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Pokémon Puzzle League NA release: 25th September 2000 PAL release: 2nd March 2001 JP release: N/A Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo N64 Magazine Score: 89% The lack of a Japanese release for this is interesting for a few reasons. For starters, it is one of the few (if only, alongside the GBC version) Pokémon games to not get released in Japan. It’s also a version of a Japanese puzzle game called Panel De Pon, which was released on the SNES and known outside of Japan as Tetris Attack, featuring Yoshi. A sequel for Panel De Pon was developed for the Nintendo 64 and ended up getting cancelled, although it did eventually make its way to the GameCube. The Western version, however, ended up still getting developed with the Pokémon licensing attached. However, it wasn’t just a generic Pokémon theme, but one specifically relating to the English dubbing of the anime. The game opens up with a nice little animation featuring Ash, Pikachu, Oak, and the narrator from the show introducing the game, and various voice lines from the show are used throughout. The theming is really well done, and they’ve managed to fit everything around Pokémon extremely well. As a puzzle game, it’s also a really good one, with nice symbols used instead of just colours (you can also swap from the Pokémon themed icons to the original Panel De Pon ones). The object is to swap two neighbouring blocks in order to form blocks of three, with the focus on clearing multiple groups or combos at once – which sends over bad blocks to your opponent. It’s fast paced, but also feels like you can plan fairly well. If you do find yourself clearing lines too quickly, you can also press a button to speed them up, to give you more to work with. There are also a few different ways to play, with the most impressive being a 3D version, played in a cylinder that you rotate all the way round. While there’s a lot more to keep an eye on at any one time, you can quickly move some blocks a vast distance to score some good combos. There’s also a mode for solving specific puzzles, and a mode where you have to clear a set number of lines to defeat Team Rocket. Pokémon Puzzle League is a solid and very enjoyable puzzle game, and the Pokémon theming works really well. There’s a lot to like about this one. Great Remake or remaster? We’re due a new Puzzle League game. Perhaps it’s time to return to Pokémon for it, too? Official Ways to get the game There is no way to buy a new copy of Pokémon Puzzle League, the only official way to play is to rent it via the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pak. Re-Releases 2003: Nintendo Puzzle Collection (original Panel De Pon Version, Japan Only, GameCube) 2008: Wii Virtual Console 2022: Nintendo Switch Online (Subscription Only) -
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By BowserBasher · Posted
I’m fine either way. I can see how that would be annoying for the one it happens too, but another match it may have been the other way round. Speaking of this, I’ve always seen the “Stage Morph” option and wondered if anyone would be up for that (either as a theme night or maybe just a 1 hour special) I’ve never used it and wondered what chaos that would bring. -
Started playing 20 Minutes Till Dawn It's a rogue-lite survival game that provides more player agency than the one that started it all: Vampire Survivors. It's basically a twin-stick shooter with elements of the particular genre spawned by VS. Each run takes 20 minutes to win (duh) and it took me 100 minutes in total to get my first win. I was crazy op by the end. There is a lot to unlock (12 characters, 10 weapons, several permanent upgrades) and of course difficulty modifiers (similar to Ascensions in Slay the Spire). Not sure, how much time I'll spend with this, though. I feel like I've kinda seen it all already? I'll probably just try to win a few more runs with different characters and weapons and then that's it. I'll have my final thoughts ready then. Oh, did I mention Slay the Spire? While the wait for the sequel continues, I decided to delete my save file and start from scratch. This time, I'm going for one particular part of the Downfall Mod. I've had this installed on my Steam Deck for quite a while and I've enjoyed playing with the new character in standard mode, but what makes this mod so ridiculous is the addition of 8 new characters and these are only playable in a "different" mode: Downfall In this campaign you choose a character which is a boss in standard mode, for example: Slime Boss Each character comes with its own set of cards and rules and it's crazy how much work the creators of this mod have put into them...e.g.: These new slimes then are basically your minions and attack automatically at the start of your turn (and have some other special functions like adding block or weakening the enemy). The goal in this campaign is to stop the standard characters you love so much from reaching the heart. You descend the spire and at the end of each Act you have to fight one of these characters. They are the bosses now! And they can get stupidly strong I will try to get as far into Ascensions as possible with Slime Boss until StS 2 is out in early access. -
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I finished off Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition. It didn't take long to grind the coins I needed to purchase everything I was missing. Many people said playing one of the Super Mario Bros. 2 stages was the quickest way to earn money but I found this way was far more lucrative. 60 coins every few seconds. It was definitely the way to go. With the Switch 2 being released this year, I need to try and get on top on my original Switch games. I decided to crack on with Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol.1. I played Metal Slug: First Mission a year or two back but didn't really play around with any of the other titles. This was pretty fun. I loved the chunky sprites on show here, which is something that I love about this handheld system. It's quite amazing how the game plays when you consider there are only a couple of buttons to work with. I went through the game with all of the characters (ending shots below) and unlocked the hidden character and I have no idea who he is. Shout out to Billy Kane who was a thorn in my side in every single playthrough that I done. Dude kept battering with his stick combo and seemed to be always one step ahead of me. I'd rather have fought Geese Howard another round than take on Billy again. Next up... I enjoyed this one a lot more, purely because it allowed you to turn the speed up. The previous game was a little slow and here I was able to crank things up to the speed I preferred. Once again, I went through the game with each of the characters and unlocked all of the secret ones (ending shots at the bottom). The endings are pretty funny, with each of the girls winning the tournament and getting to make a wish but most of the time the wish goes wrong. A neat feature in the game is the ability to unlock items. You can equip one of them to help give you the advantage in a fight but if you lose the battle then you also lose the item. These are obtained by doing certain things in a match, like getting a perfect victory of finishing an opponent with a special move. What I did enjoy when playing through both of these games is the tasks you needed to do to get extra fighters. Remember when a fighting game wasn't sold off to the players piece by piece and you could actually earn extra fighters by doing various things in game? Happy days. Ending screens for both games
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