Approximate amount of time to 100%: 15h+
Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Has it been in a bundle: No
Is there a good guide available: You don't need a guide
How many people have completed this game at the time I'm writing this review: 15 on Astats
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: The 101 dalmatian grids feels a bit grindy, but when you only do 5x5 puzzles it can be easily done in around an hour, the animation after completing a puzzle takes up the most time on a 5x5 puzzle
DLC-Only achievements: Yes, for the free DLC "Kitty Cross"
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty option
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No
This is a nice picross game with dogs (and cats with the free DLC). The difficulty will change from level to level, so it isn't the case that the last puzzles are hardest, although with the cat DLC the last one was a challenge, which is quite funny since it was the breed of one of my own cats.
My only complaint is that if you have turned on the mechanic that the game auto-select which parts you have done, it will already select a part while it is not yet surrounded by crosses or the edge of a puzzle. This is annoying with bigger puzzles because sometimes you think you're working toward something else while in this case, you had to place an X and then go further. I sometimes also have used this with longer rows, to not have to count when I have enough block colored, but just by looking at the number while place blocks. You have the option to turn this auto-complete the numbers off in the settings.
For the achievements, I would suggest first play through the game and after that check out which items need to be in the garden together. Do the one for all dogs in the garden as the last one because otherwise, it takes more time to clean up the garden than when you only have to place 2 to 5 items at once in the garden.
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