Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

There's a new drug in town, and its name is Super Puzzle Fighter II.

That's right - morphine...cocaine...The Simpsons...Lay's Potato Chips... Hah. Child's play. Nothing will suck away your soul with such profound aplomb as SPF II. Let's analyze the facts, shall we: 1) Characters and sound bites from Street Fighter II. You know - the 2D brawler in a perpetual state of "catch and release". Perhaps no other franchise in gaming history has gone through as many iterations as SFII, while still managing to remain fresh (somehow). Why the developers decided to plop atrocious, bug-eyed anime heads on the characters, however, is puzzling in itself. 2) Easy as apple pie gameplay. You've seen it a hundred times before: line up X blocks/gems/fruit of the same color/pattern and eliminate them before they reach the top of the screen. Simple, eh? 3) "Please, sir, may I have another" replay. No match is ever the same, and the surprising amount of hidden goodies to unlock, including hidden playable characters, only seems to feed into the addictive "quality" of the game. The best way to describe SPF II would be a cross of the features among Tetris Attack, Columns, and Dr. Mario. Now that I've managed to date myself - younguns need only know Super Puzzle Fighter is one of the better Tetris "knockoffs" out there. The developers did an admirable job of porting the game from the original Playstation, as the vast majority of features remain intact - the atrocious, bug-eyed anime heads and all... Personally, I'd like to see a direct port of the SNES version of Tetris Attack - which is, in PhatPat's opinion, the greatest puzzle game of all time. Why Nintendo won't wise up to these facts and squish it into a GBA cart is beyond me. PhatPat