Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin.

I don't know if I'm getting this title right. Steam calls it "Picross Fairytale - nonogram: Red Riding Hood Secret" which sounds like a poor translation from ... something. And that fits with the general production value of the game.

That is, like it was ported from a mobile game, and not very well.

This is the only picross game I've played, so far, in which dragging the cursor over an already-filled square can overwrite that square. Resulting in already-checked or already-crossed squares becoming easily mislabeled. Considering picross games have been fairly widespread for some decades now, this feels like a rookie mistake.

And otherwise, the game has nothing special going for it. The plot is threadbare, a minimalist reference to stories of princes and princesses; the level progression is straightforward and inflexible, pushing you from one level to the next with no surprises; and the interface is about as dumb as possible, with no graying-out of numeric hints when they're satisfied. There is an awkward indicator when a row or column is "right," but since it doesn't take any other rows or columns into account, it's about as helpful as looking at the squares yourself would be.

And you can pay real money for some kind of currency. I don't know what it does. I can't imagine why, in a puzzle game, paying money to ... skip puzzles, I guess? ... would be even remotely okay.

Even considering that it's free, this isn't worth it. You'd do better to shell out a few bucks for a picross game that isn't as outright shitty.

Better than: Pokémon Picross
Not as good as: Pepper's Puzzles
Slightly worse than: Regency Solitaire

Progress: Got to puzzle 8.