The people who made Pure Crosswords have a lot of faith in their own skills. On the eShop, the full name of the game is "Pure Crosswords: the best Crossword Puzzle Word Game ever!" Even though I haven't played many crossword puzzle video games, I was a little sceptical because the last two games I reviewed from the same developer were boring and easy to forget.
But, give credit where it's due: Pure Crosswords is a great example of this type of book. I mean, it doesn't change what people have been doing with pencil and paper for the last 150 years, but it doesn't need to. It just needs to make the Switch screen feel like a piece of paper and a pencil, and it does that.
It also does this with a pretty clean user interface. The crossword is on the top half of the screen and the keyboard is on the bottom. Even though there is a lot on the screen at once, it is still easy to read. When you consider that the game has 2,250 puzzles (750 each for easy, medium, and hard levels of difficulty) and a way to keep track of your stats across all of them, you can see why the people who made it were so proud of what they'd made.
There are a few things I would change. Because the buttons on the keyboard aren't always easy to press, you might sometimes get one letter instead of another. Some of the clues can be hard or hard to figure out, but at worst, they are about as hard as the Thursday crossword in the New York Times, not the Sunday crossword.
If those are the only problems I have with Pure Crosswords, then it must be doing something right. I still wouldn't call it the best Crossword Puzzle Word Game ever, but if you like wordle unlimited, it's still a lot of fun.
The binary family gave us a code for Pure Crosswords Switch so that we could review it.
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