Been playing the Japanese version of this game, Panel de Pon, off and on over the past couple months. A really solid puzzle game with a surprising amount of content, thanks to its nice variety of modes. The wall of tiles gradually rise toward the top of the screen, and you have to swap two tiles at a time to …
Been playing the Japanese version of this game, Panel de Pon, off and on over the past couple months. A really solid puzzle game with a surprising amount of content, thanks to its nice variety of modes. The wall of tiles gradually rise toward the top of the screen, and you have to swap two tiles at a time to get 3 or more of the same color to match and disappear. Simple enough, but you need to be quick on higher difficulties, and you need to set up chains (eliminate one group, tiles from above drop down, another group is then eliminated, and so on) in order to defeat opponents. There's a story mode to play through, or you can just do a score attack and set whatever speed you want for the tiles to rise up (similar to how you can adjust difficulty freely in Dr. Mario). I also liked the puzzle mode, which limits the number of tile swaps you can do in order to clear all tiles on screen.
I think it's a shame this game was called Tetris Attack for the localized release. It has absolutely nothing to do with Tetris. If anything I'd say it plays more like Puyo Puyo and Columns, since those are puzzle games about setting up chains. Panel de Pon is definitely its own thing though, and is worth checking out regardless of what outer coating it's painted with.
