Swap falling blocks out of mid-air if your timing is good enough! Tensions rise as garbage, solid chunks that require an adjacent block clear to reveal the colored blocks underneath, falls. Then, combo the block clears so that more block clears are achieved through falling blocks. Swap two adjacent horizontal blocks to match three or more. Bejeweled be damned, give me a Puzzle League game any day of the week.īlocks rise from the bottom of the stage in a random assortment of six colors. It’s a champion that is hardly remembered for the gameplay, even though it should. T etris Attack.Whatever you want to call it, it’s an addicting game that somehow needs a theme to be marketed. Take a moment, think about your options and consider going for a game that offers a fuller experience for a one-time investment.Panel de Pon. When you encounter that embankment, don’t grab for your credit card. There’s always a wall which can only be overcome by endlessly grinding past levels for money and experience or paying real cash. The Game Boy Color version isn’t really easy to find, but the digital copy is $4.99 and easy to find.Įventually, Pokemon Shuffle could end up proving to be too much for a player. Challenge, Garbage, Line Clear, Marathon, Time Zone and Puzzle are all awaiting. Again, there’s a multiplayer mode, but also a number of additional modes that offer supplemental challenges for people who simply want to match blocks without worrying about objectives. Do it often enough, and you’ll defeat trainers and collect other creatures as allies in the single player mode. Players are Pokemon and match colored panels by swapping positions of two of them. Did I mention it’s great? Because it’s great. It’s Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, essentially Intelligent Systems’ Panel de Pon/ Puzzle League/ Tetris Attack reskinned. The $4.99 used price tag makes the initial installment even more attractive.īut if you want an even better game and don’t mind jumping in the wayback machine, getting out your Game Boy Color or hopping on the 3DS eShop can get you one of the absolute best puzzle games starring Pokemon. Adventure, Battle competitive multiplayer, Endless, Forever and Pair cooperative multiplayer all enhance the gameplay, allowing someone to become a Pokemon puzzle master. Match four or more Pokemon in the Trozei box by shifting rows horizontally and vertically and you’re good, but the DS installment also offers a bevvy of gameplay modes. Again, the gameplay is pretty much identical. This was Genius Sonority’s first jab at matching puzzle games starring the eponymous pocket monsters and easily best of the three games. It’s $7.99, but that’s a small price to pay for a puzzle game you can keep playing without worrying if you have enough “hearts” or “jewels.”Įven better is Pokemon Trozei!.
You can even form teams with friends, so multiple humans tackle the matching menace. You’re rewarded for good gameplay and combos. It’s a far more strategic affair.Įspecially since each location’s battle goes through a number of critters, with performance determining if a special conditional Pokemon appears.
Success comes from quickly organizing your allies into matching groups of three or more.
Pokemon icons fill the Trozei box, and you match to defeat enemy Pokemon in the field before they whittle down your health. Where the freemium game most often relies on set numbers of turns, Pokemon Battle Trozei is an unofficially timed affair.
The difference lies in the framework and some altered functionality. Also developed by Pokemon Shuffle‘s Genius Sonority, it’s practically the same game. Pokemon Battle Trozei is the most accessible option. But then, perhaps it helps prove I’m qualified to help you get this sub-par monkey off of your back in favor of a superior one. After all, at this very moment both Pokemon Shuffle and Pokemon Shuffle Mobile have occupied territory on my 3DS and iOS device. Such talk is rather hypocritical, I suppose. Compelling mechanics and collectible critters abound, but are caught up in framework that inhibits gameplay and capriciously doles out wins and new characters. Rather, it’s a title that occupies a rather tenuous position. It isn’t a bad thing, in the world of exploitative, free-to-play puzzle games, but isn’t the best thing either.
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