I do love my panel de pon.
Started playing it cause it got released on NSO. Never got the game back in the day, but puzzle games likes this will forever hold up.
My thoughts:
(+ = (mostly) positive; - = (mostly) negative)
+ Gameplay;
Solid and introduces new "3D" mechanic. Not really a fan of that tho, bit too much for me.
+ Music;
Love all the songs I recognize from back in the day. Soundclips can get a bit too much tho.
+ Graphics;
Used actual footage from the anime. Not really anything to complain about.
- Story/Characters;
Nothing special, but less than the one on SNES.
Recommend?
Would recommend if you're into puzzeling or want to find out if it's something for you.
Started playing it cause it got released on NSO. Never got the game back in the day, but puzzle games likes this will forever hold up.
My thoughts:
(+ = (mostly) positive; - = (mostly) negative)
+ Gameplay;
Solid and introduces new "3D" mechanic. Not really a fan of that tho, bit too much for me.
+ Music;
Love all the songs I recognize from back in the day. Soundclips can get a bit too much tho.
+ Graphics;
Used actual footage from the anime. Not really anything to complain about.
- Story/Characters;
Nothing special, but less than the one on SNES.
Recommend?
Would recommend if you're into puzzeling or want to find out if it's something for you.
Pokemon Puzzle League is an interesting game to give a score. The game is fun because Tetris Attack / Panel de Pon is fun. The thing is that's the only thing good about this game. The UI is that of a 2000s flash game, the soundtrack is composed of terrible renditions of the Pokemon anime music, and progression through the single-player campaign is even ruined by the fact that you can't reach the end on anything but hard mode. If this game invented Panel de Pon and was the only way to play it then this game would get more of a pass and at the end of the day, the gameplay would supersede the terrible way this game is presented. But it isn't the only way to play Panel de Pon so what does this game actually have to offer. Giving this game a good score would feel like giving every match-three game on the app store a good score because the concept of match-three games is solid. This is a bad version of a good game. Now I'm going to go play a version of Panel de Pon that doesn't feature Ash screaming every two seconds.
WOOHOO PUZZLE LEAGUE
Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack already makes for a very fun experience, but this game has the added bonus of being an oddly charming tie-in for the beloved early seasons of the Pokémon anime. This game is as well-crafted as a kindergartener's paper diorama, and has MIDI music that would make a DOS game cry. Nevertheless, this game is charming, addicting, posseses a steady learning curve, and has cute voice acting. Please give it a try.
mt chato, pq que colocaram essa bosta no switch online?
A puzzle game that goes above and beyond with the theming. The opening cutscene, music, graphics, and menus are all dressed up like the early seasons of the Pokémon show, complete with an N64 soundfont version of the tv theme song.
There’s also a decent amount of side-content including a rotating 3D mode. The game is overall just surprisingly robust and engaging.
There’s also a decent amount of side-content including a rotating 3D mode. The game is overall just surprisingly robust and engaging.
wife and i love playing this one. can get really intense since we’re both good at it.
kind of a wraparound charm to the no-doubt rushed as hell localization and skinswap to make panel de pon into pokémon here - as another site member noted, very flash game vibe to this one, and i like it. i grew up with generation 1 and though i'm by no means a pokémon fan today, not by a longshot, this does poke a little effectively at the nostalgia part of me still holds for this era of the series. seeing all the wonky gym leader designs from the era was super charming and this was a great time to play with my friend much more knowledgeable about the franchise these days than i. i'll make the funny contrarian joke and say this is my favorite pokémon game and it's not EVEN a pokémon game but i could genuinely see myself getting a lot of mileage out of this one.
I'm unsure if there's a proper term for it... - in German maybe? - that describes a rite of passage through young adulthood that I'm sure everyone on this site has experienced on some level, at some time: finally having the disposable income to obtain something you coveted in childhood and then inevitably finding out that it wasn't everything (or even anything) that the media and advertising you consumed as a child promised you that it would be.
