/v/ - Video Games

and just a friendly reminder, Puyo and Tetris are only as casual as you are.

Might be worth mentioning that Puyopuyo 20th Anniversary for the DS got a full English translation patch released recently.

>>16707994

I've been playing some Lumines Remastered recently after pirating it months ago but not touching it at all. It fucks with my head. I can't figure a good way to use

XY

YX

blocks and how aggressive the music is and how fast the game gets moving makes me feel claustrophobic and unable to think properly and make good decisions. I'm still giving it a try though.

>>16707994

Was Lumines Electronic Symphony any good?

>>16708118

Well the only reason I'm really playing it is that it happened to get a PC port. There are plenty of games I have emulated but it always pales in comparison to playing it on the original hardware, and I don't have the money and space for a bunch of consoles and shit.

Thanks for the image breakdown though. So far I'm stuck on Shake Your Body or however that song is called. Gonna see how far past it I can get now.

>>16708197

What’s that second pic? I’ve seen the character around but didn’t know she was from a puzzle game.

>>16708214

Japanese Tetris Attack Panel de Pon, the shapes should be a giveaway.

>>16708041

Shouldn't be especially hard to find if you know your resources, though it's not as if DS games are tough to patch either. Though it's worth noting the team put out two variants of the patch, one for use with the original ROM and another for the AP fixed ROM.

I am a Wetrix man.

>>16708311

>tetris based lewd dialogue

MUH

Wetrix is surprisingly addictive when you get going. Needs a new version, already.

It's Mr Pants gets points for presentation.

>>16708530

>If falling block type gameplay has problems then preset blocks magnifies those problems multiple times.

It really doesn't, standing above a big visible playing field of random blocks waiting to be manipulated is starkly different from your own range of focus being the next two or three pieces the game warns you are coming up next from the top. The tactical possibilities in the former are vastly greater than falling block-style games.

Lumines on Vita is super slick. I need to play it more.

Classic Tetris is good too.

>>16708694

I agree, the tetris attack/pokemon puzzle league static block formula is a much more tactical and engaging style of game that lets you make multiple decisions based on your blocks. Setting up a long chain or spamming small 4-5 blocks are both legitimate strategies and in multiplayer scenarios you sometimes need a mixture of both to effectively beat your opponent. It's a test of pattern recognition, tactics and speed.

>>16712031

Why would you waste your time on that crap when PuyoVS exists?

>>16708694

See, even in your APNGs you can't hide how much of the game is reactionary. There is very little build planning because the RNG gives you the pieces where it wants them to go instead of you receiving the pieces and being able to decide for yourself where they go. I also know that you can't show off multiplayer because garbage is so useless that in a match between two highly skilled players it becomes meaningless and the matches drag on until one player becomes too tired to play any longer.

>>16713504

Too bad Puzzle Fighter is awfully flawed

>hopelessly imbalanced (Ken has best gem pattern, followed by Donovan. Chun Li and Ryu are worse than motherfucking Dan, who gets a very useful damage boost)

X' mode in updated re-releases doesn't quite fix things (counter gem patterns are not very relevant in multiplayer, where battles usually end in 1 chain, see next point)

>one-sided curbstomps: attacking player has crushing advantage over defending player, who has halved chain power

>the fucking unskippable diamond ruins everything

>the diamond bug (turn diamond in tight space right before lock delay runs out and it will ignore the damage penalty)

I'm also not too sure about the gem distribution algorithm, but I think it's awful that you can go through 10 pairs without seeing a single crash gem, especially considering you only have 1 preview.

>>16712805

Is Revenge of the Plague Lord still stuck on X-Box 360's marketplace?

>>16713577

>There is very little build planning because the RNG gives you the pieces where it wants them to go instead of you receiving the pieces and being able to decide for yourself where they go.

The planning is very much there, it just happens in a more dynamic context because you're able to alter the plan in the middle of a chain, and with less wait between the planning and execution phases.

And no, there actually is a huge degree of fast puzzle-solving involved at high-level puzzle league play. As >>16712017 mentioned, merely throwing giant 13x garbage blocks one after the other may look impressive but it's not how you win matches against decent players. Really good players instead focus on 1) deluging their opponent with varying degrees of 2x-4x blocks and small combos because those are much harder to react to, and 2) keeping the garbage near the top of their own screen in order to minimize time spent converting garbage to blocks. Aggressive play in puzzle league is a bit of a double-edged sword–by playing more risky on your own column you make things harder for your opponent.

I will say I don't think puzzle league multiplayer is the final word in competitive puzzle games, but it is at least better than the lame garbage in most falling-block puzzlers that are based on a formula never designed to have anything to do with more than one player. Most of them have a 'snowball' problem where matches are decided early on because the falling garbage sets up a feedback loop where early garbage makes the receiving player need to clean it up before developing their own chains while the sending player gets a bunch of a free time to set up even bigger garbage attacks.

>>16714011

Dunno, I never heard of that expansion before your comment. Only played the PS2, DS and PSP versions.

>>16712711

Because I think Ai is cute, and I'm starting to get bored of stock nullpomino

>>16712805

What do you think about Puzzle Quest 2? I thought it fucking sucked. Took away almost everything that made the original so great.

>>16713988

Eh. Balance is overrated.

Soldam deserves more love

>>16714813

>dat ass

I'd give it some love.

>>16707958

I'm more of a Mole Mania or Kickle Cubicle kind of guy.

I used to play Tetris so much that I could play the same game for 2 hours.

So Tetris.

>>16708019

Why would I need a translation for a Puyopuyo game?

>>16713504

Is there a decent port of this?

>>16717231

20th has a shitload of modes that aren't readily apparent what they are just by icon alone.

Puzzle Quest with the heroes mod

>see puzzie vidya

>think thread will be about obscure europ lewd games

Well this was a letdown

is it weird that i like puyopuyo more but i'm way worse at it than i am at tetris

I like Tetris/Puyo and all but they are not puzzle games. Actual puzzles are the ones found in Tetris 2 + Bombliss or Pac-Attack.