Nintendo Puzzle Collection: Difference between revisions

|platforms=[[Nintendo GameCube]]

|media={{media|gcn=1}}

}}

''Nintendo Puzzle Collection'' was tentatively titled ''Masterpiece Puzzle Collection'' in development,<ref>Gaban, Desmond (November 13, 2002). [https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/8014/gamecube-masterpiece-puzzle-collection-revealed "Gamecube Masterpiece Puzzle Collection revealed"]. ''Nintendo World Report''. Retrieved February 28, 2012.</ref> and it was planned to have a release outside Japan.<ref>IGN (May 14, 2003). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NbVv0xHTUQ "Nintendo Puzzle Collection E3 2003 Trailer"]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved August 28, 2018.</ref> However, the English localized version, despite being given an E rating by the {{wp|Entertainment Software Rating Board|ESRB}},<ref>ESRB. [https://www.esrb.org/ratings/9238/Nintendo+Puzzle+Collection/ Nintendo Puzzle Collection]. ''Entertainment Software Rating Board''. Retrieved November 13, 2018.</ref> ended up being canceled.

==Story and gameplay==

The ''Dr. Mario 64'' port offers the same gameplay as the original [[Nintendo 64]] version.

The ''Panel de Pon'' game is a sequel to the [[Super Famicom]] original with additional modes, a new set of characters, and more stages. Feature-wise, it is similar to ''[[bulbapedia:Pokémon Puzzle League|Pokémon Puzzle League]]'', including the same set of puzzles.

Backgrounds in Action Mode use background tilesets from stages of ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''. Each round has different confetti when the player clears a stage.

*Round 9: Mario uses matches to light a fuse for fireworks and takes cover. A green fireball is shot out from the cannon and turns into several Yoshi Cookies. A second fireball is shot out, and Bowser, while on a cloud, catches the cookies it turns into with a net.

*Round 10: Mario sees a Yoshi Cookie roll along the ground and chases it, but he gets distracted by a shooting star in the distance. Mario then brings a telescope and looks at the sky through it. In first-person perspective, another shooting star appears, which turns out to be a Yoshi Cookie and gets closer and closer until it breaks through the lens of the telescope. Mario falls to the ground, and the small cookie pops out from the telescope's eyepiece into Mario's hands.   

The first five stages offer different non-playable opponents depending on the difficulty. All of the non-playable opponents in the story mode appear in ''[[Super Mario World]]'', with the exception of [[Blooper]] and [[Hammer Bro]].

Regardless of the difficulty, the final two stages offer the same non-playable opponents, though their skill differs between each difficulty. Stage 6 lets the player face off against [[Thwomp]], followed by [[Kamek]]. Stage 7 is a best-three-out-of-five match against Bowser himself.

*[[Cheep Cheep]]

*[[Koopa Paratroopa]]

*[[Spiny]]

*[[Koopa Troopa]]

*[[Blooper]]

*[[Piranha Plant]]

*[[Buzzy Beetle]]

*[[Rip Van Fish]]

==Staff==

{{main|List of Nintendo Puzzle Collection staff}}

==Quotes==

===Bowser===

*「グゴゴゴゴゴゴ・・・・・ おのれ〜! ゆるさんぞ〜! マリオ〜!」

*「よくも わがはいの かわいい ぶかたちを いじめてくれたな・・」

*「グワハハハ! え〜い やかましい! とちれるほうがわるいのだ!」

*「さあ おしやべりはここまでだ! やちれた ぶかたちのぶんまで ばいにして かえしてくれる!」

*「クツ・・こ・・この わがはい・・が まける・・な・・んて・・・」

*「ウデをあげたな・・マリオよだが・・わがはいは・・なんどでもふっかつする・・」

*「わがはいは・・おまえに・・いじわる するの・・が・・いきがい・・なのだ・・グ・・グハハハ」

*「その・・ときまで・・たのしみに しているが・・よい・・グハ・・グワハハハハハ・・・」

==Gallery==

<gallery>

NintendoPuzzleCollection-YoshiArtwork.jpg|''Yoshi no Cookie'' artwork

Yoshi's cookie.jpg|''Yoshi no Cookie'' artwork

Gcn puzzle-collection icon.gif|Logo for the unreleased English version, under the name ''Puzzle Collection''

</gallery>

*The version of ''Panel de Pon'' featured was planned for the [[Nintendo 64]] under the title of ''Panel de Pon 64'', but was canceled for the system. It was retooled in the west as ''[[bulbapedia:Pokémon Puzzle League|Pokémon Puzzle League]]''.<ref>Hard4Games (November 12, 2020). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0sl8xhYG4E&t=683s Nintendo Toys"R"Us TRAINING Kit - Holiday 2000 | VHS/Catalog/Swag]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved November 24, 2021.</ref> A prototype of the canceled game was discovered years after its cancellation, with one of the main differences being the title screen.<ref>Gamers Manuel (July 19, 2020). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kANs1LYAm4c FOUND: PANEL DE PON 64 (N64 PROTOTYPE), UNRELEASED!!!]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved July 21, 2020.</ref>

*The world map artwork found in the difficulty settings of ''Yoshi no Cookie'' depicts a massive sword piercing [[Bowser's Castle]]. This sword references [[Exor]] of ''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]'', who pierced Bowser's Keep during the events of that story.

==References==

<references/>

{{NIWA|StrategyWiki=1}}

{{Super Mario games}}

{{GCN}}