For me, many of these holy capital-cultural artefacts centre on Pokémon. I know it's cliche to refer to yet another Japanese entertainment juggernaut as something analogous to a religion, but it's hard to deny the comparison when your town's priest spent a lot of time between 1997 and the new millennium talking about the Satanic properties of Mr. Mime, Magikarp and Misty. The Catholic Church was afraid of Zubat for a while.
The mysticism of Pokémon was so strong in rural Scotland that my school descended into riots over Pokémon not once, but twice. When someone in our class sent a mail order to China for a copy of Pokémon Silver almost a full year before the game even existed in Europe, people handled it with the same practiced reverence they'd use at the church across the road, carrying it faithfully like it was a relic called the Ark of the Crobat or the Holy Granbull; a really cute snapshot through the crack in time that succeeded the rise of global capitalism and Thatcherite deregulation of children's advertising and preceded the advent of the mainstream internet and all that it entailed. We got our cheat codes from a newspaper back then, and the day the MissingNo glitch was revealed sent our schoolyard into rapture. But like all religions I've been involved in, time eventually revealed this false Pokéfaith for what it was - a moralless money-making vehicle for paedophiles.
While Pokémon Puzzle League wasn't high on the list of Pokérelics I coveted, it still excited me, I think - the idea of a puzzle game (I already adored Tetris) with Pokémon (I already adored Pokémon) that was faithful to the anime (I already adored Pokémon: The Animated Series) was so exciting to me, but I always ended up choosing classic N64 titles like Earthworm Jim 3D and California Speed whenever I finally scrounged together something for the offertory at Electronics Boutique. Perhaps I wasn’t as committed as I remember myself being. Finally playing through it in 2022, decades removed from the incident at my school where a nine-year-old kid was beaten up for selling fake shiny Charizard cards, I could no longer believe in the utter pish that I'd been drinking back then. I couldn't even muster a smile for a MIDI instrumental cover of the PokéRap on the title screen... What's become of me? I guess this is what it means to be an adult.
For me, many of these holy capital-cultural artefacts centre on Pokémon. I know it's cliche to refer to yet another Japanese entertainment juggernaut as something analogous to a religion, but it's hard to deny the comparison when your town's priest spent a lot of time between 1997 and the new millennium talking about the Satanic properties of Mr. Mime, Magikarp and Misty. The Catholic Church was afraid of Zubat for a while.
The mysticism of Pokémon was so strong in rural Scotland that my school descended into riots over Pokémon not once, but twice. When someone in our class sent a mail order to China for a copy of Pokémon Silver almost a full year before the game even existed in Europe, people handled it with the same practiced reverence they'd use at the church across the road, carrying it faithfully like it was a relic called the Ark of the Crobat or the Holy Granbull; a really cute snapshot through the crack in time that succeeded the rise of global capitalism and Thatcherite deregulation of children's advertising and preceded the advent of the mainstream internet and all that it entailed. We got our cheat codes from a newspaper back then, and the day the MissingNo glitch was revealed sent our schoolyard into rapture. But like all religions I've been involved in, time eventually revealed this false Pokéfaith for what it was - a moralless money-making vehicle for paedophiles.
While Pokémon Puzzle League wasn't high on the list of Pokérelics I coveted, it still excited me, I think - the idea of a puzzle game (I already adored Tetris) with Pokémon (I already adored Pokémon) that was faithful to the anime (I already adored Pokémon: The Animated Series) was so exciting to me, but I always ended up choosing classic N64 titles like Earthworm Jim 3D and California Speed whenever I finally scrounged together something for the offertory at Electronics Boutique. Perhaps I wasn’t as committed as I remember myself being. Finally playing through it in 2022, decades removed from the incident at my school where a nine-year-old kid was beaten up for selling fake shiny Charizard cards, I could no longer believe in the utter pish that I'd been drinking back then. I couldn't even muster a smile for a MIDI instrumental cover of the PokéRap on the title screen... What's become of me? I guess this is what it means to be an adult.
A simple but addictive puzzle game. Makes me hope Panel de Pon comes back soon. Playing this online must be as wild as Tetris or Puyo Puyo.
way to go!! 8DDDD
This game feels like a cheap bargain bin game you'd find at target or something... but its panel de pon with Pokemon its pretty cute I like it.
