{"id":20610,"date":"2020-11-30T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20610"},"modified":"2020-11-01T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T13:40:07","slug":"flipon-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/30\/flipon-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipon (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of Nintendo\u2019s best puzzle games is Puzzle League.\u00a0 Originally called Panel de Pon and only released in Japan on the Super Famicom, it was later released in the US on the SNES under the name Tetris Attack (even though it has nothing to do with Tetris), and they replaced the fairy characters with Yoshi ones.\u00a0 Later on the N64, it was rebranded Pok\u00e9mon Puzzle League due to the popularity of the franchise.\u00a0 And then on the DS it was just plain old Puzzle League.\u00a0 Most recently, there was a version of it you could unlock in the Welcome Amiibo update on Animal Crossing: New Leaf (they should put it on New Horizons as well).\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised they haven\u2019t made a Switch version of Puzzle League, although now you can play Panel de Pon on the SNES Virtual Console if you have an online account.\u00a0 Anyway, at my old job, there was a plaque on the wall that read \u201cIf we don\u2019t take care of the customer, someone else will\u201d and that\u2019s exactly what has happened here because Flipon is on the Switch (and PC, but reviewed on Switch here), and it plays EXACTLY like Puzzle League.<\/p>\n

So how do you play Flipon?\u00a0 Well just like Puzzle League, you have a well full of colored blocks, and a cursor you can move around to swap two blocks.\u00a0 Do this to match three of the same color horizontally or vertically to make them disappear.\u00a0 The blocks slowly rise, so if you can make matches of more than three, or perform chain reactions, you can slow down the rise for a bit and in two player mode, you can also send garbage blocks to your opponent.\u00a0 If the blocks make it to the top of the screen, it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 And that\u2019s pretty much how you play.<\/p>\n

Flipon has four main modes.\u00a0 Campaign is the story mode and requires you to complete stages with different missions in each one.\u00a0 You may need to reach a certain score, do a number of chain reactions, or battle another CPU character.\u00a0 It\u2019s different in each stage.\u00a0 Score Attack lets you play endlessly, racking up as high of a score as you can before you lose.\u00a0 In Challenge mode, you are presented with a random mission and a well full of blocks.\u00a0 You never know if it\u2019ll be easy or hard.\u00a0 And finally in Versus, you can challenge another player locally or the CPU.<\/p>\n

Only problem I had with the game is that the challenge is set pretty steep.\u00a0 Or rather, inconsistent challenge in the campaign mode.\u00a0 One time, the first boss beat me after playing for ten minutes, but the next time I was able to beat it in seconds!\u00a0 And it\u2019s not like I\u2019m rusty at this game because I went back and played Panel de Pon and did pretty well.\u00a0 You may wonder why you\u2019d want to get Flipon if you can just play Panel de Pon, but if you don\u2019t have an online account, you can\u2019t play SNES games, and you also can\u2019t play them if you\u2019re not connected to the Internet.\u00a0 So if that\u2019s the case, or if you just played Panel de Pon to death and want a challenge, you may want to check out Flipon.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.\u00a0 Flipon is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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