{"id":17397,"date":"2018-01-22T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17397"},"modified":"2018-01-09T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T17:45:49","slug":"puzzle-fighter-ios-android-google-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/22\/puzzle-fighter-ios-android-google-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle Fighter (iOS, Android, Google Play)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo is one of my top three favorite puzzle games, right on up there with Bust-A-Move\/Puzzle Bobble and plain ol\u2019 Tetris.\u00a0 So I was really excited when Capcom announced a new Puzzle Fighter game for mobile devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 I was worried since it was going to be free-to-play, but you can read on to find out if my concerns were justified.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve changed a few gameplay aspects in this sequel, but the basic rules are still the same.\u00a0 Gems drop from the top and you must rotate them to fall into place at the bottom.\u00a0 When you line up gems of the same color into a square, they\u2019ll form a bigger gem.\u00a0 Circle blocks will clear out gems of that same color, and the bigger the gem, the higher the payout.\u00a0 I was worried about it having touch screen controls, but they work pretty well here.<\/p>\n

Some of the gameplay changes I don\u2019t mind either.\u00a0 One thing they added to this game was a life bar.\u00a0 When you match and clear gems, you\u2019ll deplete your opponent\u2019s life bar, and whoever\u2019s life gets to zero first, loses.\u00a0 In the old game, if your stack of blocks reaches the top, then you lose.\u00a0 But here, it just takes a big chunk of life off you bar, so your opponent will still have an advantage.\u00a0 I should also mention they added a colorblind mode, which is good.<\/p>\n

But what I don\u2019t like is how they handle garbage blocks.\u00a0 In the old game, when you match up gems, you can dump garbage blocks on your opponent.\u00a0 The blocks will count down and when they reach zero, you can match them again.\u00a0 This gives players about to lose a chance for a comeback.\u00a0 But in this game, you don\u2019t get to use garbage blocks until you reach a certain rank in online mode, and it takes FOREVER to get enough points to do that.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had this game on my iPad for a few months and I still haven\u2019t gotten past the first rank, and I\u2019m pretty good at the game.\u00a0 Without the garbage blocks, the game just isn\u2019t the same.<\/p>\n

You can play against the computer in three missions per day and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 The rest of the time you can play online.\u00a0 But again, it\u2019s not that much fun without garbage blocks, and if you have a bad connection, it\u2019s hard to play at all.\u00a0 You can spend earned coins to level up your attack moves when you match up gems, or use real money to level them up.\u00a0 So the term \u2018pay to win\u2019 really applies to this game and it sucks.\u00a0 That\u2019s what makes it so hard to get anywhere in this game.<\/p>\n

A lot of others complain about the 3-D chibi characters, but I don\u2019t mind them at all.\u00a0 And the background stages are cool, too.\u00a0 There\u2019s even a couple from Okami and Dr. Wily\u2019s castle from Mega Man 2!\u00a0 But unfortunately, you can only play as a select few characters like Chun-Li, Ryu, Blanka, Frank West, etc.\u00a0 The rest you have to buy.\u00a0 Which kills me since some of the characters I\u2019ve seen include Mega Man X, a Servebot, and supposedly later even Phoenix Wright!\u00a0 Argh!\u00a0 But you have to buy those characters and they\u2019re really expensive and not always available.<\/p>\n

I played this game at PAX West last year and got to pick Mega Man X and use garbage blocks.\u00a0 I know they told me the game would get some changes when it was released, but I still feel like I was lied to.\u00a0 The game I downloaded was drastically different.\u00a0 I would rather pay money for the whole game, and then be able to play the computer and local players whenever I wanted, and choose all the characters and stages, too.\u00a0 A console version like that would be wonderful.\u00a0 The game is free to download, so it won\u2019t hurt you if you want to try it.\u00a0 But if you liked the original game as much as I did, be prepared for some disappointment.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Characters can punch and kick each other, but it\u2019s very cartoony.\u00a0 Parental supervision is recommended for online interactions and in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo is one of my top three favorite puzzle games, right on up there with Bust-A-Move\/Puzzle Bobble and plain ol\u2019 Tetris.\u00a0 So I was really excited when Capcom announced a new Puzzle Fighter game for mobile devices (reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 I was worried since it was going to be free-to-play, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17399,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17397\/revisions\/17399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}