This is the Game Gear version of Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, which features characters from the "Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog" cartoon. It's a nice way to present this Puyo Puyo game.
Puyo Puyo is a block dropping game where they come down in pairs of blocks. You must stack and match at least 4 of the same colour to clear them out. It's usually played competitively, where you try and make chains of blocks clearing in order to dump rubbish blocks onto your opponents side with the aim making their screen flood and collapse.
There are 3 modes of play.
Scenario mode is the competitive mode where you play in stages against Dr Robotnik and his robots, including Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts from the cartoon. There's a little high score table and a password system that uses 4 characters.
Exercise mode is the solo endless game where you select your difficulty and away you go. There's the odd special block you get that mixes things up and there's a little high score table here too. Should be a good place to practise chains.
Puzzle mode is stage based where you're given little missions on what to do on prepared stacks of blocks. It's presented as a training manual for Dr. Robotnik's robots which is pretty cute. There's a 4 digit password system in place here too so you can continue at a different time.
Blocks, play area and text are nice and easy to see on the small screen.
Oh Puyo Puyo, nice! Now Puyo Puyo is a fun puzzle game, though I've mainly played it as Puyo Pop Fever for DS. Pretty cool that they used the cartoon characters. I can't think of another Sonic game where they used them.
ReplyDeleteYeah Puyo Puyo has an interesting history. I think this is the only game that had the cartoon characters but I'm not sure. Loved the cartoon growing up :)
DeleteI only watched the cartoon a few times, but it's good to see the characters used somewhere.
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