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Super Puzzle Fighter II
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Rating:  - You WILL be addicted!
This game came out 12 years ago for the playstation and to this day, it's still one of my favorite attack puzzle games of all time. It's a perfect adaptation of the original playstation version too and has lots of secrets to uncover. For those who have never played it before, the idea is to match up gems of similar colors to build up their size, and when a flashing "gem breaker" comes down that matches the color of the gem, it will break the built gems and send over stacked gems for your opponent to deal with and of course they can do the same to you. The game is EXTREMELY addicting.
Rating: - great multiplyer game
man, i got this game about 4-5 years ago, and played 2 player with our neighbor all of the time. ALL OF THE TIME. We must have spent hundreds of hours playing it, then i lost it, and shortly after, moved away. But it was great while it lasted for me, and I love tetris too. So i plan on purchasing it again.
Rating:  - Not As I Remembered
This game is just a glorified Tetris. Not as much fun as I remember and quite boring. Thank goodness for SIMS.
Rating: - Surprisingly close to the original ps version!
i couldn't find this game anywhere in a store to test it out, so i had to rely on reviews. after reading them, i wasnt expecting it to be that great, although i was expecting it to be playable. the second i started playing i had memories of beating the hell out of all my friends in college. i would say that this game, being handheld and on a different system, is as close as it could be to the original.
Rating: - The new Tetris Attack.
I love puzzle games. If there's any one genre I like above all, it'd have to be the puzzle genre. Sure, there's a lot of bad ones out there that never get anywhere, but so many of them stand the test of time, and are still played today. Tetris, Bust-a-Move, Tetris Attack, Chu Chu Rocket, Puyo Pop, and even It's Mr. Pants are all played by many, and continue with new releases that people still buy. Who knew that a game with a bunch of blocks falling around would go on to be the best selling game of all time? But in comes the new kid on the block: Puzzle Fighter. While it's a port of the PSone version, it's still fun and addictive. It does have a minor problem that would have me reduce the score to 4.5 stars if I could, but it's just so damn fun that I can't resist the 5 star rating.
Super Puzzle Fighter II is essentially Puyo Pop and Tetris Attack combined, but with Street Fighter characters thrown in for added charm. 2-tile blocks of color fall down, and you create huge gems out of them, only to eradicate them with a shining block of a certain color. Example- you make a big blue gem...and the next piece to fall down is a regular green/shining blue piece. Have the shining blue piece hit the big blue gem, and it disappears. Continue doing this, and use strategy to destroy multiple ones at the same time to chain combos together, defeating your opponent. Yeah, it sounds a little silly, and it kind of is. But you don't notice it while playing because your eyes are glued to the screen, not blinking, trying your best to not lose. And while it sounds easy, the CPU is pretty tough, even on the easy difficulty with the difficulty stars on the option menu toned all the way down. That CPU uses strategy I tell ya. Something some people I've played against in previous puzzle games never used. The main mode of the game is the Arcade Mode. It's the basic mode we all know from any puzzle game. Go through the game and beat all the characters, and even a secret boss one at the end, not immediately selectable from the beginning. It starts out very easily, but then the computer kicks in with that strategy I was talking about. Like having all the blocks on one side of the box, and letting them just stack up so they have pleanty of room to make huge gems. Expect to lose a lot when they do this. You'll just have to be quicker on the draw. There's also a Versus Mode, which I haven't really played since no one else around here has a GBA or doesn't like puzzle games. But from what I've read, it's the same as Arcade, only against another person...'kinda obvious there. Lastly is the Street Puzzle Mode. Here you can win some cool prizes for beating very tough 1-match rounds. Things you get include different colors for the characters, new win poses, music collections, voice collections, illustrations (very low-resolution though), and collections of animations. It's worth the effort to get all of these. Also, you can get the codes for the secret characters, including Akuma. He's even more menacing in chibi-ized form than he is normal.
So what's the minor problem? Now that I think about it, there's two, one being much smaller than the other. I'll get that one out of the way first, and it's an obvious one- the sound isn't the best. Voices sound good for a cart-based system and all, but they get fuzzy from time to time, as does the soundtrack. I'm not really complaining, and it doesn't take away from the gameplay...but they could've touched it up slighly better. The bigger problem is that black screen of death, as it's called by some. This has only happened once to me, but while playing, the screen will go black...and nothing happens. Pressing buttons won't make it go away, and you'll have to turn the game off/on again. Because of this, I don't play for too long at a time (a half hour tops) for fear of losing all my prizes that I fought for in the Street Puzzle mode.
The graphics are pretty good, and look identical to the PSone version, save the low-resolution illustration collection. Animations are great, and there's a lot of detail in the characters. I was actually impressed that they looked this good on the small GBA screen. Even the Capcom logo animation before you even get to the game's title screen looks great. It's from the PSone days where it'd show up all flashy. And as I mentioned above, the sound is alright. It could've been touched up more, but it gets the job done.
If you need a good puzzle game while on the go, or one to play against someone else on the GameBoy Player for GC, Puzzle Fighter II should be at the top of your list. It's one of few games I can think of that keep me coming back for more to outdo my previous ranks in the game. Here's hoping for a Third Strike version, and that they implament the characters even more for added chaos.
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