Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how hard Picross 3D actually gets. I'm on Level 7 of the Easy section and, man, some of these are fairly challenging, i.e. I'm having to think on easy. For Medium, Hard and the ??? (Assuming it's Impossible or something cliché), how hard can they get?

Oh man, I just perfected every puzzle in the game (even the downloadable puzzle packs) just today.  Level 9 and 10 on Hard can feel really, really cheap at times but the game has a great sense of pacing and can feel adequately challenging as you progress through the game, I even felt the way you feel through Easy.  Just don't think about it, if this is your first Picross game (as it was mine) this sentiment is perfectly normal.  Eventually, you'll begin to think it was just your fault (like accidentally breaking a block you didn't mean to) rather than the game's.

Okay good. I'm just getting through Level 7, taking my time since I've been in and out of work this past week and haven't gotten that much time to play anything. I'm beginning to understand all the mechanics of it. This is my first Picross as well, and I'm actually thinking about picking up the original ones too. I can't wait to play more of this game. With this and Red Dead, I'm going to have my plate full for a while.

Oh the ??? setting is just "Random." Hard is the hardest this game can get.  =P

Haha, thank you. I've been wondering if it was just really challenging or something to that effect. How many are in there?

369 puzzles total.  Then about 29 or so from the downloadable puzzle packs.  

Nice, I don't think this is going out of my DS any time soon :)

It starts to get hard when you get to hard (Surprise!), not so much because the puzzles are that much more complex, but you start to get less useful information (5 in a square?  Ok, saving that row for later), and puzzles are intentionally nearly symmetrical to try to fool you into thinking they are.  Also the time limits on some of the smaller puzzles on the hard levels to get perfect score are pretty brutal.