% black background instead of the image of the girl from the main menu. (Easier to read than the other but could be improved). -I don't know why when I toggle "Display" > "Window" my cursor is moved to another place. -The edges of puzzle pieces are weirdly pixelated. -I don't know why clicking "Credits" goes to the same screen as "Start" -Why bother putting achievements if they are bad? There is a lot of potencial to create good achievements for this type of game. -I don't know why there is the same menu in the selection of puzzle menu as the main menu. Why not just put a "Back to main menu" button instead? -I nearly had a heart attack when starting the first puzzle because of a high beat song playing (there is no music at all in the menus so it's quite startling). -Not the most relaxing music to solve puzzle D8. If I wanted to have some high speed music I would have played DDR instead. -Strangely, the music keeps playing in the menu after it started in the first puzzle lol. -When returning to the main menu and from a puzzle (house icon) and then clicking "Start" music, stops abruptly. (Music starts again when a puzzle is selected.) -No transition when finishing the puzzle, it just jumps right into your face :/ -No sure why the edge puzzle pieces have an uneven black line (not smooth) -When you mute and unmute the music, it restarts the music. It would be nice for it to just continue de music where it was. -I have no idea to what the option "Text Speed" is applied to. -Puzzle pieces don't snap to each other, only to the board. -When there is a piece under the spot you want to place your piece, even if your piece goes there, it won't snap. You need to move the other piece first so that the correct piece can snap to the grid. -Not sure what right click is supposed to be doing?! -You don't know the image in advanced. It can be nice, but most of the time on a more difficult puzzle, it's just annoying because pieces don't snap together so you need to blindly find their spot on the grid first. You can't, for example, snap the face together and continue from there because the pieces don't snap together. -Why does it take so long to load the more advance puzzle? Really, 27 seconds to load "Aozora Meikyuu" "Level 7" (11 x 14 (154) puzzle pieces). :/ -If you quit the game in a middle of a puzzle, it doesn't save. You will have to redo the puzzle from the start. This is quite a basic feature that is missing from this kind of game (being able to save your progress). -You can't bring a big puzzle piece to the exact spot when it's in the corner of the game. If you drop it, the auto-snap still snaps it correctly but it's just a bit weird that you can't drag them over the correct spot because of the boundaries of the game?! -If you quit from the main menu, it quits without asking if you want to quit. If you quit from the puzzle selection menu, it asks if you want to quit. No consistency here. Overall, the pictures that I have solved are nice and of good quality. Too bad the rest of the game is not very polished (bugs, weird UI, startling music, etc.) Not sure about the tag "sexual content" because there is nothing sexual in those that I solved. A bit of light ecchi but that's all. I had fun playing the most difficult puzzle, the easier are just too easy for my taste. I would like to recommend the game. It has potential, but it's really lacking in basic aspect. Since it's quite cheap I guess you could still get it, turn off the music, remember to finish a puzzle before quitting and enjoy solving the puzzles there are.