Pokémon Trozei!

Infobox VG
title = Pokémon Trozei!


developer = Genius Sonority
publisher = Nintendo
designer =
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composer = Koji Kondo
released = vgrelease|Japan|JPN|October 20, 2005
vgrelease|North America|NA|March 6, 2006
vgrelease|PAL Region|PAL|April 28, 2006
vgrelease|South Korea|KOR|May 17, 2007
genre = Puzzle
modes = Single player, multiplayer
ratings = CERO: A ESRB: Everyone
OFLC: G PEGI 3+
platforms = Nintendo DS
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nihongo|"Pokémon Trozei!"|ポケモントローゼ|Pokemon Torōze|also known as "Pokémon Link!" in Europe is a Pokémon-themed puzzle game for the Nintendo DS, much like "Pokémon Puzzle League" and "Pokémon Puzzle Challenge". It was released in Japan on October 20, 2005, in Europe on April 28, 2006, in South Korea on May 17, 2007, and in North America on March 6, 2006, where its marketing jingle was "Pokémon, Trooo-Zei! Four in a row and you're good to go!".

Gameplay

"Pokémon Trozei!" is a variation of Tetris-style gameplay. However, it also has gameplay similar to that of Yoshi's Cookie. The blocks are symbols shaped like various Pokémon. These blocks fall on to both screens; however, only the blocks on the bottom screen can be moved and matched. The player can move the blocks to the left and right, and the Pokémon that was moved off the edge of the screen returns to the opposite side of the screen. The blocks can also be moved downward, and the blocks on the bottom will fall to the top of the column. The blocks can be moved upwards, but will immediately fall back down if a match is not made. If four of the same Pokémon are in a row, a match is made and those Pokémon will disappear.

After a match of four is created, a "Trozei Chance" (or Link Chance) Icon will come up. When that happens, match-ups of three Pokémon are allowed for a short amount of time, normally two seconds. If a match of three is made during that time, match-ups of two Pokémon are allowed as well for as long as the player continues to make links every two seconds.

The Pokémon Ditto will also commonly appear as a block, and the player can use him as a "wild card" and match him with any other Pokémon, or even with multiple types simultaneously. Lining up Jammer balls (rocks) with Ditto is the only way to get rid of them during boss stages. While Ditto appears randomly during levels, one also drops when the player links up more Pokémon than needed (e.g. 5 instead of 4) in general play.

Phobos Battalion

The Phobos Battalion is the new enemy of this game. They have stolen countless Pokéballs in order to power up a secret weapon. Unlike most Pokémon villains, there are only generals in the game, no underlings. They have many secret storages and huge storage (that contains many more Pokémon than the secret storages) and six Phobos Mobile that contains a General that the player must defeat in order to move on.

They have a clever maneuver to attempt to confuse the player. In the game, the player has a number of Pokémon to Trozei. Phobos Battalion Generals use a Jammer Flash that only lets the Pokémon's shadows to be seen, add 50 more Pokémon to Trozei'd, and will use Jammer Balls, which look like rocks, to try to block the player's Trozei. The only way to get rid of the jammer balls is to line them up with Ditto.

Modes

Adventure Mode

"Pokémon Trozei!" has a story mode. It follows Lucy Fleetfoot as she attempts to take down the Phobos Battalion. The region that Trozei takes place in is unknown, although it could be "Trozei".

Lucy is working under Professor P, who is the top agent of SOL ("the Secret Operation League"). SOL is represented by a Solrock, while the Phobos Battalion is represented by a Lunatone.

There are four different types of stage in the Adventure mode: Research, Storage, Phobos Mobiles, and Mr. Who's Den.

The first of these, Research, acts much like a puzzle mode in that the goal is to clear the screen of Pokémon without any more falling onto the screen.

Players set out with two partners, Aipom and Manectric, and is equipped with the Trozei Beamer invented by Prof. P. After the player sneaks into the enemy's plane with a hang glider, he or she seeks out the Pokéballs and scans them with x-ray from his or her Beamer. The Beamer will transfer 4 (or 2 and 3 later) identical Pokémon back to Prof. P at SOL each time, and that explains the game play of lining up the Pokémon icons in the game fields.

The Storage levels, which come in two varieties (Secret Storage and Huge Storage), are "normal" levels where the goal is to link up the required number of Pokémon. The two types of Storage levels differ only in the number of Pokémon that must be linked.

The Phobos Mobiles are the "boss fights" where the player has to beat the Generals of the Phobos Battalion at games of Trozei. The phobos mobiles are train, jet, drill, sub and walker. During these games, the "opponent" do a variety of things. A plain white ball or rock can be inserted as a tile, which does not match with any Pokémon except Ditto. The screen can lose its color, so only the silhouettes of the Pokémon can be seen until a link is made. If the player is very close to winning, the "opponent" can add 50 to the number of Pokémon left needed to be linked.

Mr. Who's Den is a sort of "bonus level" where rare Pokémon appear more often, and the playfield is also two columns wider than normal, but the player will have to pay a Prize Coin to play there, and games are timed at two minutes (plus allowing the current Trozei Chance to end) rather than ending after a certain number of Pokémon have been cleared.After you complete the original adventure, there is the Trozei Hard Adventure.

Endless Mode

As the name suggests, this mode continues until the play area is completely filled with pieces. It is divided into many levels. The player can start on any level which is a multiple of 5 that he or she has cleared already, and before reaching level 25, he or she can start from 1, 5, 10, 15 or 20. The maximum level is greater than 85. The player completes a level when he or she clears the necessary amount of Pokémon. When the level changes, the common and the rare Pokémon also change.

Forever Mode

This mode is basically the same as endless but the player must trozei five pokemon first then four, etc. The trozeis go faster than endless and the setup is exactly the same as Mr. Who's den: it has the exact layout but the same rules as endless.

Pokédex

"Pokémon Trozei!" has a side mission of completing the National Dex. To get a Pokémon's entry, the player must Trozei a Pokémon in any mode.

External links

* [http://www.pokemontrozei.com Official Website]
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* [http://www.netjak.com/review.php/1127 Review of "Pokémon Trozei!" at Netjak]
* [http://ds.ign.com/articles/662/662465p1.html IGN's preview]