Reviews from

in the past


Fun enough to where you understand why it was added as a boss in Sonic Mania, but I'd rather just play the Mean Bean Machine bonus mode in that game than play this one.

its puyo puyo but with an aosth skin. the music is cool, the sprites look great, but god the difficulty spike is insane, even on easy and normal mode. how ive managed to beat this game so many times as a kid, i'll never know

frustratingly both really fun and too difficult and luck dependent for me to really get into. the game does a REALLY good job at making you want to beat it, though, by making the enemy robots look like the stupidest fucking assholes. make no mistake: they fucked your girlfriend AND your mother and have FULL intentions of continuing to do so. you just NEED to destroy them so bad and every time you lose they snicker right at your face and would probably start teabagging you if this was a different kind of game.
yellow bean looks like the nerd emoji

i did not think the funny ytp robotnik pingas game would be that hard oh my god


I'm glad we're out of the "Nintendo and Sega" reskinning their old games

Made entirely obsolete by basically any subsequent Puyo Puyo game. Without offset or other key mechanics that came to the series later (such as double tapping rotate to flip your puyos even if they don't have room to rotate), victory in the arcade mode becomes very dependent on luck.
I have too strong feelings about American Sega's apparent need during the 90s to project their own (entirely ill-defined) fan-fictionesque personality, worldbuilding, and character designs onto Sonic, and while this game serves as a key example of that, that feels like a rant ill-suited for a review of the game itself.

Tragic that the only game to feature Scratch and Grounder is a puyo puyo clone

how is the entire game of this still not better than the Mean Bean boss in Sonic Mania

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is Sega of America's western answer to Puyo Puyo. It's got a fun style with the AOSTH Eggman design and robots. The Game Gear version is funny, but both are good ways to experience Puyo Puyo. The Game Gear version has the Puyo actually look like beans too and that's a cool hardware limitation affect.

And what happened to me? Well in Green Hill Zone they say, that the player's respect for Puyo Puyo players grew three sizes that day.

i just managed to convince my brother to stop playing Kirby's Avalanche (as retold here ) after 3 hours. we decided to play Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine because it had a funny name. one could only imagine my horror and my brothers hysterical joy when we realised Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Kirby's Avalanche are both the exact same recoloured Puyo Puyo game but for for Genesis instead of SNES. i cant escape it.

Alright, but no reason to really play this when Puyo Puyo 2 exists. Maybe if you REALLY like funny robots and/or you really hate stuff with anime artstyles for some asinine reason, sure, play this instead.

Any game with Scratch in it gets an automatic 10/10 from me~

robotnik should shove the machine up his ass

It sure is a blob game. The game's music and single background is slightly more repetitive than Puyo's but the badniks are funny and make some Good Faces, so it all balances out, I guess.

VS. mode still goes hard.

my brother and i spent so much time in this game as kids. we had it on a plug n play, i can never get those days back.

puyo puyo is very good. this is puyo puyo with a goofy sonic skin

This is Puyo 1 with Sonic Characters. Sonic Characters have less charm than Puyo ones. sorry guys. Go pick up a real game like Puyo 2

the Beans weren't mean. 0/10.

What’s with all the Puyo Puyo clones?


A puyo puyo game with a reskin based on the adventure of sonic the hedgehog cartoon. It is a great vs puzzle game with a very high skill cap. Probably my favorite puzzle game series of all time. This isn't the best version of puyo puyo out there, but it is still one of the puzzle games on the genesis.

it's Puyo Puyo but with an Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog coat of paint, I like both of these things

This game is definitely funny because of its localization turning it into a meme bean machine, but the game under the hood is a very barebones puyo game. It's a reskin of puyo 1, which means no offsetting and no double rotation. Get a 5-chain and win, GG EZ