If you're at all familiar with Kirby's Avalanche, Puyo Pop, or Candy Crisis, Mean Bean Machine won't offer you anything that you haven't already played before. But despite being a fairly generic puzzler (it's all about falling blocks, people - we've all been there) there's a lot of fun to be had for anyone who's enjoyed the simple pleasures of games like Tetris and Lumines. The premise is simple - you match four little falling blobs of the same color to make them disappear. The catch? The game is always a two player competition, whether against a friend or the CPU. Every time your opponent clears a certain number of blobs a number of unmovable pieces fall into your playing field. It's simple, it's addictive, it's challenging - it's everything you want from a good puzzler. The music and colorful robotic opponents that you'll face make for a delightful experience.

Like any puzzler though, you'll only find yourself playing this for so long until it falls into the "I need something I can play for 15 minutes and walk away from/I need something I can school my little brother in" categories. Still, if you enjoy a good falling block puzzle and you've somehow never played one of the many incarnations of Puyo Pop out there, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is well worth your hard earned cash.

3 out of 5

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