Pokémon has been plastered over every sort of thing you can think of, so of course an already existing puzzle game - Panel De Pon - got the treatment.
Half a decade later and although some things have been added, such as a 3D version, the game is still the same and in fact I would say that although this version is more “content complete” it's a little worse.
I would normally not "mark down" due to a Pokémon skin, even based off of the anime. I have nostalgia for it. I enjoyed the short intro and laughed when I beat Tracey in 14 seconds because I always thought he was crap.
It's just as a skin it comes across a little cheap.
This is probably due to the technology, using existing art from the cartoons makes sense but the quality is low and for me doesn't stand up to the beautiful pixel art Panel De Pon had.
The campaign is as simple as you'd expect in a puzzle game but again feels less than the game it's copying.
I finished Normal and Hard, so maybe I missed on the really cool stuff like Misty with a machine gun in Very Hard, but I doubt it.
It's a shame that it's so half baked, the panels can either look like the classic ones or Pokémon themed but where some are 'types' like water, fire, grass, there is also "circle"... could they really not have thought of something else?
I would have also liked that picking your Pokémon could actually affect the match up. A bonus for matching your types panels maybe?
Overall, this is fine. It's good even because it's Panel De Pon but I find almost no reason to recommend it over just playing the classic outside of if you are truly Poké-pilled, high on them Ash-fumes and then maybe the skin will be worth it.
I only clicked on the game to remind me what it was exactly and then completed it twice though, so if you want to gauge how addictive it can be then there's a clue.
Half a decade later and although some things have been added, such as a 3D version, the game is still the same and in fact I would say that although this version is more “content complete” it's a little worse.
I would normally not "mark down" due to a Pokémon skin, even based off of the anime. I have nostalgia for it. I enjoyed the short intro and laughed when I beat Tracey in 14 seconds because I always thought he was crap.
It's just as a skin it comes across a little cheap.
This is probably due to the technology, using existing art from the cartoons makes sense but the quality is low and for me doesn't stand up to the beautiful pixel art Panel De Pon had.
The campaign is as simple as you'd expect in a puzzle game but again feels less than the game it's copying.
I finished Normal and Hard, so maybe I missed on the really cool stuff like Misty with a machine gun in Very Hard, but I doubt it.
It's a shame that it's so half baked, the panels can either look like the classic ones or Pokémon themed but where some are 'types' like water, fire, grass, there is also "circle"... could they really not have thought of something else?
I would have also liked that picking your Pokémon could actually affect the match up. A bonus for matching your types panels maybe?
Overall, this is fine. It's good even because it's Panel De Pon but I find almost no reason to recommend it over just playing the classic outside of if you are truly Poké-pilled, high on them Ash-fumes and then maybe the skin will be worth it.
I only clicked on the game to remind me what it was exactly and then completed it twice though, so if you want to gauge how addictive it can be then there's a clue.