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Currently Playing: Slitherlink PD

What Is It? Slitherlink, but on Playdate. You know, I just figured out what the PD stood for. Have I mentioned I'm a dumb person?

Gameplay Overview: You have a grid and follow the clues on the grid to make one continuous, slitherling line. The lines slithers, and you link it. Slitherlink.

Here's The Game Page!
https://play.date/games/slitherlink-pd/

Here's Some Pictures!
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Thoughts:
-Slitherlink PD is slitherlink. Do I need to explain slitherlink or is this a well enough known puzzle type to skip?
-In case this is new, you have a grid that shows numbers. Numbers indicate how many lines can be touching that square. Like if it says three, then three of the four sides will be drawn in. Squares that dont show a number can theoretically be any number. You need to make one (and only one) continuous loop using the clues. Thats sliterhlink.
-This is one game I can probably score without even playing it. This is just slitherlink. I know how I feel about slitherlink. Here is what Ill say at the end: This was fine and I dont mind slitherlink but I have a hard time recommending a game that just as easily couldve been a puzzle book and nothing would change.
-Like maybe this is great is you love slitherlink and you play every night before bed and you named your son slitherlink as your wife tearfully looked on while regretting her promise to you that you could name the first kid. You had teased it would be a family name, but all along you knew it was going to be slitherlink. Oh, itll be a surprise darling, but I guarantee youll like it. The fool. She never understood you like Slitherlink did. And slitherlink will be here long after she leaves. They all leave in the end. Anyways, thats the kind of person you need to be to get excited about this game.
-Like, its fine. ITS FINE. Okay? Slitherlink lovers out there. Relax. Stop sending me hate mail.
-But, again, is anyones favorite videogame crossword puzzles? Thats what this feels like. Someone just stole the solutions from the back of a slitherlink puzzle book and this game was born.
-I dont mind slitherlink, but this is the kind of grandpa game Id play before bed for a couple of stages before getting tired, taking off my glasses, and soaking my dentures overnight.
-Stages start off as 8x8 and then goes all the way up to like 24x20 or something close to that.
-I fly through the 6x6 puzzles, even with tv on in the background.
-Thats another thing about this game. I was playing it and was like hm let me put something on tv so I dont get bored. I dont do that when Im playing Resident Evil 4. I promise you I wasnt looking for Office reruns when I was playing Crankin. If I need something to keep me from being bored when Im playing a game, its a bad sign.
-Also, if you make a wrong move you just need to go back and quickly scan where your logic error is and hope it didnt lead to too many other problems.
-On one puzzle I wound up needing to just restart over, which wasnt too bad since the puzzle is small but I am anticipating despair when I make one mistake on the huge puzzle and spend ten minutes trying to figure out what I did wrong.
-So Im through 46 of 90 puzzles now. I get the feeling this will far and away have the most playtime on the system. Some of the biggest puzzles take like a solid hour to finish. I mean, I get sort of distracted sometimes while playing and Ill look up at whatever I have on Youtube or quickly search something on my phone, but the big puzzles do take a while.
-I need something non-Slitherlink to take a break with. Ill come back to Sliterlink though. Those final 44 puzzles will not get the best of me. MARK MY WORDS SLITHERLINK.
-Oh, I'm also confused about the "best times" each puzzle has. Am I supposed to play the same puzzle over again? What's the point of that? It is a definitive solution so improving my score is less "aha beat my old time!" and more "aha I cheated and knew the solution beforehand!"
-Also, here's free slitherlink puzzles online: https://www.brainbashers.com/slitherlink.asp
-There, I just saved you a couple of bucks in case you were tempted by the sweet sweet allure of Slitherlink PD

Time Played: I think like ten hours, total. I actually started this like four games ago and I just got over the halfway mark. Well, maybe not even that. I only have done a couple of the big puzzles and the big puzzles can take like 30-60 mins while the small ones were all 2-5. So there's a lot of game left here.
High Score: 46/90 llinks slithered
Beaten? Nope
Grade: Probably a 4 or a 5? It isn't terrible, but it isn't anything. It's just a very common puzzle type put on the Playdate. No frills or tricks or anything. I feel like these are always some of the easiest games to make because you're really just putting someone else's ideas in a game and selling that.
Favorite Part So Far: Beating the big puzzle with no mistakes made me feel smart. Well, as smart as I can feel when I couldn't figure out the "PD" at the end was Playdate.