people saying this is hard are rly bad at panel de pon. this is like, by a large margin, the easiest panel de pon. that being said, its still quirky and has a large variety of gameplay modes - the renders ripped straight from the anime have aged poorly and have verrryy jagged outlines, but its fun on a crt!
an officially licensed Nintendo game loaded chock-full of the crustiest jpgs and the crunchiest MIDIs on the system - this shit would be right at home on early 2000s addictinggames.com. more games need to strive for that early millenium, underground flash aesthetic. its a real untapped market of nostalgia
oh ye game's fun too
oh ye game's fun too
I’ll never understand why these N64 Pokemon games have such poor menus! Entire game modes that I couldn’t even find because of the convoluted menu design…
Is what I would say if I wasn’t in love with this game now! I have no clue how this game is so fun! See I tricked you into thinking I didn’t like this game. And that’s because I didn’t like it until very recently and my review of this game used to stop at convoluted menu design. Now this review is just slop. Have a great day :)
Is what I would say if I wasn’t in love with this game now! I have no clue how this game is so fun! See I tricked you into thinking I didn’t like this game. And that’s because I didn’t like it until very recently and my review of this game used to stop at convoluted menu design. Now this review is just slop. Have a great day :)
My best friend and I played this game on a whim one day and had a blast. Neither of us had played Panel de Pon before, so we were on equal footing and slowly learning how to play better. It's become a mainstay anytime we meet up now. We love making fun of the voice lines.
There's a lot more to this game than just the PvP, but I don't find Panel de Pon fun enough to actively go after it.
"AWW POOR BABY"
There's a lot more to this game than just the PvP, but I don't find Panel de Pon fun enough to actively go after it.
"AWW POOR BABY"
There is less lag on this game than Tetris Attack, and also a bigger window to extend combos after clearing blocks (by a few frames). Therefore, it is very good.
This is the best puzzle game at being a fighting game. Agonizing wars of attrition, planning needing to be compensated by resource management - it does not compare to Tetris, because it does not want to be Tetris. It does not want to be infinite. It simply wants you to be better. You CAN be better. And when you're better the man will say "When you're hot you're hot" while playing a MIDI piano version of a power ballad from a 4Kids album from the early 2000's. And is that not the peak of human existence?
This is the best puzzle game at being a fighting game. Agonizing wars of attrition, planning needing to be compensated by resource management - it does not compare to Tetris, because it does not want to be Tetris. It does not want to be infinite. It simply wants you to be better. You CAN be better. And when you're better the man will say "When you're hot you're hot" while playing a MIDI piano version of a power ballad from a 4Kids album from the early 2000's. And is that not the peak of human existence?
I'd like to spend more time with this game before I give it a more confident rating, since, as of the time of this writing, I've only completed a few runs of the game's 1 Player Mode. But I'm giving it a quick one now to help round off games I played last year.
It's an update of Panel de Pon, one of my absolute favorite games, themed around the Pokémon anime, one of my most nostalgic things. I think I'm more likely to turn to Panel de Pon as a rule, since I'm better tuned to that game's speed, but Puzzle League is hardly a step down. The main appeal here is in the anime cast reprising their roles, the MIDI versions of the "2 B A Master" album's tracks, and the completely superfluous detail of being able to choose your Pokémon. But I also think theming the blocks around the Gen 1 badges is a cute touch and another smart way to integrate Pokémon as an aesthetic.
Like I said, I want to spend more time with this game before I give a more definitive review/score, so don't be surprised if I revisit this and end up giving it an adjusted score down the line.
P.S. Team Rocket having a Golbat pisses me off for some reason. Like, you couldn't bother ripping anime clips or more stock animal sound effects for Lickitung or Victreebel or something? Ah, well.
It's an update of Panel de Pon, one of my absolute favorite games, themed around the Pokémon anime, one of my most nostalgic things. I think I'm more likely to turn to Panel de Pon as a rule, since I'm better tuned to that game's speed, but Puzzle League is hardly a step down. The main appeal here is in the anime cast reprising their roles, the MIDI versions of the "2 B A Master" album's tracks, and the completely superfluous detail of being able to choose your Pokémon. But I also think theming the blocks around the Gen 1 badges is a cute touch and another smart way to integrate Pokémon as an aesthetic.
Like I said, I want to spend more time with this game before I give a more definitive review/score, so don't be surprised if I revisit this and end up giving it an adjusted score down the line.
P.S. Team Rocket having a Golbat pisses me off for some reason. Like, you couldn't bother ripping anime clips or more stock animal sound effects for Lickitung or Victreebel or something? Ah, well.