16th October 2013, 8:52 PM
TurboGrafx-16
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Spin Pair (JP import game) - This is a quite unique spin on a block-dropping puzzle game. You have to match the shapes to form full images: each tile has a full half and an empty half, and you have to match them to get full ones to make them disappear. This is a very challenging game which does not play quite like any other block-dropping puzzle game -- it's all about color and shape and matching, and I find it really, really tricky. Beating this game took me several days of leaving the system on, since you can't save your progress in the Story mode. On that note, Story mode is pretty much a misnomer since the game has next to no plot, but it IS true that "Story" mode has an ending with credits after you finish it, so there is something. The game has simple but effective and well-drawn graphics, and decent music. It looks a LOT like a Hudson game, but isn't from them; Media Rings must have been trying to copy Hudson's style with this game. Well, they succeeded. So yeah, fun game overall. I like it. The TG16 doesn't have many puzzle games, so it's cool that it has this one.
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Spin Pair (JP import game) - This is a quite unique spin on a block-dropping puzzle game. You have to match the shapes to form full images: each tile has a full half and an empty half, and you have to match them to get full ones to make them disappear. This is a very challenging game which does not play quite like any other block-dropping puzzle game -- it's all about color and shape and matching, and I find it really, really tricky. Beating this game took me several days of leaving the system on, since you can't save your progress in the Story mode. On that note, Story mode is pretty much a misnomer since the game has next to no plot, but it IS true that "Story" mode has an ending with credits after you finish it, so there is something. The game has simple but effective and well-drawn graphics, and decent music. It looks a LOT like a Hudson game, but isn't from them; Media Rings must have been trying to copy Hudson's style with this game. Well, they succeeded. So yeah, fun game overall. I like it. The TG16 doesn't have many puzzle games, so it's cool that it has this one.