Also, the menus get really sticky with the directional pad. Movement feels really awkward in practice. Why you can’t move the pieces with the directional pad you were already using is a mystery to me. You use the directional pad to navigate the menu and puzzle pieces, but then must grab the piece with the A button and drag with the analogue stick. The controls don’t allow you to work very efficiently. Replay value here is pretty low, as you can finish these puzzles rather quickly, but I would say the initial value is questionable right from the start. As far as puzzles go, none of these are going to be unsolvable, it is just a differentiation between the amount of time you will be spending sifting through the pieces to complete the image. From there you choose the size you wish to play with, which determines the number of pieces the puzzle is broken down into and thus the overall difficulty.

You can choose between thirty potential puzzles, each of which is marked by a theme. This is the main, and only screen you will get to see. I will never understand why a developer thinks having a single page be where your entire game takes place makes sense, but that’s just me. Efficient! However, this is seriously where you will see everything, with directions for the controls in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, puzzle selection on the right, and then the puzzle itself in the centre-left. You are presented with a title screen that also doubles as the playfield and settings page. Unfortunately, they don’t even take this simple idea and wrap it up with a nice bow, as this one is total bore finished off with pretty bad controls. What you see is what you get: a selection of images that you can break up into randomised jigsaw puzzles that you then must reassemble. There are no hidden secrets or interesting ways that they have combined the classic tabletop puzzle and formed it into an interesting concept. JigSaw Solace takes everything that your grandmother loves about putting together jigsaw puzzles and dismantles it piece by piece.

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