Daydream Mosaics 3: Shards Of Hope

As with all of the Daydream Mosaics games, this is some nice eye candy and casual-level difficulty nonograms. You don't have to be a pro to play this because I'm nowhere near an expert at this genre but was able to complete the game in a bit under 30 hours on advanced and got all the gold medals and stars. All 120 puzzles will solve logically without extra help, although there were a couple of boards which were real nail-biters. A new play mode was added to this installment of the series which has no mistake counter at all, but I'm not sure if you will get any stars, medals, or colored stones in the thumbnails for playing in that mode. In between nonograms, you get to build 3 temples using the crystals you discovered in the nonograms. The storyline continues from DDM2, but is shorter and not quite what I was expecting based on where it left off in the previous game, but still a nice touch. 3 different minigames (HOS, spot the difference, and jigsaw puzzle) of which there are 9 each. The jigsaw puzzle is a new feature; I liked the idea, but they are sort of cluttered with how all the pieces lie atop the area where you assemble the picture and you can't hide any pieces once all the edge pieces are in place. Pros: -Lots of customization options available to set the game to your liking -Playing on a higher difficulty mode will now give you the achievement stone(s) for the easier mode(s) so you no longer have to play through the entire game 3 times if you have gaming OCD ;) -You can elect to skip the entire story at the very beginning if you don't want to be interrupted by cutscenes Cons: -Can't shut off the congratulatory captions and other words appearing on the screen which drift downwards; these always seem to be getting in the way of where you're working -I'd personally have liked a manual-only option to switch between colors and simply have the game display a check mark or some such over the color box on the right when you finish a color. The auto-changing to another color more often than not takes you to a color which isn't the best one to work on next.