Gamedaily Buku Sudoku Review

Grant Holzhauer reports:

”Let’s face it; you can’t jazz up Sudoku. Developers can put frilly graphics around the edges of the game board and stream a variety of music in the background, but the game doesn’t play differently. Typically, you have a 9×9 grid (nine rows and nine columns), which is further divided into nine 3×3 squares. Each column and row must have every number from one to nine with no repeats, and each 3×3 square must contain every number from one to nine. No two identical numbers can be contained in the same column, row or square. It’s a simple premise, really. The game varies in difficulty depending on how many numbers you start with on the board; the more you have, the easier it is to fill in the rest.

Buku Sudoku tries to spice things up by adding extra options and challenges (including larger and smaller game boards), and offers the player a host of lightly animated backgrounds and a nice, soothing soundtrack. However, two major flaws keep it from being a favorite of even the most diehard sudoku fanatic.”