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It's Tetris Attack but because I'm so bad at it, I have the added shame of losing to Team Rocket.
Yeah it's just Puzzle League with a Pokemon skin, but that skin adds a surprising amount of charm.
First time ever playing Panel De Pon. Or Tetris Attack or whatever name it happens to have in English at any given time. It's a pretty fun puzzle game, easy to play, hard to master, that type of thing. The Pokémon skin over it all is...odd. Like they don't implement any of the actual Pokémon mechanics - moves, super effectiveness, catching, etc. The Pokémon you choose just acts as the backdrop of the stage and has the sound effects. I get that making RPG mechanics in a puzzle game might be broken, but why choose an RPG to base the game around then? Just use Yoshi again or something if you're too scared to use the real Panel De Pon characters. At least the anime music is pretty cool to have.
Also I know there's a "story", but having only Ash be playable, and then only 3 of his Pokémon be available to play is kind of lame. Like you're already doing next to nothing with the Pokémon, at least let me choose between his full kanto roster. Funnily enough you can't even choose other characters in the other various 1 player modes, as they don't have selectable Pokémon at all. So I think choosing from the wide cast is only available in 2 player mode? Admittedly I never checked that much.
Anyway I am terrible at these games. I have no eye for setting up chains, and definitely no reaction speed to put them into place. But even with that in mind, the difficulty in this game is WILD. Easy mode was of course easy, but then I got roadblocked hard by Gary, the first battle, on medium. I almost gave up, but after finally beating him I managed to stroll through the rest of normal with little difficulty outside of Erika, weirdly. Then hard mode came and I got all the way to Blaine without a single loss, but Blaine beat my ass multiple times in a row. I didn't win a single battle in one try after that, but it varied between 2 tries or many many tries. I guess you could say it's consistent that the difficulty ramped up at the end there, but, for example, with Loreli, after multiple ~3 minute matches where I kept losing, I had one game where she just lost in 18 seconds. And I didn't do anything special in that game. Maybe there's a mercy counter or something, but if that's the case then even that isn't consistent because some opponents seemed to have their "easy" match way faster than others. There were also games where I managed to pull off some pretty crazy chains (mostly by accident tbh) and the opponent recovered like nothing, while the winning game would be me doing nothing but getting a few 4 block combos. I don't get this difficulty at all, it's like the difficulty is mostly RNG, but the difficulty you select is more like the "highest" RNG it will pick.
Trying to get through npc dialogue felt pretty clunky too.
So a decent puzzle game, with a lazy Pokémon implementation and a difficulty that makes no sense. Lots of modes at least if you really wanna go deep into it.
Also I know there's a "story", but having only Ash be playable, and then only 3 of his Pokémon be available to play is kind of lame. Like you're already doing next to nothing with the Pokémon, at least let me choose between his full kanto roster. Funnily enough you can't even choose other characters in the other various 1 player modes, as they don't have selectable Pokémon at all. So I think choosing from the wide cast is only available in 2 player mode? Admittedly I never checked that much.
Anyway I am terrible at these games. I have no eye for setting up chains, and definitely no reaction speed to put them into place. But even with that in mind, the difficulty in this game is WILD. Easy mode was of course easy, but then I got roadblocked hard by Gary, the first battle, on medium. I almost gave up, but after finally beating him I managed to stroll through the rest of normal with little difficulty outside of Erika, weirdly. Then hard mode came and I got all the way to Blaine without a single loss, but Blaine beat my ass multiple times in a row. I didn't win a single battle in one try after that, but it varied between 2 tries or many many tries. I guess you could say it's consistent that the difficulty ramped up at the end there, but, for example, with Loreli, after multiple ~3 minute matches where I kept losing, I had one game where she just lost in 18 seconds. And I didn't do anything special in that game. Maybe there's a mercy counter or something, but if that's the case then even that isn't consistent because some opponents seemed to have their "easy" match way faster than others. There were also games where I managed to pull off some pretty crazy chains (mostly by accident tbh) and the opponent recovered like nothing, while the winning game would be me doing nothing but getting a few 4 block combos. I don't get this difficulty at all, it's like the difficulty is mostly RNG, but the difficulty you select is more like the "highest" RNG it will pick.
