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- Reviewed on: 04/11/2003
- Released on: 03/31/2003
- Originally published on GameSpot: Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (Game Boy Advance) Review
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. Since then, Capcom's fighter-filled puzzle game has become a bit of a rarity in North America. Supplies of the PlayStation and Saturn release have long since dried up, and the enhanced Dreamcast version never found its way out of Japan. 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. While the port to the GBA sacrifices some of the original game's graphical and sound quality, the gameplay is intact.
Puzzle Fighter's penchant for combos makes the game more strategic than your average puzzle game.
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. Blocks enter your pit in groups of two. You can rotate the two blocks around at will and drop them into your pit by pushing down. There are two basic types of blocks. Your standard gems are split up into various colors. When put into squares or rectangles, blocks of the same color will join together to form giant slabs of rock. The other common gem is a circular gem that also comes in various colors. Dropping these gems onto your standard blocks causes the whole mess to explode and 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. 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. 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.
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. Get too greedy with your attack setup, and you're likely to get wiped out yourself before you have time to unleash your combo. Attack too often, and the game will go on forever because you won't be attacking with enough blocks.
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