A pleasant, well crafted Japanese Sony Imagesoft Picross. For logic lovers, short but agreeable, without big surprises.
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Category
Puzzle1 player3+
Description
Picross game with logic grids to solve revealing hidden images, distributed by Nintendo Power. Published by Nintendo, released in Japan in 1996 via Nintendo Power. Number grids to solve revealing hidden drawings and progressive difficulty. First Oekaki Logic on Super Famicom.
Oekaki Logic review
3/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Polished"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
1/5
Story
★★★★★
"Anecdotal"
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Cross-referencing the clues, filling the right squares and watching the picture emerge sustains a quiet pleasure of deduction from one grid to the next. The difficulty deepens, every solved puzzle calls for the next and the challenge stays crystal clear. Austere and repetitive for some, this nonogram keeps a logical efficiency that time leaves untouched.
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
Q1 damagedQ6 completeQ10 new
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Collector interest
First of the two Sunsoft picross games distributed via Nintendo Power, burned onto a flash cartridge at a Lawson kiosk rather than factory-pressed. Predating Nintendo's Picross NP series, it attests to the Japanese appetite for grid logic on this dematerialised medium. Desirability rests on the scarcity of the NP run combined with its precedence in the service's picross wave, sought by enthusiasts of the genre.
Is Oekaki Logic still worth playing in 2026?
Oekaki Logic is a well-made Japanese Picross that cleanly brings the pleasure of nonogram grids to the Super Famicom. The principle is timeless, and the satisfaction of revealing a picture cell by cell still works just as well today. The period interface and a reasonable difficulty curve keep it accessible, even without reading Japanese. Short and free of big surprises, it remains a safe bet for logic fans, provided you enjoy this kind of repetitive, soothing puzzle.