Trying to get through npc dialogue felt pretty clunky too.
So a decent puzzle game, with a lazy Pokémon implementation and a difficulty that makes no sense. Lots of modes at least if you really wanna go deep into it.
Panel de Pon has never really landed for me (my brain just does not interpret the possibilities for combos in the same way I can for Tetris and Puyo Puyo) but I gotta say this game is still a pretty good time. Helps that it's a bit of nostalgia for the early days of the anime, hearing extremely compressed voice clips of the 4kids cast and dumpy midi versions of the songs from the "2 B a Master" CD lends the game a lot of charm.
It's Puzzle League. There's nothing to say but that it's fun and has some cute themes.
It's Panel de Pon, what can I say. The Mono music and show assets kill me though. Why do I have to stare at Jesse and James in Viking outfits for so long....
Claramente é um produto 100% comercial, só pra aproveitar o sucesso da marca. Pelo que entendi esse era pra ser uma sequência de um jogo similar de SNES que de última hora virou essa aberração. A interface grita "site feito em flash no começo dos anos 2000", tudo mal cortado com rebarbas aparecendo. O aproveitamento das artes do desenho é extremamente mal feita, tudo tá só colado de qualquer jeito. Realmente tenebroso.
O jogo em si é mais uma variação genérica de match-3, e não tem muito mais o que dizer. Mas é tudo tão barato e vagabundo que sinceramente, não entendo com que cara a Nintendo decidiu botar isso no Switch Online.
Acho que o pior pra mim é que pouco tempo depois desse jogo entrar no catálogo, Kirby Avalanche entrou pro catálogo de SNES. É outro jogo de battle puzzle mas ele tem uma apresentação mil vezes mais interessante e bem feita. E é um jogo que saiu anos antes do Pokémon Puzzle League num console inferior.
O jogo em si é mais uma variação genérica de match-3, e não tem muito mais o que dizer. Mas é tudo tão barato e vagabundo que sinceramente, não entendo com que cara a Nintendo decidiu botar isso no Switch Online.
Acho que o pior pra mim é que pouco tempo depois desse jogo entrar no catálogo, Kirby Avalanche entrou pro catálogo de SNES. É outro jogo de battle puzzle mas ele tem uma apresentação mil vezes mais interessante e bem feita. E é um jogo que saiu anos antes do Pokémon Puzzle League num console inferior.
Addictive to the point where it's dangerous. I 'just one more go'd this mother fucker till half 12 last night. If this wasn't Pokémon it'd probably be even better. I loved Panel de Pon and the music in that was ace. Shame we had to get this garish reskin complete with the annoying cartoon voices, but gameplay wise it's great and those 3D ones kick your arse.
I think I will leave it be now though, as I would like to get to bed at a reasonable hour. I am old.
I think I will leave it be now though, as I would like to get to bed at a reasonable hour. I am old.
How has no one made a Panel de 'Mon pun yet?
It's, fine, I guess. This really feels like a mobile game before mobile games were a thing. There is a very respectable amount of modes, let's give it that. But puzzle games just arent my thing to be frank.
AWWWW, POH BABIE
Maybe one day I'll stop playing these kinds of games. I'm never good at them. The story mode in this game was probably a lot easier that other games in this genre, but it was still basically too hard for me by the end.
This game was pretty frustrating. The mechanics of the game didn't work as well as I felt they should. It was so precise to slide a block in underneath falling blocks, and it's impossible to slide a block under if it's one block below. Which is really annoying. Also by adding a layer of new blocks underneath everything as time went on, sometimes it would just randomly start a chain that ended up messing with what I was trying to do, which got really frustrating by the end of the game when I NEEDED to think and work fast.
Ultimately the story mode was just frustrating and annoying.
The puzzle levels were more interesting to me, but I also found that most of the time I was just using trial and error to get through, which wasn't fun. There were some pretty decent puzzles though.
Anyways the art was fine and the music was, at best, just boring remixes of the anime/movie songs with no vocals, and at worst, they got annoying after the 2nd time hearing them. Overall, I wasn't really a fan of this game, but there was at least a bit of fun to be had.
