Fillomino with Sudoku Variants
There's been a couple of new important releases this year in terms of metroidbrania sudoku. I've gotten through the smaller one and most of the way through the larger one. While I was solving them, it occurred to me that most of the variant rules included in these massive puzzles have already been established as sudoku variants. I find it particularly interesting to consider that clues often resemble their conventional symbols despite the logical solve path assuming the solver doesn't know what they mean until they're explained. Maybe this is intentional thematically in the same sense that someone might discover a useful trick or a secret passageway on their own in a game. But for me, I see black dot and my brain wants to go on autopilot, but I feel like I owe it to the creator to restrain myself until I see the popup that explains them. I think it would be fascinating to see a metroidbrania sudoku in which every single variant clue type is unheard of to the veterans. ...