Puyo Puyo without the soul
Puyo Puyo with a Sonic related name slapped on it. That weird decision aside, the tile matching in Puyo Puyo is still excellent and just as fun in this game, even if it does seem like a bit of a cynical marketing exercise.
It's okay. Much better than Tetris!
It's Puyo Puyo, which is cool!
It's western Sonic, which is not cool!
Honestly, if I'm gonna play Puyo, I'll just play actual Puyo with the cute girls and whatnot. But checking this out was worth it for this fucking face, and nothing else.
It's western Sonic, which is not cool!
Honestly, if I'm gonna play Puyo, I'll just play actual Puyo with the cute girls and whatnot. But checking this out was worth it for this fucking face, and nothing else.
A 'Puyo Puyo' reskin that replaces the actually interesting characters with the no-name losers from 'The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.' It's cool that we at least got some version of the game but I'd rather have had the version with a villain whose name upsets pearl-clutchers.
very quirky puyo puyo type game
it serves its purpose i just wish there were more cute little anime girls to fawn over. anyone who prefers this to puyo puyo is surely some sort of deviant.
One of the games that pushed me to look more into the puyo puyo games, I have a lot of fond memories playing this game in my childhood on a plug n play console. Definitely worth playing nowadays.
Fun little puzzle game, felt like Sega's attempt at Dr. Mario. Only rented it a couple times from the video store, and revisited for a bit on a Sega Classics collection on Switch. Solid enough, but gets old a little quick; the homage in Sonic Mania was cute though
Love how the difficulty in the later levels is just like, hope the CPU is complete dogwater and doesn't get a chain over 2 because there's 0 possible planning time to do anything too cute (not that I could)
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is an 'Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'-themed reskin of Japanese falling block puzzle game Puyo Puyo and it's a heck of a good time.
The premise of Mean Bean is simple but addictive. Pairs of beans fall from the top of the screen and you have to join them together in batches of four or more to pop them off your board. When you do, it makes a rock appear on your opponents board so by clearing your own board you're simultaneously disrupting your opponents. Crucially, you can build your board up patiently and then get rid of an epic amount of beans in a chain combo, which in turn, creates an avalanche of rocks on your opponents board.
This is the central risk reward matrix at the heart of Mean Bean's gameplay and adds a delectable layer of tension. Do you build up a monstrous combo and leave yourself vulnerable to enemy rocks or do you try to overwhelm your opponent with a continual string of smaller combos?
It's a formula that's easy to grasp but takes time to master and the single-player mode does a good job of testing out your skills. I always found Mean Bean's single-player mode hit a sweet-spot with it's difficulty curve. Every robotic opponent has a distinct playstyle but they get progressively tougher to beat, pushing you to continually blast through your own perceived skill ceiling in an effort to get further. It's the type of game I find endlessly replayable and satisfying to best.
For what it's worth, I enjoy Mean Bean over the original Puyo Puyo because of it's AOSTH inspiration. It's so much fun to see the goofy enemy portraits change from smug grins to desperate, sweating faces when you turn the tide in your favour. The tense Kraftwerk-inspired music and excellent use of well-placed sound effects (an exuberant YIPEE sounds off whenever you pop a quad of beans) only add to the satisfaction when you've got Dr. Robotnik or one of his lackeys on the ropes.
The premise of Mean Bean is simple but addictive. Pairs of beans fall from the top of the screen and you have to join them together in batches of four or more to pop them off your board. When you do, it makes a rock appear on your opponents board so by clearing your own board you're simultaneously disrupting your opponents. Crucially, you can build your board up patiently and then get rid of an epic amount of beans in a chain combo, which in turn, creates an avalanche of rocks on your opponents board.
This is the central risk reward matrix at the heart of Mean Bean's gameplay and adds a delectable layer of tension. Do you build up a monstrous combo and leave yourself vulnerable to enemy rocks or do you try to overwhelm your opponent with a continual string of smaller combos?
It's a formula that's easy to grasp but takes time to master and the single-player mode does a good job of testing out your skills. I always found Mean Bean's single-player mode hit a sweet-spot with it's difficulty curve. Every robotic opponent has a distinct playstyle but they get progressively tougher to beat, pushing you to continually blast through your own perceived skill ceiling in an effort to get further. It's the type of game I find endlessly replayable and satisfying to best.
For what it's worth, I enjoy Mean Bean over the original Puyo Puyo because of it's AOSTH inspiration. It's so much fun to see the goofy enemy portraits change from smug grins to desperate, sweating faces when you turn the tide in your favour. The tense Kraftwerk-inspired music and excellent use of well-placed sound effects (an exuberant YIPEE sounds off whenever you pop a quad of beans) only add to the satisfaction when you've got Dr. Robotnik or one of his lackeys on the ropes.
I am a massive Sonic fan, and to this day this game is one of the best ones in terms of gameplay. Which is a tad embarrassing considering this is a reskin of a Puyo Puyo game...
Puyo Puyo but with Robotnik and Genesisey/Megadrivey as hell.
Not a bad puzzle game and quite fun, however their is better ones out their.
Basically puyo-puyo under another name. I like puyo-puyo, but i also suck balls at it. I couldn't even get past stage 3 on easy :(
Yeah, Puyo is pretty good.
this is my candy crush
Snooping around like always right?
funny meme yes i know but it's bad for no other reason than it's use of the puyo puyo 1 ruleset which makes it near unplayable for anyone used to newer puyo games
"Hey man, I'm trying to figure out what Sonic Games I should actually play" - me
"Dude.. you gotta play Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine!" - literally none of my friends
"What's that?"
"It's Puyo Puyo"
I go to the store and look at Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. "It's Puyo Puyo" says the advertisement. I flip the box over. It's Puyo Puyo. I tear the cover off. It's Puyo Puyo on that cartridge alright. My friend stops me at the door "What's that you got there?". It's Puyo Puyo.
I've played this game. It's Puyo Puyo.
"Dude.. you gotta play Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine!" - literally none of my friends
"What's that?"
"It's Puyo Puyo"
I go to the store and look at Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. "It's Puyo Puyo" says the advertisement. I flip the box over. It's Puyo Puyo. I tear the cover off. It's Puyo Puyo on that cartridge alright. My friend stops me at the door "What's that you got there?". It's Puyo Puyo.
I've played this game. It's Puyo Puyo.
My first Puyo Puyo game. Stressful, yet addictive. I've played worse cartoon tie-in games.
it's just puyo puyo, but with a far less appealing packaging to me
pretty strange game
Not my vibe
Tragic that the only game to feature Scratch and Grounder is a puyo puyo clone
It's fun for a few minutes... I mean it's literally just puyo puyo what else can I really say?
tetris so que lixo
o momento mais iconico desse jogo e quando no sonic mania em 2017 fez uma referencia a esse lixo
o momento mais iconico desse jogo e quando no sonic mania em 2017 fez uma referencia a esse lixo
It's puyo but horribly ugly.
Mean beans
Its puyo puyo, cmon.