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My head is spinning a little, that's quite a complicated franchise even just for explaining a little minigame in it. Sounds like I'd be as bad at Pom! Pom! Party! as other falling block games that aren't Panel de Pon. But it is interesting that you can let the sides fill all the way up.

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They're at 19 years of releasing these things now, and the North American ones are all out of order, so it's a whole thing.

I'm much better at Pom! Pom! Party! than I am at Puyo Puyo, which I sometimes have trouble with because I can't move quite fast enough to take advantage of whatever future combo I built up. This variation on the genre can be real tough!

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Aug 7, 2023Liked by Marc Normandin

I have spent way way too much time playing Pom Pom party in both TOCS4 and my original bad English translation patch playthroughs of Ao. Falcom is way too good at making alluring distracting mini games (see also vantage masters)

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And now they've added a magical girl rail shooter to the mix, too

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