Super Puzzle Sisters

Will delete review when fixed. HUD does not work, clearly released before it was ready.

Avoid! Super Puzzle Sisters is quite the puzzling game. The presentation is good, the music is servicable and the controls are responsive however for a puzzle game it just isn't good enough. For one thing the game has 5 buttons...FOR WHAT PURPOSE?! Let me explain, this game is seemingly a reimagining of the old SNK puzzle games, Magical Drop series. I imagine it was at the very least inspired by them because it copies the basic puzzle forumla but manages to ruin it. Typically you line blocks up and when you get 3 or more in a row you get a 'line' and score points. If you break a line that forms another line you make a combo and that scores even more points. This game takes the combo scoring aspect and attempts to base the whole game around it. This isn't a terrible idea in itself but where this game falls apart is that you have to manually break the blocks by punching them, with button B. But only the first stack, if it makes a combo then it automatically breaks the rest, which is confusing in its inconsistancy. There is also a bug or feature where by you can break blocks on opposite ends of the grid by punching them but as long as you do it fast enough then that also counts as …

A fun little Japanese-style Arcade Puzzle game with super charming, vibrant art and delightful tunes. Not a lot for a solo player to dive into though; just a timed mode (2 or 3 minutes or something; come to think of it, I haven't been paying attention :P ), an Endless Mode, and a Wide Mode that reformats the playfield into something that fits in widescreen, which seems like an impossible thing to keep up with. But it all plays well, which is great news. Especially if you've got some friends around to dive into multiplayer with. Its that puzzle design where there are colored blocks on the playfield, and you remove some, then plop them back down on other like-colored blocks to clear them (though you have to activate the clear manually - called "Punching" here). All the while, blocks slowy creep towards the top of the playfield threatening to crush you when they reach you if you can't clear them fast enough. If you have ever played Capybara's "Critter Crunch", or Teyon's "Ball Fighter", its pretty similar except flipped around (grabbing/shooting blocks from the TOP of the playfield instead of shooting them up from the BOTTOM). Its a good design, and one most arcade puzzle fans should…

Great unique Puzzle Game, the local multiplayer and controller support works well. Could really benefit from having custom options for the arcade and multiplayer like puyopuyo/tetris, such as controlling game speed and other modifiers (faster then I would like). Also it would be nice if there was support for a button that jumped to the far left or right like tumblestone (also a great puzzle game).

Fun idea and could be alot better. It takes a little while to get used to punching things. A game like this could be great fun to play with friends and family of all ages, however the game starts a little too hard which pretty much pushed out all friends and family from playing with me. I would guess that the peices don't enter the filed in waves but instead a consistant pace. If they do come in waves then they are so shallow that it's not notacable.

There's a menu bug with Super Puzzle Sisters that slows every effect down wayyyyy too much. Fade-ins, moving objects, shrinking and growing objects,... none of those menu objects work properly and makes it very confusing to navigate. On my PC, at least. Trying to play a game mode makes the first 2 seconds of every session unplayable. I'd say the music's great... but that's just royality free from somewhere else. Not their own. I like the visual style with the voice acting too. That's something eyecatching. ...But. The menu bugs are so bad, I think the game in this state shouldn't get supported and I had to refund it. Fix those menu bugs (which probably won't happen, since the bug existed for 2 years) and I'd say this game has a potential to be something really good. A hidden gem, perhaps. Right now though? No.