Pokémon Trozei!

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Pokémon Trozei!

Developer(s)	Genius Sonority
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release date(s)	October 20, 2005 (JP) March 6, 2006 (NA) April 28, 2006 (EU)
Genre(s)	Puzzle
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: E OFLC: G
Platform(s)	Nintendo DS

Pokémon Trozei! (ポケモントローゼ, Pokemon Torōze^?, also known as Pokémon Link! in Europe) is a Pokémon-themed puzzle game for the Nintendo DS, much like Pokémon Puzzle League and Pokémon Puzzle Challenge. It was released in Japan on October 20, 2005, and in North America on March 6, 2006, where its marketing jingle was "Pokémon, Trooo-Zei! Four in a row and you're good to go!".

1 Gameplay
2 Adventure Mode
- 2.1 Phobos Battalion
3 Endless Mode
4 Pokédex
5 External links

[edit] Gameplay

Pokémon Trozei! (Pokémon Link! in Europe) is a variation of Tetris-style gameplay. However, it also has gameplay similar to that of Yoshi's Cookie. The blocks are symbols shaped like various Pokémon. These blocks fall on to both screens; however, only the blocks on the bottom screen can be moved and matched. The player can move the blocks to the left and right, and the Pokémon that was moved off the edge of the screen returns to the opposite side of the screen. The blocks can also be moved downward, and the blocks on the bottom will fall to the top of the column. The blocks can be moved upwards, but will immediately fall back down if a match is not made. If four of the same Pokémon are in a row, a match is made and those Pokémon will disappear.

After a match of four is created, a Trozei Chance (or Link Chance) Icon will come up. When that happens, match-ups of three Pokémon are allowed for a short amount of time, normally two seconds. If a match of three is made during that time, match-ups of two Pokémon are allowed as well for as long as the player continues to make links every two seconds.

The Pokémon Ditto will also commonly appear as a block, and the player can use him as a "wild card" and match him with any other Pokémon, or even with multiple types simultaneously. Lining up Jammer balls (rocks) with Ditto is the only way to get rid of them during boss stages. While Ditto appears randomly during levels, one also drops when the player links up more Pokémon than needed (e.g. 5 instead of 4) in general play.

[edit] Adventure Mode

Pokémon Trozei! has a story mode. It follows Lucy Fleetfoot as she attempts to take down the Phobos Battalion. The region that Trozei takes place in is unknown, although it could be "Trozei".

Lucy is working under Professor P, who is the top agent of SOL (the Secret Operation League). SOL is represented by a Solrock, while the Phobos Battalion is represented by a Lunatone.

There are four different types of stage in the Adventure mode: Research, Storage, Phobos Mobiles, and Mr. Who's Den.

The first of these, Research, acts much like a puzzle mode in that the goal is to clear the screen of Pokémon without any more falling onto the screen.

Players set out with two partners, Aipom and Manectric, and is equipped with the Trozei Beamer invented by Prof. P. After the player sneaks into the enemy's plane with a hang glider, he or she seeks out the Pokéballs and scans them with x-ray from his or her Beamer. The Beamer will transfer 4 (or 2 and 3 later) identical Pokémon back to Prof. P at SOL each time, and that explains the game play of lining up the Pokémon icons in the game fields.

The Storage levels, which come in two varieties (Secret Storage and Huge Storage), are "normal" levels where the goal is to link up the required number of Pokémon. The two types of Storage levels differ only in the number of Pokémon that must be linked.

The Phobos Mobiles are the "boss fights" where the player has to beat the Generals of the Phobos Battalion at games of Trozei. The phobos mobiles are train, jet, drill, sub and walker. During these games, the "opponent" do a variety of things. A plain white ball or rock can be inserted as a tile, which does not match with any Pokémon except Ditto. The screen can lose its color, so only the silhouettes of the Pokémon can be seen until a link is made. If the player is very close to winning, the "opponent" can add 50 to the number of Pokémon left needed to be linked.

Mr. Who's Den is a sort of "bonus level" where rare Pokémon appear more often, and the playfield is also two columns wider than normal, but the player will have to pay a Prize Coin to play there, and games are timed at two minutes (plus allowing the current Trozei Chance to end) rather than ending after a certain number of Pokémon have been cleared.

[edit] Phobos Battalion

The Phobos Battalion Generals will try to interrupt game play by throwing in Jammer Balls to interrupt the player's Pokémon icons (which he or she can clear by lining them up with Ditto), or by turning all the player's icons into shadows, etc.

General Buzz
General Avery
General Aquarella
General Grock
General Boolum

[edit] Endless Mode

As the name suggests, this mode continues until the play area is completely filled with pieces. It is divided into many levels. The player can start on any level which is a multiple of 5 that he or she has cleared already, and before reaching level 25, he or she can start from 1, 5, 10, 15 or 20. The maximum level is greater than 85. The player completes a level when he or she clears the necessary amount of Pokémon. When the level changes, the common and the rare Pokémon also change.

[edit] Pokédex

Pokémon Trozei! has a side mission of completing the National Dex. To get a Pokémon's entry, the player must Trozei a Pokémon in any mode.

Legendary Pokémon are very rare, but there is a way to make finding them easier. By using Espionage Mode, it is possible to link up with a player who has seen a Pokémon missing from the first player's Pokédex. Professor P will then say that the Phobos Army has the Pokémon in the same place that the second player found it, and the Pokémon can now be found.

Playing in Mr. Who's stage can also increase the chance of finding rare Pokémon.