Capcom Fighting Collection: Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo Beginner Tips

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While Capcom is known for its fighting games, the company is responsible for an arcade puzzle classic that still gets played to this day. Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo features Capcom's various fighting game characters in battles that seamlessly combine puzzle game and fighting mechanics. So, while it's not technically a fighting game, its inclusion in Capcom Fighting Collection is well-deserved.

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Puzzle Fighter's gameplay is both straightforward and remarkably complex. In short, you build gems of the same color, then destroy them and send counter gems to your opponent's side. The first person whose gems reach the top gets KO'd. Still, understanding the nuances of this title will help you develop strategies that parallel the tense mind games of a 2D fighter.

So, how do attacks work in Puzzle Fighter? First, you must build power gems by placing gems of the same color next to each other in a rectangular arrangement. Then, when you wish to send an attack to your opponent, you can destroy the power gem with a crash gem of the same color—the bigger the power gem, the more potent the attack.

Without getting too technical, there are three levels of attacks indicated by the counter-gem drop warning in your opponent's gem field.

Connecting crash gems to any gem of the same color, whether they are rectangular power gems or linked normal gems, will cause an attack. However, crashing power gems grants a more substantial possibility of landing specials and supers.

So, in theory, it would behoove you to create an enormous power gem and destroy it, sending enough counter gems to fill the rest of your opponent's gem field. However, this strategy looks much