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More bugs than an infested kennel

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 20
Date: April 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm updating my review as I have had the time to play this game. The flaws just pile up:

1) The game will warn you if you place an incorrect number. That alone ruins the game.

2) I though flaw #1 was bad until I started seeing the "Attention... please wait" pop-ups. The most annoying thing in a mind game. I have other PSPs that could take a lot of processing time, Winning Eleven 9 and NFS Most Wanted. Those are intense games with rich graphics. What could make a simple game like Sudoku require processing time? If I had to guess it would be the animated background I can't even get rid of.

3) The animated themes are simply annoying. After seeing the same animation over and over, is there a way to disable them avoiding the "Attention... please wait" popu-up at the same time? No such luck, you are stuck with them.

4) As of 4/9/06, the website has downloadable puzzles but no patches. If at least they made it up to paying customers by posting the utility they used to create the puzzles. But they'd have to actually care about them by releasing a patch first!!

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Defective Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: April 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I concur with the other reviews. This game has an annoying defect. I went so far as to contact tech support. This is what I was told.

"Response (Jason) - 04/10/2006 11:50 AM
Unfortunately, this is a known problem with the game that will occur when there is less than a 40% charge on the battery. We have already notified the developer of the game about the problem, but since the problem does not prevent a player from completing the game, the decision was made to not fix the problem. At this time, the only solution that I can offer you is to make sure that you have charged your battery as much as possible before playing."

However, this problem manifests itself after about 15 - 20 minutes or approximately 90% charge and not 40%. Most annoying is that Ubisoft is continuing to sell a knowingly defective product. Seems like there are laws against that.

This could be a fun game but the bug precludes that. Even if you feel this wouldn't bother you, I would not give them your money on principle.

Good game with fatal flaws

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As the reviewer below said, it will tell you as soon as you make a wrong move. This significantly reduce the challenge.
Even worse, about every 45 to 60 seconds while you are playing an Attention alert comes up covering most of the screen telling you to wait. After 10 seconds or so it goes away. This is very irritating !
I am looking forward to someone doing Sudoku right for the PSP.

Great idea... horrible bug [US version]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The overall idea and implementation for this game is good. I think there are ways it could be improved.

But all that doesn't really matter. There is a horrible bug where a huge pop-up window comes up during game-play, basically covering the entire board. The pop-up says "ATTENTION! Please wait..." and takes about 5-10 seconds and then returns you to the game.

Apparently the issue is due to some buggy code that is checking your battery life. If you aren't at full battery power with the power cord plugged in, you'll start getting the pop-up and it will happen several times per game/board.

Some people may be able to still play through this, but I find it unplayable.

Buy Another Sudoku Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: July 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We love Sudoku. We play it online quite a lot, and use the Brain Age version of Sudoku frequently as well. We thought it'd be great to have a PSP game solely dedicated to Sudoku. Unfortunately, the Go! Sudoku implementation was poor.

First off, about the gameplay in general. You get a Sudoku board, can choose from puzzles of various difficulties, and can choose a background theme. Once you play a game on a given profile, that's it. You can't play it again. Since you rarely "memorize" a board, it seems a shame not to let you replay it without resetting everything.

Next, part of how you play Sudoku is by marking the "possibles" in a given square until you figure out what it really should be. In the Brain Age version, you can do that. Here, you can't. Your only choice is to turn on "help" which then marks ALL possibles on the entire board, all the time. With help turned on, all you do is look at the board for the square with only 1 possible in it, and put that number there. Then the board updates and you look for the next square with only 1 possible in it. It's not a game at all. They should have let you put in possibles yourself, instead of making you try to juggle that all in your head.

The game has a really annoying redraw problem. Every 10 minutes or so, the game freezes with a "please wait" message that sits there for perhaps 30 seconds. Then it lets you play some more. So you might be right in the middle of doing something, and suddenly you have to twiddle your thumbs until it unfreezes. Apparently this has to do with battery charge - and the lower your battery gets, the more frequently the pop-up comes up. It counts the 'freeze time' against your total time to solve, too. Bad, bad, bad.

If you type in a wrong number, it IMMEDIATELY tells you that number is wrong. This makes no sense in Sudoku. Part of the challenge is to follow a road until you get stuck, then to backtrack and figure out what you did wrong. It's like a crossword puzzle or a maze. To just flag you immediately loses that aspect of the solving.

This is one of the only games that I've played that I completely DO NOT recommend at all. If you want to play Sudoku, buy another game. Don't buy this one.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There is a serious programming flaw in this game. A "warning" window pops up every few minutes (unless your PSP is fully charged AND plugged in!). This is INCREDIBLY annoying and I am returning the game. The manufacturer won't even acknowledge that there is a problem so I am NEVER buying another UBISOFT product again!

Glitch with Sudoku

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: May 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I agree with the other reviews. The game itself is fun and challenging but there is a terrible glitch in the programming. Ubisoft, please hear our voices and fix this problem.
It is very irritating that the "Attention" screen pops up in the middle of a game for no reason at all. It was so annoying that I had to go buy the Nintendo DS version of the game instead.

IF I COULD, I'LL GIVE IT NEGITIVE CENTILLION!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the absolutely the dumbist sudoku game EVER!
The game started out fine. Relaxing music, you choose the difficulty, style, and then you play. Well I put a wrong number in one of the boxes...Then it TELLS YOU THAT YOU PUT IN THE WRONG NUMBER!!! WhAt?! No! Nuh-uh! That defeates the WHOLE GAME! WHATS THE POINT IN PLAYING SUDOKU IF IT JUST TELLS YOU THE ANSWER?!
I think I made my point...
And oh yea, centillion has 303 zerros, just in case anyone wonders about that.

I agree and ...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I totally agree with all that was previously said, and when that pop-up comes up the time continues to tick away.. which is the MOST annoying ever. you would think that if the program was busy loading it would freeze the game but it doesn't. The time just keeps on going unless you pause the game everytime the pop-up shows up. So obnoxious. Other than all that bs, the game is pretty good, except that it tells you when you have misplaced a #. Not cool. Maybe I'll just stick with the good old piece of paper sudoku.

Loading, please wait....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game with very nice graphics and tons of puzzels HOWEVER game auto saves (nonstop) during game play for 15-20 seconds at a time; WHY!?!? That has been the only major draw back as it auto saves approx every three minutes for some reason. Too bad really.

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