Hello everyone, Laian here with another game guide. Well, in a rush because of technical issues I won't explain, I made a short one this time. Welcome to my game guide of "Mario's Picross", a game released for Game Boy in 1995. Fun fact: I saw the commercial when I was a kid and I really wanted this game. Never got it (sadness...). It's a puzzle game, I know. Let me go straight to the point. I won't spoil anything, I won't show the solutions to the puzzles. It would totally ruin the fun out of this game. See this guide as a guide for beginners, like the one I made for Fatal Labyrinth, with useful tips and all. So let's get started right now!

PART 1: MARIO'S PICROSS, WHAT'S THIS?

As I said in the introduction, it's a puzzle game. A picture puzzle game, to be fair. Which means the solution of the puzzle will represent a picture. There are over 200 puzzles, waiting for you to be solved. First of all, you choose one of the three files available. Then, you can see three categories.

"How to play" is the tutorial (or how to play the game... without playing it, since everything will be automatic an you'll just have to press the "A" button to proceed to the next tip). So why is this game guide useful? There is stuff the game does not tell you, so I'll tell the hidden stuff. It's just a few tips and that's all.

Then, "Easy picross" is a first series of puzzles you can solve. Easy stuff, starting with these puzzles is highly recommended. You can choose any puzzle you want to solve, there's no order.

And finally we have the last category "Picross". More puzzles to solve in two other categories named "Kinoko" and "Star". When you start the game, you can only access the "Kinoko" section. The other category is locked and you have to complete the other puzzles in order to be able to solve the last puzzles of the game.

PART 2: CONTROLS AND TIPS (AND ADVICES)

Directional cross: move the cursor

A button: select/chisel (black square)

B button: cancel/ mark an empty square with a "X"

Start button: select/pause

Select button: does nothing

Basic controls indeed. Note that you can hold the A button and a direction to chisel a series of squares. The same goes to the B button and a direction. Needless to press the A button once, then move to another square and press the A button once more.

Now, it's time for a few tips and advices. It doesn't hurt to know a few things in order to make puzzle solving way easier.

1) Always start with what's easy. A row and a column is a set of fifthteen little squares. If you see a row or a column with the number "15", chisel all the squares. If you see "0", well... just mark all the squares with a X.

2) Always keep track of each row and column. By that, I mean that when you're done with filling the correct squares, just mark the others with a X. It will make puzzle solving a bit easier.

3) You get a time penalty if you make a mistake. One is ok, two... well, you better be careful. More than two? Awww. Try to take your time and see what you can do easily and then what you have a bit of trouble with. And don't worry: if you fail, don't give up and learn from your mistakes.

4) Always chisel the fives middle square of a row or a column if the number is 10 or above.

Now, you know everything to solve these puzzles. Time to take on the challenge, if you dare.

An that concludes this short game guide. Again, no spoilers so you can solve the puzzles by yourself. If you were expecting mister Laian to give the solutions to all the puzzles, sorry to burst your bubble but it would ruin the fun. And for the last time, I had to do a short guide in a rush because of a technical issue (my bad luck, yay...). Next month, I should be able to make a better guide for you folks, the one I actually wanted to make this month. Hopefully nothing bad happens. Until next time, take care.