Tangram Style (Nintendo 3DS) Review

For those that don't know, tangram is a geometric puzzle where the goal is to put together seven different pieces into a specific shape. The pieces are always the same and consist of five right-angled triangles in different sizes, a square and a parallelogram. Solving these puzzles requires all seven parts to be used without any overlap to cover the given silhouette. The recognition sadly tends to be a bit finicky and it's not unusual to encounter a situation where one would think that the tangram is solved but the game says otherwise because one piece is a tiny bit off. It's not a big issue but having a slightly more lenient recognition would have been appreciated.

There are four different modes of tangram to play. Classic Mode follows the rules described above. Child Mode colour-codes each space to make it easier for younger players to solve but it's completely redundant for everybody else. Challenge Mode puts some pressure on the player by adding a time limit while One Touch Mode doesn't allow taking moves back and requires carefully thought out plans. Solving tangrams in different modes will slowly unlock collectable totems and even more puzzles to tackle. Unfortunately, even the different game modes add little variety and it becomes very repetitive rather quickly.