![]() ![]() The character voice samples are a little scratchy, also. The game's soundtrack is mostly intact, but it doesn't sound quite as good as its console counterpart. On the presentation side, Puzzle Fighter does a passable job, but the game has been slightly scaled back. Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo for the Game Boy Advance plays very well, makes a great link cable game, and still stands as one of the best Tetris-style puzzle games ever made. It would have been nice to see the additional modes that were added to the Dreamcast version of the game here. Beating these opponents opens up unlockable items, such as new character colors. The game also has a street puzzle mode that puts you up against each of the game's other characters in a series of more difficult matches. If both players have steady hands, this works pretty well, but it can be a little tough to keep the system steady while playing like this, so link cable games are the recommended multiplayer option. Left, right, and the L trigger control the left player, while the A, B, and R buttons are used for the right player. Attack too often, and the game will go on forever because you won't be attacking with enough blocks.Īlong with the requisite arcade and link cable multiplayer modes, Puzzle Fighter lets you play two-player games on the same Game Boy Advance by splitting up the controls. ![]() Get too greedy with your attack setup, and you're likely to get wiped out yourself before you have time to unleash your combo. Puzzle Fighter's penchant for combos makes the game more strategic than your average puzzle game, as you need to carefully balance the need to keep your pit clean with the need to set up raucous combinations to obliterate your opponent. Even when you're playing alone, the game puts you up against a CPU opponent, so the eventual object is to put together enough chain reactions to cause a gigantic flood of blocks to dump into your enemy's pit. The final gem type is a diamond when you drop this diamond on any colored block, all gems of that color disappear from your pit. By carefully stacking up a mixture of standard and breaker gems, you can put together gigantic chain reactions for higher scores. Dropping these gems onto your standard blocks causes the whole mess to explode and disappear from your pit. The other common gem is a circular gem that also comes in various colors. ![]() When put into squares or rectangles, blocks of the same color will join together to form giant slabs of rock. Your standard gems are split up into various colors. You can rotate the two blocks around at will and drop them into your pit by pushing down. Puzzle Fighter's brand of block-dropping action is roughly identical to Sega's Baku Baku and has a little bit in common with Sega's other block-dropping game, Columns. Puzzle Fighter's penchant for combos makes the game more strategic than your average puzzle game. While the port to the GBA sacrifices some of the original game's graphical and sound quality, the gameplay is intact. ![]() However, Capcom is changing all that by releasing a new version of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo on a platform that should have had the game all along-the Game Boy Advance. Supplies of the PlayStation and Saturn release have long since dried up, and the enhanced Dreamcast version never found its way out of Japan. Since then, Capcom's fighter-filled puzzle game has become a bit of a rarity in North America. Originally released back in 1996, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo is one of those cult classic games that, at the time, you simply didn't see coming. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |