Panel de Pon
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| Panel de Pon | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Intelligent Systems |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Distributor(s) | Nintendo |
| Designer(s) | Gunpei Yokoi |
| Release date(s) | JPN October 27, 1995 NA September 1996 EU November 28, 1996 |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | 1-player, 2-player |
| Rating(s) | Everyone |
| Platform(s) | Super Famicom/SNES Satellaview |
| Media | 1MB Super NES cartridge |
Panel de Pon (パネルでポン Paneru de Pon) is a puzzle game developed by Nintendo's Intelligent Systems, released in Japan on October 27, 1995 for the Super Famicom. It was released in North America about a year later as a different version called Tetris Attack, featuring characters from Yoshi's Island.
In 2000, the game was redesigned with Pokémon-themed characters and areas, and released as Pokémon Puzzle League for Nintendo 64, and as Pokémon Puzzle Challenge for Game Boy Color. While Pokémon Puzzle League was released only in the US, Pokémon Puzzle Challenge was released in all regions.
An enhanced version/sequel was included in the 2003 Japanese release Nintendo Puzzle Collection for the Nintendo GameCube, featuring a 4-player mode, and once more in 2005 on Game Boy Advance as the latter title within Dr. Mario & Puzzle League.
A new title in the series is coming for the Nintendo DS: Planet Puzzle League/Panel de Pon DS. It was announced for release on April 26th (Panel de Pon DS for Japan) and June 4th (Planet Puzzle League for North America).
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[edit] Gameplay
In Panel de Pon, a cursor is used to move tiles. The cursor can be positioned anywhere within the playing field, a 6 x 12 grid. When the action button is pressed, the two tiles beneath the cursor will exchange position, i.e. they are "swapped" or "flipped".
When three or more tiles of the same color are lined up in a row or column (not diagonally), they light up and subsequently disappear from the playing field. Once they are cleared, any tiles that were above them will drop. The cursor is free to move while tiles are disappearing, so players can line up more tiles.
When more than three tiles are cleared with a single flip, it is called a combo. Combos are counted on-screen with plain numbers (4, 5, 6, etc.). The maximum number of tiles that can be cleared in a single flip of the tiles is 14, but anything higher than 10 is rare during routine play.
Chains are instances when tiles which fall as the result of a clear trigger another clear. The player may rearrange tiles while the clear is taking place in order to cause a chain to occur. If this is timed in conjunction with the falling of tiles, the chain is called a skill chain. Chains are counted on-screen with numbers with an "x" prefix (x2, x3, x4, etc.).
[edit] Scoring for chains
The maximum designation of a chain in Panel de Pon is "x13". Any chain higher than a 13-chain gets zero points for each additional "link". If playing in the competitive mode (in either version of the game), it is possible to make a chain that is larger than 24. From "x14" to "x24", "x?" is the on-screen representation. After this point, no symbol appears. This level of play is sometimes referred to as "chaining blanks". Outside of competitive mode, the theoretical maximum chain length is 24, since each link in the chain requires at least three tiles, there are only 72 that can fit on the screen at once, and the screen cannot be raised while a chain is occurring.
[edit] Story
The evil devil king Sanatos has cast a spell over the world of Popples to cause fighting among the fairies. The Fairy of Flowers Lip is unaffected due to her magic stick. Lip must defeat each of her fairy friends in a puzzle game to return their personalities to normal and face off against Sanatos.
Upon completion of hard mode, it is discovered that the final boss, the Goddess Corderia is actually Lip's mother and Queen of the fairies. She tells Lip that it was all a test to see if she had the strength to be the new Queen of the next generation of fairies.
[edit] Differences from Tetris Attack
[edit] Game music
The music remained unchanged between Panel de Pon and Tetris Attack, except that Tetris Attack has arranged versions of tracks from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. The original Panel de Pon title theme, the original Game Over theme, and Corderia's theme were dummied out of Tetris Attack, but they are included in the Tetris Attack SPC emulator music archive, available at Snesmusic.org. The Tetris Attack title theme is an arrangement of the Yoshi's Island title theme. The demo theme in Tetris Attack was originally Lip's theme. Bowser's theme was originally Sanatos' theme, and his appearance music is the music for PDP's final boss (the "danger" music for this stage is not included in Tetris Attack). Yoshi's theme and the Tetris Attack Game Over theme are arrangements of the Story Music Box theme in Yoshi's Island. The original Panel de Pon soundtrack was scored by Masaya Kuzume. The music tracks from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island were arranged by Yuka Tsujiyoko.
[edit] Stages
Many of the stages were left intact for Tetris Attack, but there were a few exceptions. Yoshi, Flying Wiggler, and all four bosses were given new stages. Yoshi's new stage had mountains with faces as seen in some other Mario games. Ruby, who was replaced by Flying Wiggler, had a stage that seemed to be a cavern made of Rubies. Flying Wiggler was given a flowery meadow for a stage, although the stage music remained the same. In Panel De Pon, each boss had a different stage, but in Tetris Attack, the first three bosses were given the same stage, which was made to resemble the cave where they are found in 1-player versus mode. Bowser's stage was based on Dragon's stage (the second boss in Panel De Pon), but with a stone Bowser face in the background. The Phoenix, Sanatos and Corderia stage backgrounds were completely removed from Tetris Attack.
[edit] Password system in one player versus mode
Panel de Pon does not offer the opportunity to enter passwords in 1 Player VS. mode. This was added to Tetris Attack.
