You know the problem with Sudoku? It’s not hardcore enough. All that mulling through numbers in your brainbonce just doesn’t cut the mustard – oh no, Sir. Carol Vorderman? Pfft – we don’t need no stinking Carol Vorderman. What we need is Billy Idol a skull. It’s well known amongst all the cool cats that nothing is as hardcore as Billy Idol a skull. Except perhaps Iggy Pop but today we’re in mourning for Ron Asheton so we’re not going there.
And music? None of that namby pamby sitting in an elevator waiting to reach the fourteenth floor of the urine stained tower block, oh no, we’ve got some Billy Idol weird bastardardised metal jig stuff on a really short loop to help drive you extra insane. Sudoku X is Hardcore with a capital CORE. It’s also Sudoku. With a skull. And a metal jig playing over the top.
Let’s take a small pause here to contemplate this… Sudoku, with a skull obscuring the numbers on the screen making it really quite awkward to solve the puzzles in the first place and an annoying metal jig blaring out over the top. And someone thought this was a good idea? Does the world really need a teenage angst game of Sudoku? Surely the kids are all off slashing their wrists on the remnants of Live Journal or something? If they’re not, they soon will be after 8 minutes with Sudoku X.
As per usual I handed the controls over to resident Sudoku expert, Mrs Bob who proceeded to threaten to kill me if I ever made her play the game again whilst muttering under her breath about “why don’t you just dangle me upside down by my legs and flash lights in my eyes whilst I play”. The jury is out on whether this is an open invite or the depths of exasperation being uttered unto the world in. Obviously, on a personal note I’d hope for the former but it’s not likely is it, dear readers?
The scary thing is, it’s actually quite well made – it’s just a bizarre and not entirely advisable entry into the ever growing collection of Sudoku games. When the far more pleasant and enjoyable Couples Sudoku exists and you don’t have to squint to see the numbers underneath a giant rotating Billy Idol skull it makes me wonder who exactly this game is aimed at.
Hardcore Sudoku. I’ve seen it all now. Coming up tomorrow on the Community Games Service: Faces Of Death:Cross Stitching, Night Of The Living Deadtrix and Saw V: Numbrix.
Video after the jump.
This title was 200 Points at the time of writing this review but has since been reduced to 80 Points.
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Actually, can someone please make Night Of The Living Deadtrix?
I’d like that.
Arrrgh, my brain keeps turning the skill inside out so it never makes a full turn – it gets half way and then reverses (unless I concentrate really, really hard like you have to with those magic pictures).
They should get rid of the skull and instead delete all numbers after 666 seconds. Now that would be scary (and less annoying *g*).
This game has awesome presentation, and you can just turn the music down or replace it with some streaming tunes of your own, no biggy.
Also you can turn the skull off, did no one bother to look in the options?
It does have an unforgivable mistake though, you can pause the game to stop the timer and still do the puzzle, such an easy thing to avoid by making the board invisible while you are paused, seems like not enough playtesting was done…