This game was pretty frustrating. The mechanics of the game didn't work as well as I felt they should. It was so precise to slide a block in underneath falling blocks, and it's impossible to slide a block under if it's one block below. Which is really annoying. Also by adding a layer of new blocks underneath everything as time went on, sometimes it would just randomly start a chain that ended up messing with what I was trying to do, which got really frustrating by the end of the game when I NEEDED to think and work fast.
Ultimately the story mode was just frustrating and annoying.
The puzzle levels were more interesting to me, but I also found that most of the time I was just using trial and error to get through, which wasn't fun. There were some pretty decent puzzles though.
Anyways the art was fine and the music was, at best, just boring remixes of the anime/movie songs with no vocals, and at worst, they got annoying after the 2nd time hearing them. Overall, I wasn't really a fan of this game, but there was at least a bit of fun to be had.
Ya it's fun. it's like panel de pon but better cause it has pokemon lol!
Tetris Attack o Panel de Pon pero con Pokémon. No hay mucho más que agregar.
Hay Voice Acting del anime en inglés, y cuando logras hacer combos escucharas a los Pokémon decir su nombre. Esta clase de sonidos son los que le encantan a la persona que está jugando pero molesta a los que están cerca.
De todas formas es muy divertido, todavía no logro pasarlo en Very Hard.
Hay Voice Acting del anime en inglés, y cuando logras hacer combos escucharas a los Pokémon decir su nombre. Esta clase de sonidos son los que le encantan a la persona que está jugando pero molesta a los que están cerca.
De todas formas es muy divertido, todavía no logro pasarlo en Very Hard.
Nunca pude jugar esto de peque y como solo super del juego por Club Nintendo tenia años de emocionarme por al fin jugarlo.
La wea rota asjakfaskfa
La wea rota asjakfaskfa
It's Panel De Pon, but Pokémon! Panel De Pon is one of the more rewarding feeling puzzle games to get good at, and I think having the many different modes in this is really cool!
There's not much to say, it's Panel De Pon! Go play Panel De Pon!
There's not much to say, it's Panel De Pon! Go play Panel De Pon!
via Nintendo Switch Online Nintendo 64
I hate this game turned me into what I swore I'd never become: a Candy Crush mom.
Really, I've been obsessed with it. I don't know exactly how long I've played since I play other games on Nintendo 64 online but according to in-game stats it's somewhere between 4 and 25 hours--and probably on the latter side. I haven't "finished" the game because I'm unsure if I will be able to. I'm stuck both on the Giovanni level in the Very Hard tournament for 1 player and the Special Giovanni level after 6-5 in the Spa Service, which seems almost impossible. I might finish it one day but I'm satisfied with that for now.
3D mode is some kind of fresh hell when you're first starting it, though. It took me a couple of days to get used to it and I almost gave up but you get used to it over time.
Anyways, I've never played the OG Puzzle League but this is a fun game (that pushed me to the brink of insanity so there was a time when everytime I closed my eyes I saw colorful blocks)... I main Team Rocket or Sabrina in 2 player mode, which I've forced my begrudging peers to play with me.
I hate this game turned me into what I swore I'd never become: a Candy Crush mom.
Really, I've been obsessed with it. I don't know exactly how long I've played since I play other games on Nintendo 64 online but according to in-game stats it's somewhere between 4 and 25 hours--and probably on the latter side. I haven't "finished" the game because I'm unsure if I will be able to. I'm stuck both on the Giovanni level in the Very Hard tournament for 1 player and the Special Giovanni level after 6-5 in the Spa Service, which seems almost impossible. I might finish it one day but I'm satisfied with that for now.
3D mode is some kind of fresh hell when you're first starting it, though. It took me a couple of days to get used to it and I almost gave up but you get used to it over time.
Anyways, I've never played the OG Puzzle League but this is a fun game (that pushed me to the brink of insanity so there was a time when everytime I closed my eyes I saw colorful blocks)... I main Team Rocket or Sabrina in 2 player mode, which I've forced my begrudging peers to play with me.