Sudoku but worse

What was initially an original and fun concept turns into quite a frustrating game. Playing Sudoku competitively against CPUs sounds fun, and the better you are the more you can hinder them with short minigames. But those minigames are frustrating button mashers and appear way too often near the end of the campaigns. These minigames probably work way better on the Nintendo DS, another console the game was released for. There is a mode where you can play the minigames non-stop and on higher difficulties I constantly got the feeling that I had to turn the joystick around way too much for an already not-so-good joystick. And speaking of campaigns, these are some of the worst I've ever played in all video games. I know I shouldn't judge a Sudoku-type game of all games on it's campaign but it's the majority of what you'll be doing throughout the game. The dialogue is the same for every character except minimal differences, despite all of them having different goals and relationships with characters. Oh, and the same BGM plays throughout the whole game. Please, just buy a physical book of Sudoku puzzles and you'll have way more fun with it.

3/10