Capcom releases its first Xbox Windows Phone game: KenKen

We may not have received an Xbox Windows Telephone release last week, only thankfully the drought did not continue this week. What's more, the latest release is either both good news and bad news, or only manifestly good news, depending on how you lot look at it. The very skilful news: console and arcade giant Capcom is now making Windows Phone games. The kinda-sorta bad news: it's a somewhat expensive puzzle game. Still, fans of brain puzzles will admittedly eat up KenKen (akso known as KenKen Pro).

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You lot could exist forgiven for not recognizing the game of KenKen. It's really quite a popular puzzle in newspapers and such (regularly actualization in The New York Times), much like Sudoku and the discussion jumble. The Sudoku reference is apt in more ways than 1. KenKen too comes from Nippon, and even shares some of the rules of Sudoku. I'd call it a cross between Sudoku and the historic period-old sport/punishment of math.

KenKen puzzles consist of grids spanning iii x 3 squares all the mode upward to 9 x ix, the standard Sudoku grid size. Similar that popular game, the goal is to fill in all the squares on the grid with a number. A number cannot appear twice in the same row or column. But dissimilar Sudoku, all the squares commencement out blank. Groups of squares practice have little math statements in them, though. For instance, all the numbers in a grouping may need to add up to 5 or be multiplied to reach 24.

It sounds complicated and takes a little while to learn, but the game includes both a detailed help text and a video starring a geeky guy named Will Shortz, the NY Times Columnist and NPR contributor. We've embedded said video in this post then you can get an idea of the gameplay. Honestly, after about iv games the like shooting fish in a barrel puzzles became 2nd nature to me, and I can at present brand satisfying goes at the harder ones.

Value

KenKen price $4.99, which some people will deem an exorbitant toll for a puzzle game costless of bling, exploding zombies, or blinged-out exploding zombies. Merely in that location are multiple factors to consider across the appropriately simplistic presentation. Get-go off, Capcom is ane of those large Japanese publishers that balks at lowball mobile pricing trends and keeps their prices higher than average. We've seen the same matter before with Foursquare-Enix's Final Fantasy and Cave's Dodonpachi Maximum. And indeed, the iOS version of KenKen costs $4.99, so our version doesn't endure from an Achievement tax.

Now, I've merely played the game for an hour or so and this isn't review. Just I call back you can also make a proficient statement that KenKen represents a fair value from the sheer amount of content it contains. Each of the seven grid sizes contains multiple difficulties and both signed and unsigned (less detailed clues)  puzzles. And those categories accept tons of puzzles within. It will take numerous hours to finish this title without cheating, and people who like logic puzzles will have a blast getting in that location. People who value every mobile game at $1 or don't like this style of game just won't get information technology.

KenKen runs dandy on WP7 and WP8. Become it here on the Windows Phone Store (not available in Brazil or Korea).

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