[edit] Computer opponent in one player versus mode
In Tetris attack, the AI in the final four stages of Hard Mode in will attempt to score chains, whereas in Panel de Pon, it will not.
[edit] Characters
This is the cast of characters from Panel de Pon. To see the cast of Tetris Attack, see the character replacement table below.
Fairies:
Lip: Lip (リップ Rippu) is the main character in the original game in the series. She is a flower fairy who ressembles a human child with reddish-brown hair with a long ponytail. She owns a flower-shaped stick. She is the default character you play as in 1P VS. mode.
Windy: Windy (ウィンディ) is a wind fairy with pink hair and a green skirt and shirt. She is faced in Stage 1 of 1P VS. mode.
Sharbet: Sharbet (シャーベット Shabetto, Japanese pronunciation of "sherbet") is a snow fairy. She has icy blue hair, white gloves, a green skirt and T-shirt and a short, purple cape. She is battled in Stage 2 of 1P VS. mode.
Thiana: Thiana (ティアナ) is the forest fairy. She ressembles a pre-teen with semi-transparent green clothes and long green hair tied back in a ponytail. She is faced in Stage 3 of 1P VS. mode.
Ruby: Ruby (ルビー Rubi) is a jewel fairy, and the one fairy who ressembles the stereotypical winged fairy. She wears a dark purplish-blue dress and has green hair that extends above her head. She is met in stage 4 of 1P VS. mode.
Elias: Elias (エリアス Erias) is a water fairy. She ressembles a peaceful young maiden with very long blue hair and a turquoise dress. She is faced in Stage 5 in 1P VS. mode.
Flare: Flare (フレア Frare) is a fire fairy. She ressembles a young woman with long, curly red hair with a tiara on top of her head, a sleeveless blue shirt and a blue skirt. She is faced in Stage 6 in 1P VS mode.
Neris: Neris (ネリス) is a mermaid with long green hair and seashell brassiere. She is faced in Stage 7 of 1P VS. mode.
Seren: Seren (セレン) is a moon fairy who is the last of the fairies to rescue before fighting the enemies. She is depicted as a young woman with long curly blond hair, a crescent moon on her forehead, a white dress and a crescent moon staff which bears her a striking ressemblance to Sailor Moon. She is fought in Stage 8 of 1P VS. mode.
Enemies:
Phoenix: Phoenix (フェニックス Fenikkusu) is a large mythological bird which serves as the first enemy of Panel de Pon, faced in Stage 9 of 1P VS. mode
Dragon: Dragon (ドラゴン full name Biigu Monsuta Doragon Big Monster Dragon) is a large dragon fought in Stage 10 of 1P VS. mode.
Sanatos: Sanatos (サナトス Thanatos) is the last boss of Normal 1P VS. mode and second-to-last of Hard and Harder VS. mode. He is only faced in those three difficulties, specifically in Stage 11. Sanatos is a large and muscular Satan-like demon with a large red cape, a mohawk hair cut, two large horns, and a beard on his chin. He is shown to carry a sheathed sword in Stage Clear mode.
Corderia: Corderia (コーデリア full name Great Goddess Corderia) is the final boss of 1P VS. mode and only faced when the player plays the Hard and Harder difficulties. She represents Stage 12. She is Lip's mother and poses as a villain in order to test Lip's abilities. She is a colossal woman with long brown hair.
Other games:
The table below shows the substitutions from Panel de Pon to Tetris Attack. Also shown are the new characters used in the GameCube version of Panel de Pon in Nintendo Puzzle Collection. These characters are the daughters of the original Panel de Pon cast, and they resemble their parents. Some of the characters are new; they are Kain, Lion, KickChop, Joker, Zilba (Ziruba), and Mingiri, Hindari, and Mangari. As well, more stages were added to the newer version of Panel de Pon.
| Tetris Attack | Panel de Pon | Nintendo Puzzle Collection: Panel de Pon |
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| Yoshi | Lip | Furil |
| Lakitu | Windy | Sophia |
| Bumpty | Sharbet | Think |
| Poochy | Thiana | Rinze |
| Flying Wiggler | Ruby | Pure |
| Froggy | Elias | Cecil |
| Gargantua Blargg | Flare | Rayea |
| Lunge Fish | Neris | Nathia |
| Raphael the Raven | Seren | Sala |
| Hookbill the Koopa | Phoenix | KickChop |
| Naval Piranha | Dragon | Joker |
| Kamek | Sanatos (Thanatos) | Sanatos (Thanatos) |
| Bowser | Corderia | Corderia |
| Kain | ||
| Lion | ||
| Ziruba (Zilba) | ||
| Mingiri, Hindari, and Mangari |
[edit] Options Menu
Whereas Tetris Attack has an Options menu accessible from the main menu wherein such options as listening to music, sounds, and voice clips from the game and setting up computer players can be selected, Panel de Pon has no such menu available.
[edit] Panel De Pon reference in the Super Smash Bros. series
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, there is an item called Lip's Stick, named after the Panel de Pon character replaced by Yoshi for Tetris Attack. Lip's Stick poisons the opponent that it contacts, as a flower is planted atop his or her head. One of Kirby's Stone powers also looks like Lip's Garbage Block. While some in-game graphics exclusive to the Japanese market were replaced with more recognizable items, Lip's Stick was left as-is with its trophy explaining its Japanese-only origin.
[edit] External links
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Panel de Pon • Tetris Attack • Pokémon Puzzle League • Nintendo Puzzle Collection |
