Zendoku Review - DS

Just when you thought we didn’t need another Su Doku rip-off, along comes Zendoku to bring a new twist on the brain addling digit manipulation genre. Where martial arts meets mathematics. Actually, as you’ll see in the Zendoku review, Zendoku replaces numbers with symbols, but the gameplay remains the same, only far more frenetic and competitive, with a fighting theme. So if you’ve been hankering after a thematic story driven Su Doku puzzler, because it looks cooler than The Times, Zendoku is made for you. Download the magazine to read our Zendoku review.Click here to read the full Zendoku Review for Nintendo DS now!

Zendoku Review - DS
Brawny alpha males wanting to assert their athletic dominance have always been well catered for by videogames. Likewise, those players of a more logical persuasion have had Tetris, Puz zle Bobble and Lumines to test IQ and reflexes in competitive play. But not since Super Puzzle Fighter has a game like Zendoku brought together the traditionally chalk and cheesy disciplines of head-to-head pixel combat and speed puzzling.
Viewed ungenerously, Zendoku is simply Sudoku using symbols instead of numbers all overlaid with a tongue-in-cheek martial arts theme. In reality it’s a stuffed and compelling package offering a fully-featured infinite Sudoku creator as well as its main feature: an intelligent reworking of the Sudoku formula perfectly suited to high-speed competitive play.
For the benefit of anybody who hasn’t read a newspaper in the last three years, the rules of Sudoku are disarmingly simple in synopsis. You play on a nine by nine square grid – which is internally divided into three by three boxes. The aim of the game is to fill every row, column and box with one of each number from one to nine – making sure there are no repeats – using logic only (never guesswork).

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