The reason for this is that the more gems you smash at once, the more Counter gems are unleashed onto your opponent's play area, allowing you disrupt their own building plans and ensure that their screen fills up. You might, for example, want to pair your gems up with others of the same colour in order to build bigger Power gems. Sure, stopping the screen filling up with gems is the primary concern, but, because the game is designed as a two player experience, it's all about thinking quickly and being decisive about when the time is right to shatter your gems. The basic idea isn't so much to clear gems willy-nilly. At last! A one-button Street Fighter 2 game!
In the classic Arcade mode, a pair of randomly coloured gems descend down a 12 block by 6 block rectangular play area, and it's your job to rotate them, guide them left or right and set them down wherever you see fit - usually with the aim of matching like with like and shattering them before your screen fills to the top. He also rightly points out that, at first glance, it looks a bit like "a cheesy Tetris clone wearing Street Fighter clothes". So, er, he's going to be somewhat pleased at its arrival. SparklingĪs Dan Whitehead noted in his recent PSP review of Capcom Puzzle World, "It is, quite simply, one of the greatest games ever made and a permanent fixture in my all-time top 10". For 800 points (£6.80) you can't really go wrong. Effectively, it's the ultimate version of a true puzzle classic, combining everything from the arcade version and the Dreamcast edition and a few modern refinements to make it the definite article. Originally released in arcades way back in 1996, this isn't just some unaltered shovelware, chucked out with zero care and attention. With Street Fighter 2 the sole representative on Xbox Live Arcade, it seemed only a matter of time before the Japanese giant got around to digitally distributing more of its revered back catalogue.Īnd so it has proven, with this week seeing the long-awaited release of a jazzed-up version of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, or just Puzzle Fighter as we'll refer to it from here on. Unlike Namco, Konami, Atari, Midway, and, more recently, SEGA, Capcom has seemingly resisted the cynical urge to lovelessly cash-in on its retro glories from decades past.
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