Hsien-Ko (Lei-Lei in Japan) from Night Warriors.A spin-off that uses most of these character sprites called Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix was released in 1997. The characters are from Capcom's two major fighting game sequels, Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge. Y-Mode makes the gems break as soon as three or more are aligned in a row, column, or diagonally, like in Columns, whereas Z-mode makes lines of gems rise up from the bottom of the screen, and the player controls a 2x2 square cursor, with which they rotate already-placed pieces, similarly to Tetris Attack. Whereas X-mode is the original version of the core game, Y-Mode and Z-Mode have more drastic gameplay changes. The Dreamcast version of the game adds three separate modes: X-Mode, Y-Mode, and Z-Mode. The game continues until one player's field reaches the top of its fourth column (which is where all new gems first appear). These animations, however, are purely cosmetic and have no actual bearing on the gameplay other than to indicate the magnitude of the counters. The more Counter Gems the player sends over, the "bigger" the move the character will perform. Every time one player sends Counter Gems to their opponent, their character will perform a typical fighting-game action, anything from a taunt to a special move.
Sousai can also be used to send garbage back to the opponent, known as Garbage overflow.ĭuring the game, super deformed versions of various characters from Capcom's two main fighting game series ( Street Fighter and Darkstalkers) act out a comical battle based on how the game is going. This will allow a player to counter and negate garbage being sent by the opponent with chains of their own. Puzzle Fighter borrowed rules originally found in Puyo Puyo 2 called Sousai (Garbage Countering). ) The diamond piece appears every 25 pieces. However, there is a bug that allows players to bypass this reduction.
The diamond is supposed to create half the number of Counter Gems as a normal chain reaction. (This, too, will cause Counter Gems to appear on the opponent's board. The only other type of piece to appear is a diamond, which eliminates all the gems-normal, Power, Counter, and Crash alike-of whichever color gem it lands on. Additionally, gems of the same color that form squares or rectangles (of at least two blocks tall and wide) in the pit become a giant Power Gem of that size and color eliminating these as part of a combo increases the number of Counter Gems that would otherwise normally appear on the opponent's board. If this is done, all Counter Gems immediately adjacent to the Crash Gem will be taken out as well. The only way to eliminate Counter Gems before they become normal gems is to place a Crash Gem of that color nearby so it eliminates at least one normal gem. Most Counter Gems start at "5" and are reduced by one each time a new pair of gems is dropped on that board. When gems are eliminated, "garbage blocks" called Counter Gems drop into the opponent's playfield these will eventually become normal gems, but only after they count down to zero. In Puzzle Fighter, however, gems can only be eliminated by coming into contact with a Crash Gem of the same color, which eliminates all adjacent gems of that color, setting up the potential for huge chain reactions. As in the Capcom arcade game Pnickies, the player controls pairs of blocks ("gems" in game parlance) that drop into a pit-like playfield (twelve blocks tall by six blocks wide, with the fourth column from the left being thirteen blocks high). Puzzle Fighter is a puzzle game which is similar to the Sega arcade game Baku Baku Animal. 4 Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix was made backwards compatible on Xbox One in June 2019. A successor, Puzzle Fighter, was released for mobile devices in 2017.
It was a response to Sega's Puyo Puyo 2 that had been sweeping the Japanese arcade scene.Ī HD- remake version titled Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, is available on Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade and Sony's PlayStation Network. The game's title is a parody of Super Street Fighter II Turbo (called Super Street Fighter II X in Japan), as there were no other Puzzle Fighter games at the time, and the game includes music and interface elements spoofing the Street Fighter Alpha and Darkstalkers games. Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, released in Japan as Super Puzzle Fighter II X, is a one or two player tile-matching puzzle video game first released in 1996 for the CP System II (CPS2) arcade board, by Capcom and its Capcom Coin-Op division.