かにあつめ

Pixel Puzzles鳥編。
全25パズル。
ピースの回転有り、途中でやめても保存される。
ランダムに沸くカニを集めることで3種類のスキルが発動できる。
ペンギンのパズルが少し難しめ。
何か作業しながらマッタリやるにはいいゲーム。

ジグソーパズルゲーム。
オーソドックスなジグソーパズルゲームで、あくまでSteamでジグソーパズルしたい場合や実績やカード目的のゲームだ。
ヒント機能を使うためにカニを集める要素がある。出現したカニを掴んで右の網に入れていけばヒント機能を使うことができる。ただし、このカニがパズル盤上を動き回り邪魔になるためにストレスの要因になっている。ヒント機能もそうだがUI周りは改善の余地がある。盤外のピースを掴むときに機能ボタンが邪魔な位置にあり、盤外の背景もゴチャゴチャしていて水中ということもあり、ピースが非常に見づらい。
このため、同ディベロッパーの他のパズルの方がプレイしやすいので、そちらの方をプレイすることを薦める。どうしても鳥がテーマのパズルをやりたいというなら仕方がないが、このゲームのジグソーパズルの絵の半分近くはペンギンと偏っているのでオススメはしない。

This is the fourth Pixel Puzzles game I've played, and the only one so far that I would not recommend. I love puzzles, both physical and digital, and I finished every puzzle in this game, but there were so many built-in and unnecessary annoyances that I couldn't recommend it to anyone else.

First and most importantly, someone had the idea to make the background patterned. I'm sure they meant well, but building a patterned puzzle on a patterned backdrop is extremely difficult, especially with the larger puzzles that have smaller pieces. With some, seeing the edges was nearly impossible, even with changing the color of the patterned backdrop. Without being able to make out the shape of the edges, adding pieces became a sort of "trial-and-error" of dropping every somewhat-matching piece into the spot and hoping one will fit. There is, as far as I could see, no way to get a nice solid background to work with, only color-changes of the pattern; this can help but doesn't solve the problem. To me, this is a game-ruining design flaw.

The hint system isn't awful but it adds another layer of annoyance. The crabs you have to gather to "spend" on hints spawn directly under your cursor. If you're trying to work in an area, you have to drop the piece you're working on to move the damned crab out of the way. If by some chance the crab spawns where you have a few pieces piled up, you have to move every piece before you can grab the crab. If you have a LOT of pieces piled up (i.e. if you're sorting them), it can take forever to get everything moved so you can get the crab moved. Not game breaking, but very annoying.

The other problem I had with it was purely aesthetic. Birds aren't the most interesting thing to me, but I was expecting bright birds with pretty plumage, tropical birds and peacocks, things that are pretty and make great puzzles. Instead, you get a lot of penguins, ducks, and raptors, and very few were bright and engaging. The end result for me personally was boredom. By the final, largest puzzle, I was sick of brown birds, brown ducks, and hundreds of penguins. So I opened the last puzzle to fiinish this game off, and there were more penguins (I shook my head with a sigh and sallied forth anyway). There was some variety in the pictures, but even the variety was dull. Now, this is a personal preference so others might not agree here, but it was my personal opinion on it.

So after 20+ hours playing the game and finishing every puzzle for the sake of my own achievement-seeking OCD, I just can't recommend it to anyone else unless the poor background and annoying hint system aren't likely to bother you.

**update**
**years later**
I checked, and sure enough, as was pointed out to me, the messy backgrounds do appear to have been adjusted to be easier on the eyes. Also, pretty much Pixel Puzzles Ultimate has superceded all of the previous standalone games, so there's that. Anyway! What follows is the original review as written back then,


I was liking the Pixel Puzzles series until this one, where they decided to make the game difficult to interact with in pointless ways.
As you can see from the featured screenshots, the background you have to do your puzzles against is just a mess of random lines. If you have ever wondered why people don't choose to do their jigsaw puzzles on a paisley tablecloth or their clan tartan, then here is your answer.
As you can also see from the screenshots, the UI buttons float in the water with the puzzle pieces, making it harder to pick the pieces up.
The crabs... the crabs that run out from under the pieces are simply a pain in the ass. Add in the fuzzy, low-res, and rather boring pictures of birds, and it starts to look like the features screenshots on the store page are not so much an enticement to play the game, but a dire prophecy, foretelling the horrors that await within.
It's not a bad thing to mix things up a bit, and make some changes to sequel games to keep them fresh, but every change they made to the series with this game has been for the worse, and that is what I find most puzzling of all.

難しすぎ

I am extremely disappointed in this version of pixel puzzles. I played Pixel Puzzles: Japan and thoroughly enjoyed it (outside of not being able to easily click the piece you wanted). Seems they fixed that with "Birds", but the background is so horrible I cannot see the pictures. In the pond area where the pieces are floating, there are 6 buttons floating around getting in your way of seeing the pieces plus one ginormous fishing net where you are supposed to drop crabs - that are annoying and run all over your puzzle building space. When you fill up the net, you are supposed to get an award, but they don't seem to work and the crabs have now completely obscured the puzzle pieces floating "below" the net. It is hard enough locating the pieces you need, because they are all mostly blue and they are "under" the water, altering their color slightly, so it is hard to pick the piece you want. There is an option to put a little staging bar at the bottom where you can store pieces, but that also has a craggly, rippled background (as does the building area) which really plays havoc with your eyes. Also, when you put that little staging area there, the pieces floating above the building area are hidden from view. You have to take that away to "find" them again. I tried to take a screenshot of what I am talking about, using the F12 key, but that too seems to be broken. I am so annoyed that I purchased this. It is not fun at all; It is not relaxing at all, and I do not want to play it at all. Boo - hiss devs. Took something great and made it something I'm sorry I purchased.

if you like jigsaw puzzles you will love this game for sure.
i enjoyed all 3 Pixel Puzzles games that they released so far, this one has added the rotation feature ( you have to rotate the piece to figure how and where it should be placed) which made the game harder and it will take more time to solve the puzzles, i really recommend them all to any jigsaw puzzles fan.

i would suggest Putting your own music while playing.

I liked Pixel Puzzle Japan the best. The koi were a little annoying but you could stuff one in the spout and end the annoyance. I played the Zombies butI didn't much care for the timetrials of that one. This one, the crabs. They are so annoying, as are the floating button buoys. The crab collecting is part of the game (crabs = hint currency), but still annoying. The rotation of the pieces isn't intuitive (the instructions aren't clear you hold both mouse buttons) at first, but the mechanic is a nice twist on the series.

I got it for 66% off in the Steam Summer sale and I think US$3.39. If you can find it for less, then even better, but 50% off or better it is a thumbs up (US$5 or less).

PixelPuzzles2: Birds is another game from the PixelPuzzles series. It's still a nice and entertaining jigsaw puzzle game. But typical for PixelPuzzles 2 it has become a little bit harder. Puzzle pieces can be rotated into four directions. So more possibilities to do it wrong. Thankfully there's a built-in help function. Collect crabs into a fishnet bar on the right side.They appear randomly between the puzzles pieces on the playfield. Unfortunately for puzzling the playfield is not very decent. Tough you can change the color but the stone bumb map still remains. The bird pictures are also pretty much one sided like many penguins and shore birds.