A top-of-the-line puzzle game to this day.

The spritework is lush and gorgeous, bringing Lip and friends' fairy world to life in style. The music is memorable and charming. And of course, the gameplay: it's a brilliantly intuitive tile-matching game with a very precise and gradual difficulty curve. It gets the "low skill floor, high skill ceiling" angle totally right while being consistently encouraging to the player.

Seriously, you should play this game if you haven't. You can play the game in Japanese on NSO, and there's also a translation patch out there.

Unlike Puzzle League, i find panel depon to be charming even if i can't read any of it.

The difficulty is a lot more balanced and while child me wouldve scoffed at it, adult me finds it endlessly addictive.

i only wish you could flip panels vertically as well as horizontally...