I must've tried this ten times by now and always bomb out about 15 minutes in. It makes me feel so fucking stupid. How the fuck do people do this? 😭
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Maybe take a break and try again another day. But you can get a couple of squares on the bottom row.
This thing only appears once a day, so I've tried again another day many times by now. I've failed this attempt as well.
It has a Pause feature in the menu so you can take a break from the puzzle and come back to it later. I wouldn't worry about trying to get it in 30 minutes. Also there are a few passwords that unlock large puzzles (you can't access them any other way, it's not cheating) if you want to get some experience with them. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/3ds/183130-pokemon-picross/cheats/ But yeah, keep trying, be patient. It can be hard when you're new to it.
EDIT: Also don't be afraid to use Blue Force. Greninja should work if you picked it up in Area 3. Really helped me learn back in the day. It shows you which rows and columns to look at.
I don't have Greninja, only the lil frog. I might try the link, the next time I have the fortitude for it. Thank you.
Practice, patience, and process of elimination. Also, imagine sliding the segments of filled in squares around their row/column. There may be spots where it's impossible to not have a square, regardless of the arrangement. Like, imagine the middle two squares of a 10-wide row with a 6 square segment somewhere inside it.
For example, it's impossible to not have the square on the bottom row, 4th from the left filled in in that picture.
That's what's happening in the 14th and 15th row, but it's nigh impossible to do with these giant things that are all 1-3 tiny blocks.
Another trick I use is to exploit the fact that there has to be at least one empty tile between segments. Like, if you look at the 1125 row, there's 5 empty spaces to the right of the square, so you can mark the rightmost one as empty.
Also, just making a habit of going back and forth between looking at rows and looking at columns is good, I think.
My favorite part of picross is when you think you're starting to get it it, until you start hitting the bigger and harder puzzles. And then they make you feel bad for not being excited about the increased complexity.
I mean, I certainly "want" to do it, but every time I try one of these bigger ones, I feel like I've learned nothing. It just looks like hieroglyphics to me.
I do agree that I could just be content with a Picross game that didn't feel the need to ramp up and instead just gives me more standard squares forever. Clearly, I can't handle anything more.