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BEST SUDOKU THERE IS!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I HAVE PLAYED ALMOST EVERY SUDOKU PRODUCT OUT THERE AND THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE.

Great if you Love Sudoku!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game! If you love Sudoku it is great. it is easy to use, easy to read, easy to operate, and lots of fun. I love the way you can enter your pencil numbers and they are easy to add and erase. it is easy to stop a game and come back later to finish it - just remember to exit out all the way to the main menu! I played the challenges and the karuko too - first time for me. they are easy to learn and easy to play - the game helps you alot(Karuko only). you do not need to use the extra help it gives you (Karuko only), but you can if you want to.

Overall! Great buy!

A great gift

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was a gift for a friend who really enjoys sudoku. He loves it so much, he keeps running down the battery on his Nintendo system.

If you love sudoku you'll love this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I recentlly got hooked on Sudoku and had to have this for my DS. This game is great. Not only does it have sudoku but some other challenges which are also fun. I love the fact that it has help tips for those puzzles which are a little more advanced than I can handle. I would recomend this to all sudoku lovers.

for the addict

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Really fun and encourages addiction.

pros - more sudoku games than you can shake a DS at.
the mini games are fun, too.

cons - no option to turn off the coach.
pencil marking is very tiny and hard to read and edit.
Only tracks a single player.
auto-save is weird, you have to go out to the main menu before the "Saving" message is displayed.

Excellent!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game for the DS. I like how you can pencil in possible numbers and also like that it gives you the number combo possibilities for kakuro (I wouldn't play kakuro otherwise). Because of this game I now like kakuro. I wish this was available for the pc also.

One of the best around...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 33 / 35
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Having tried a raft of sudoku games for the DS, I eagerly awaited Platinum Sudoku.

Not THE best, I think that still goes to Brain Age's Sudoku. But definitely hands down better than others I've tried. I'd give it a 4.5 if I could, but it's just short of the mark of being a 5.

The execution is nice and clean. There is a a choice between using handwriting recognition to fill in the answers (or jot in a note!) or you can use the number pad available to the right (my preference, as it's faster.)

There are other simple games which they call "challenges", as well as Kakuro. I am not a big fan of Kakuro, but it's a nice touch.

There are many customization options to choose from at the beginning. As you unlock levels, you are given backgrounds and other games to play.

One of the custom options is one I wish I could turn off. At the start of Platinum Sudoku, you're offered your choice of a male or female guide. You can turn off the coaching offered during the game, but as another reviewer stated, the "Awesome!" cheer at the end of a game is a little juvenile. My choice would have been to be able to choose no guide at all, but it's a small point.

I'm a little puzzled by the tutorials. For those just learning sudoku, the tutorial gives a good basis for solving puzzles. However, the "Lessons" portion seems to be locked until you solve a certain number of puzzles. I've finished quite a few puzzles so far, but they are still locked. Having lessons (like hints and tips on more complicated solving strategies) seems rather odd to me.

There is a multiplayer option, but unfortunately you need a second copy of the game, no game sharing.

All in all, I think it's a solid game module, and it's the one I'd recommend to all ages and levels.

I like this one - but has a few tweaks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: August 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a good Sudoku and Kakuro game. It follows the main Kakuro rule where there is only one logical solution. The part I really think is kind of un-necessary is the image of the boy or girl saying "that was awesome" when you complete a puzzle. The OCR needs a bit of tweaking as it doesn't always recognize when you write a number. Overall, I think it's a keeper.

Top Notch Portable Gaming Entertainment

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: October 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wonderful gameplay, incredible puzzles, and fun. Just perfect for your portable gaming fix. Buy it today. Recommended!

MC White says: Check it out!!!

for a beginner.. versus brain age

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just started playing Sudoku a couple weeks back on the Brain Age 2 cart and I enjoyed playing through a few of the "easy" puzzles and learning the game. I decided to go ahead and get a dedicated Sudoku game so I picked this one up. I was a little frustrated by the fact that the "easy" beginner puzzles on Platinum Sudoku seem MUCH harder than the "easy" puzzles on Brain Age. Just to prove to myself that I wasn't crazy, I fired up the Brain Age version and was able to solve an "easy" puzzle in about 20ish minutes where an "easy" puzzle on this cart can easily take me an hour.

I realize that I am pretty much a Sudoku newbie, so this won't apply to everyone. It would have been really nice for the developers of this game to leave the lessons in the game unlocked so we newbies could get a few hints before we're made to feel like buffoons :)

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