Pokemon Trozei puzzles the DS @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on December 19, 2005

News: Another Pokemon puzzle game, now with indecipherable instructions!

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I used to understand all sorts of arcane video game instructions. Made up words, words used differently, stuff that spun the head of your average adult.

But now I'm the adult and I can't make sense of what Nintendo's latest Pokemon offering, Pokemon Trozei for the DS, is all about.

Developed by Genius Sonority (makers of Pokemon XD) and scheduled for release on March 6, Pokemon Trozei is another puzzle game set in the Pokemon universe. Using the stylus, players are encouraged to line up Pokemon so that four of the same Pokemon are all in a horizontal or vertical row. This is a "Trozei" and adds the match to a Trozei List.

After scoring a Trozei you can create chains of three and then two Pokemon to clear pieces faster. But like all puzzle games of this type, if your stack hits the top of the screen, it's game over man.

Trozei features two single-player modes, a 2-player battle mode and a 2-player co-op mode. And like any good Pokemon game, players can capture Pokemon and then go into Espionage Mode and trade rare Pokemon with other Pokemon Trozei owners.

But none of that really explains how you play the game. Do the Pokemon drop from the sky? Do you have to switch Pokemon like a big game of Bejeweled? Or maybe it's something else entirely?

I'm sure it'll all make sense when it's released. But for now, I'm baffled.

But check out the first five screens, maybe it'll make it easier to understand.