Pixel Puzzles 2: Birds Reviews

Rating: NEUTRAL I realize these "Pixel Puzzles 2" games are tests of different things to see what works and what players like. Cool beans. My reason for neutral on this is the washout effects of the water are way too strong on some of the boards. On certain boards (may only be the bigger piece counts where the piece size also changes when picked up) every piece becomes blue in the water and loses all other coloring (has a little blue-scale shading is all). You pull out three pieces that look the same color to have one white, one brown, and one red. This is too much washing out, and I can only imagine how bad it is for anyone with any level of color blindness. This effect gets worse the larger the puzzle. I'm not sure why, but the pieces in the water are shrunken down so small for a measly 220 piece puzzle that I have to put my face on my 48" monitor to be able to make out any details on them in the water. Yet when you pick them up they double in size. There is so much open space in the water for the pieces to motor boat around in the unchangeable puzzle random movement speed that I see no reason for the pieces to be shrunken down so small it's like trying to find...a bird's gonads in winter. While neither of these are actual problems on the small puzzles, they make the larger puzzles frustrating (you can't even do sections of the puzzle based on color because all pieces are blue) and back pain inducing (because pieces in the water are so small you need tweezers to grab them). On a side note the 100 crab achievement needs to be updated. It does not trigger on 100 crabs in a play session like it reads - it requires 100 crabs on the same puzzle! I drank two six-packs while waiting for 100 crabs to drop on a single puzzle so this achievement definitely fits in the ridiculous range on non-productive time requirements.