Gotta Trozei 'em all! Solid puzzle game
...The story mode kicks off with some extremely easy tutorial levels, appears to be story-driven, it has you assuming the role of a young female tasked with aiding a professor [in order to help him rescue pokemon from an unscrupulous organization that steals pokemon and does evil things with them. [Sound familier?]
Truth is, the story is as irrelevant as it is intelligible to us at this point, because at the end of the day this is a puzzle game, and regardless of any thrilling twists and turns in its plot, you'll still be spending the bulk of your time arranging pictures of Pikachu and friends into lines of four...
...You'll deal with the Pokemon that are continuously falling from the top of the upper screen down to the touch screen--not by moving them as they fall, but by rearranging them once they've landed. You'll rearrange the neatly ordered Pokemon pile by placing the stylus onto the Pokemon you want to move and then dragging it either vertically or horizontally, at which point the whole row or column will move to accommodate the Pokemon's new position. Any Pokemon that are dragged off the bottom of the touch screen as a result of your rearranging will fall from the top screen again...
...your primary goal in Pokemon Trozei is to arrange pictures of the same Pokemon into lines of four or five; but the game isn't quite as simplistic as it sounds. After successfully making a line of four or five, those Pokemon will disappear, and those remaining on the screen will be rearranged as a result. At this point, lines of three or more matching Pokemon will disappear, and will be followed by lines of just two. Spectacular-looking combos, then, aren't difficult to achieve, although it's rarely a result of genius planning.
That pretty much sums up what the game is and how to play, but let me add something else to that: Boss Battles are HARD! Sometimes, they will turn out the lights forcing you to trozei pokemon just by using the sillouttes of their faces, and sometimes they will throw junk ("Jammer Balls") into your screen which can't be trozei'ed the normal way, you must get three dittos to make a row of four to get them to disappear..they will sometimes throw in rare pokemon and give you only a short while to figure out how to trozei them to "catch them" (Yeah, same old, same old..gotta catch 'em all..and all that!) I almost lost my first boss battle, because pokemon began falling at breakneck sppeds, along with jammer balls, and I had a hard time making anybody trozei! (What's with the fluctuating difficulty..main game is easy, but boss battles are considerably harder!)
But, even if you hate pokemon, this game is a great puzzler..the tutorial is optional ("called labs" )and you can play them all you want for additional coins (used to unlock bonus stages with even rarer pokemon) or skip them altogether if you just want to get throught the game..only the very first tutorial is mandatory for getting through the game.
Want to try before you buy? There is a great flash tutorial the trozei website (you can get there from nintendo's website) that demos how to play; it's actually the first few tutorial "labs" you do in the game! How to trozei, how to make combos, why ditto is so important (he's sorta the "wild card"..if you have three like pokemon and a ditto, it will trozei them as if they were four like pokemon!)
I'm having a blast with the game! Aside from the aforementioned "Adventure Mode" there is also an "Endless mode" (trozei until you get a game over) and serveral multiplayer modes. You can even do download play with the game so all your friends can see what the hype is all about! The more you play, the more rare pokemon you unlock, and the more people you play with, you can unlock even more rare pokemon. I love pokemon and I love puzzles, so the idea of using a puzzle game to "catch 'em all (again) feels fresh and new..although this game is not for everyone!