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It's Mr. Pants

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It's Mr. Pants

Dec 7, 2004

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2.00 average rating based on 7 ratings

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Based on Rare's off-beat mascot, It's Mr. Pants is a traditional puzzle game in the Tetris sense where the challenge is to piece together specific shapes of specific colors on a flat playing field grid. The idea is simple: form rectangles of larger than 3x2 to make them disappear from play. The pieces can be rotated in 90 degree variations, important to get these tiles into the littlest slots on the field. You can't place same colors on top of each other, but you can place other colors on top of already placed shapes to remove them from play. There … More
Based on Rare's off-beat mascot, It's Mr. Pants is a traditional puzzle game in the Tetris sense where the challenge is to piece together specific shapes of specific colors on a flat playing field grid. The idea is simple: form rectangles of larger than 3x2 to make them disappear from play. The pieces can be rotated in 90 degree variations, important to get these tiles into the littlest slots on the field. You can't place same colors on top of each other, but you can place other colors on top of already placed shapes to remove them from play. There are three variations: in "Puzzle," the challenge is to remove all shapes from play with the set amount of pieces. In "Wipeout", you've got two minutes to remove all shapes from play with an infinite amount of pieces. And in "Marathon," the challenge is to constantly place and remove shapes as long as you can, trying to keep the session alive as the playfield gets eaten away from the outside in. Less
Developers
Rare
Publishers
In-Fusio, THQ
Platforms
Game Boy Advance, Gizmondo, Legacy Mobile Device
Genres
Puzzle
Themes
Comedy
Release Dates
Dec 07, 2004 (Worldwide)
Game Boy Advance
May 11, 2005 (Worldwide)
Legacy Mobile Device
TBD Cancelled (Worldwide)
Gizmondo
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How Long Is It's Mr. Pants?
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smargorps
smargorps gave Mar 20, 2016
smargorps gave Mar 20, 2016
Mr... Pants...?

I checked this out on a whim because "It's Mr Pants" is a very interesting title. I had no idea what it was, or who Mr Pants was. The description on Grouvee here says something about him because a Rare mascot, so maybe I just missed that one or something. He looks like something you'd draw in Drawn To Life for a character sprite.

Turns out it's a... puzzle game. I expected a basic platformer or something, I guess, but it's a puzzle game with a main mechanic I've never seen before. I am not all that familiar with puzzle games as a whole, so it may be a rip-off of a mechanic from something before, but I don't know it. You get randomly shaped puzzle piece a la Tetris, ranging from one square to a few squares in shapes that could be made by a few squares. You fit these along-side or over-top-of existing chunks on the board and try to build squares and rectangles. When you make one, it disappears. That's about it.

As a puzzle game, it was fun enough. Not really my kind of thing, but it worked okay. The most impressive thing was the game …

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I checked this out on a whim because "It's Mr Pants" is a very interesting title. I had no idea what it was, or who Mr Pants was. The description on Grouvee here says something about him because a Rare mascot, so maybe I just missed that one or something. He looks like something you'd draw in Drawn To Life for a character sprite.

Turns out it's a... puzzle game. I expected a basic platformer or something, I guess, but it's a puzzle game with a main mechanic I've never seen before. I am not all that familiar with puzzle games as a whole, so it may be a rip-off of a mechanic from something before, but I don't know it. You get randomly shaped puzzle piece a la Tetris, ranging from one square to a few squares in shapes that could be made by a few squares. You fit these along-side or over-top-of existing chunks on the board and try to build squares and rectangles. When you make one, it disappears. That's about it.

As a puzzle game, it was fun enough. Not really my kind of thing, but it worked okay. The most impressive thing was the game having three game modes. You can clear set boards with set pieces as a puzzle, clear a random board in fast time, or play endless and go for length/score. Those should probably be three types of modes to anticipate, but I wasn't expecting there to be actually be so much to do.

I don't generally have the interest to just sit there and do this kind of thing over and over, so it didn't last long for me. If I were somehow in the mood for a repetition-styled puzzle game, at least I have learned another option to keep in mind.

And.. Mr Pants.

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