Sometimes I forget just how good Game Boy Color games can look and sound, playing this really makes me hope Nintendo adds GBC games to Nintendo Switch Online someday. Another great entry in this series, and like I said, some really great pixel art and arrangements of different Pokemon songs. Game plays as well as it should, and has a lot of neat unlockables to help with re-playability.

Something I'm kind of conflicted on is the way Challenge mode works. It's your standard Panel de Pon single player mode where you go up against one A.I opponent after the other, but in this game the A.I doesn't have their own puzzle board. Instead, they have a health bar, and getting chains or combos will take off health. Instead of seeing them get combos, the opponent will just randomly be like "hey I just got a 5 chain, no you can't see it, die" and you have to deal with any garbage being sent. It's an interesting twist on the usual formula, and it honestly is a neat way to bypass the limitations of the GBC, but I can't help but feel a little cheated when the opponent just gives me some insane garbage out of nowhere. But like I said, it's an interesting version of this mode.

Overall I would have loved to have owned this back in the day, it's the perfect portable version of this game for the time, and kind of makes the N64 Pokemon Puzzle League look like joke with how clean and lovely the presentation is here.