Status Reset_Tears Jul 30, 2022
I played this one on the Super Famicom Switch Online app, via my Japanese account. A pretty fun little "falling blocks" action-puzzle game I hadn't heard of before! (Apparently it was also on Game Boy.) Reminded me a lot of Baku Baku, but simpler and Kirby-er. Basically animal blocks fall down (an owl, a hamster, or a fish) along with …
I played this one on the Super Famicom Switch Online app, via my Japanese account. A pretty fun little "falling blocks" action-puzzle game I hadn't heard of before! (Apparently it was also on Game Boy.) Reminded me a lot of Baku Baku, but simpler and Kirby-er. Basically animal blocks fall down (an owl, a hamster, or a fish) along with star blocks, two at a time. You want to move and rotate these blocks so that you arrange star blocks inbetween two of the same animal blocks, either vertically or horizontally. So something like:
[hamster] [star] [star] [star] [star] [hamter]
That would make the two hamster blocks and the four star blocks disappear. If you set up a chain (making blocks disappear, then blocks from above fall to make more sets of blocks disappear, etc), the combo gives you bonus stars that fall in a line and can keep the chain going even further. It's quite satisfying to get high chains in this one... and not that hard, either. This is a great game for those who find something like Puyo Puyo too difficult. But really though, I think Kirby Star Stacker is just a tad too simple, because it's so common for me to get a bunch of chains going without even trying. Maybe there needed to be another animal or two to work with? All in all it's still a decent diversion though, and hopefully it'll be added to SNES Switch Online app at some point because the game's perfectly playable without Japanese knowledge.