Khimera: Puzzle Island Reviews

It's picross with really good presentation, genuinely amazing music, and overall good vibes. My only negative is I wish there was more of it.. its good :)

I love my monster children and the genuinely really good picross set up. I played a lot of Mario Picross and the "you can only do like 5 mistakes then you die" bugged me. This one lets me sit down and feel it out while still giving me some vague hints. Love it!

This game was a joy to play. There was a lot of content. The music was catchy. The puzzles were fun. This might be the game I recommend to people looking to get into the genre.

I did not know of nonograms before landing up here. I had enjoyed [i] Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls, [/i] and on the strength of the goodwill that game raised in me, I bought this title. Luckily for me, I found myself enjoying this one too, even though I'm not much into puzzles. At the outset, I'll say I like every aspect of this game! But, since the point of a puzzle game is the puzzle, I'll start with the gameplay. For an absolute beginner, the initial puzzles are a cinch. The difficulty ramps up at a very manageable pace. If you get stuck somewhere and don't want to start afresh, you can use special items to deal with problems. You can receive these items as rewards, and you can buy them with cookies. Yup, cookies are the in-game currency, earned when you complete puzzles in the "campaign". While you do get penalised for using these items, being able to sidestep frustration is worth it if you're not going for 100%. The gameplay mechanics are simple, and essentially stay the same throughout the whole game. The puzzles just become more detailed and tricky. This is a good thing, as you can reliably see your skills improve. And, if you get "in the zone", dispatching one puzzle after another becomes compelling... although this could be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending! So that's that for gameplay. The visual treatment, atmosphere, characters, and story in here will make you feel right at home, you who come from [i] Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls. [/i] Chelshia and a couple of buds go on a quest, meeting charming new characters, their progress shown to you in cutscenes interspersed among the main puzzles. A tasty expansion to the lore, absolutely! The music fits this game perfectly, I think, unifying nonogram-gameplay with monster-girl theme. I liked it enough to buy the soundtrack. Came for the franchise, stayed for the gameplay. (And got my appetite whetted for Khimera 2.)