Puzzles & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition

PUZZLES & DRAGONS: SUPER MARIO BROS. EDITION

Puzzles & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition falls into a similar vein as Yakuman DS and the Itadaki Street games, being a game from an entirely separate series that has its own history and unique gameplay, that happens to feature Mario characters this time around. Basically the gameplay is a bit of a mix of Bejeweled-style gameplay on one screen with a collected fantasy army doing battle on the second screen. Line up three of a kind on the "Bejeweled" side, and it with boost some of your army to give them an advantage over the other team. We'll get more into it the day we cover the actual series in more detail.

For now, let's just cover what we can. Rather than the standard roster of characters and creatures the Puzzles & Dragons series normally comes with, most of those are traded out with Mario characters. These include seventeen different forms of Mario (all based on power-ups), seventeen forms of Luigi (same), Toad, Yoshi, Bowser, Peach, and Rosalina (all with various color swaps). As for the enemies, we have several forms of Goomba, several forms of Koopa Troopa and Paratroopa, Dry Bones, Hammer, Boomerang, Fire, Ice, and Sledge Bros, several forms of Buzzy Beetle, Spinies, Lakitus, Bullet Bills, Cheep Cheeps, Bloopers, Piranha Plants, Petey Piranha, Bob-Ombs, Chain Chomps, Flame Chomps, several Coin Coffers, Boos, King Boo, Thwomps, Whomps, Wigglers, Magikoopas, and Boom Boom, with a few combinations and mixes and matches in between. The seven Koopalings and Bowser Jr. also act as bosses in the game. Most of these don't have a lot of gameplay, and what they do have is heavily influenced by Puzzles & Dragons gameplay, so we can't really draw too much from that.

As for stages, the game plays out across eight generic Mario biomes: a grassland world, a ghost world, a desert world, a seaside world, a jungle world, a sky world, a lava world, and an underground world. Several items also appear, mostly to help out your army, including Mushrooms, Poison Mushrooms, Fire Flowers, Ice Flowers, Super Leaves, Boo Mushrooms, P-Wings, Super Stars, Spiky Shells, Gold Mushrooms, Coins, 1-Up Mushrooms, and lots of character coins, most of which give various boosts and power up different characters.

Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

Mario: hammer, bombs, drop drum, golden hammer, pink (enemy), blue (block), yellow (metal plate), green (brick), Kanbank, throw Koopa shells, chisel, pinball, dance

Builder Mario: item blocks, arrow signs, brick blocks, rotating blocks, bridges, burners, cannons, cloud blocks, coins, conveyor belts, donut blocks, fire bars, grinders, hidden blocks, ice blocks, lifts, mushroom platforms, note blocks, one-way walls, P switches, pipes, POW blocks, spike traps, tracks, trampolines, vines, warp doors, 1-Up Mushrooms, Fire Flowers, Super Leaves, Cape Feathers, Propeller Mushrooms, Super Mushrooms, Weird Mushrooms, Super Stars, Clown Car, Buzzy Beetle and Spiny Shells, Big Mushrooms, Mystery Mushrooms, Master Sword, Superball Flowers, Super Bell, Super Hammer, SMB2 Mushroom, Frog Suit, Super Acorn, Boomerang Flower, Rotten Mushroom, Cannon Box, Propeller Box, Goomba Mask, Bullet Bill Mask, reset rocket, companion characters

Luigi: same, dance

Princess Peach

Bowser, dance

Foreman Spike: push, best option for a gimmick character, see all above

Wario: chisel, dance

Toad

Yoshi

Donkey Kong

Daisy

Waluigi: dance, steal music keys

Birdo

Diddy Kong

Toadette

Toadsworth

Bowser Jr.

Petey Piranha

Koopa Troopa

Goomba

Shy Guy

Boo

Cheep Cheep

Bob-Omb

Lakitu

Pokey

Chain Chomp

Monty Mole

Ukiki

Eggplant Man: run around

Gotchawrench: run around

Slime

Platypunk

Bianca

Angelo

Jessica

Alena

Kiryl

Carver

Pudding/Princessa

Yangus

Dragonlord

Stella

Patty

Onigiri

Onnanoko

Oyazi

Dogu

Tutankoopa: float, spell

Stages:

Wrecking Crew

High Rise Building

Mario Paint

Clash House Tower

Fun Fair

Frosty Frontier

Grassy Greens

Shifting Sands

Fiery Stage

Truffle Towers

SS Brass

Corkscrew Hotel

Wario Carnival

Snowy Peak

Bowser's Castle

Yoshi's Island

Bowser's Castle

Mario Stadium

Mario Circuit

Peach's Castle

Delfino Plaza

Mushroom Kingdom

Castle Trodain

Mt. Magmageddon

Colossus

Ghost Ship

Slimenia

Alefgard

Robbin' Hood Ruins

Starship Mario

Good Egg Galaxy

Observatory

Alltrades Abbey

Mario Maker (I like the way Smash did it)

Mario Maker 2

Puzzles & Dragons

Items:

Hammers

Bombs

Drums

Blocks

Shells

Mahjong Tiles

Pinball Machine

Music Keys

1-Up Mushrooms

Fire Flowers

Super Leaves

Cape Feathers

Propeller Mushrooms

Super Mushrooms

Weird Mushrooms

Super Stars

Clown Car

Buzzy Beetle and Spiny Shells

Big Mushrooms

Mystery Mushrooms

Master Sword

Superball Flowers

Super Bell

Super Hammer

SMB2 Mushroom

Frog Suit

Super Acorn

Boomerang Flower

Rotten Mushroom

Cannon Box

Propeller Box

Goomba Mask

Bullet Bill Mask

Thanks for reading! Next up, let's cover Super Mario Run!