This week's Famitsu had some interesting news: one more go-round for Panel de Pon. For those of you unfamiliar with the name, chances are you've taken a shot or two with the game; Pon is better known in America under wacky face-lift conversion aliases, like Tetris Attack on the SNES, Pokemon Puzzle League on the GBC and N64, and most recently the Gameboy Advance Dr. Mario / Puzzle League combo cart. It's also one of the best puzzle games ever made.
Panel De Pon will be hitting Japan on the DS in April, so in the mean time, let us join hands and pray for the following: that it be Nintendo WFC-ready, that it be brought to America within a matter of months, and that it not be slapped with some other game's aesthetic style just to make it palatable. I might be so bold as to presume that the orientation of the screenshots means the game will be oriented book-style, like Hotel Dusk: Rm 215 or Brain Age, and wouldn't that just be dandy? We need more of them alternative orientation games.
Check the gallery for screenshots from Famitsu.
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11:09 AM on 02.21.2007
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I love you Aaron.
As a firm advocate that Panel de Pon is the best puzzler on the planet, I can definitely say I'm excited about this and will be buying this, either as an import or domestic release.
Also, don't you think it's okay to add some license to it? Tetris Attack was cool, and the recent Tetris DS showed that Nintendo skins in puzzle games can be cool.
If it has Wi-Fi Network capabilities like Tetris DS, this wil be one of the coolest games of all time!
I've never really tried getting into Panel de Pon or related games, but I could see myself enjoying them, because I just recently tried playing Puyo Puyo more often, and found I like it (after I wasn't terrible playing it). Tetris is still my preferred puzzle game, probably always will be.