It's Mr Pants

Admit it: you didn’t really think anything would come of it. But you were wrong. The time is upon us, my friends: the evidence that you’ve all been waiting for is here. It’s Mr. Pants is real, and on its way to a GBA near you.

This how it goes. Famous survey man, Pantsboard host, website ‘mascot’ and Rare game cameo celebrity Mr. Pants has taken some time off from his sideline in designer undergarments to set out a whole load of puzzles with which to engage and torment his fans. The result–also known as the handheld gaming event of the decade, possibly the century–is a lustrous diamond of a GBA cartridge, tantalising you with its range of different gameplay modes, difficulty settings and unlockable goodies.

The central game mechanics are reassuringly simple, so that anyone from puzzle warlords to uncoordinated mouth-breathers can play. Mr. Pants drops pieces towards the board, and you shunt them into place to create shapes, which either earns you points or cancels out shapes already on the board (depending on the type of game you’re playing). But! There are complications…

For a start, shapes have to be made in single colours, and pieces of the same colour can’t be dropped on top of each other, either fully or partially. You can dump different colours on top of each other, which could kick off a crazy chain reaction if you’re lucky or smart, but it could just as easily bring your progress to a grinding halt. Also, in some modes the sinister crayon snake slithers around the perimeter of the board, and will happily squirm into the middle and put an end to your game if you don’t keep kicking him back. And there are combos! And bonuses! And multipliers! And secret shapes! And all sorts of different freaky backgrounds!

You can choose from Puzzle, Wipeout and Marathon modes, which–respectively–challenge you to solve existing puzzles with a pre-selected stack of shapes, clear a messed-up board in two minutes flat, or see what kind of score you can amass in five minutes (while the crafty crayon snake tries to crash the party). Cleared Puzzle mode levels unlock new exhibits in Mr. Pants’ exclusive Art Gallery, which will either delight or horrify you, depending on what you think of the game’s stylised looked.

There’s more to tell, but frankly if you’ve got any interest at all in puzzlers, Mr. Pants or remaining a valued member of society, you should go and pick up the game when it’s released by THQ in your territory (out now in most places, imminently everywhere else). It’ll keep you going until your own pants shrivel up and disintegrate.

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rareware.com

An Abnormally Addictive Pants-tacular Puzzle Game!

***HURRY! Clear the screen! Time’s running out!

Race the crayon snake!

Multiple gameplay modes to hurt your brain!***

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Back of Box – GBA (UK)

Enter the puzzling world of Mr. Pants.

Mr. Pants completes his puzzles one leg at a time.

Features * Three game modes * Three save slots * Unlockable artwork

Welcome to Pants Land. It's a puzzling place. Not only is everything drawn like a stick figure, you need to figure out how to fit colored blocks together to make rectangles.

The puzzles look easy at first. Just fit the block into the empty space and complete the rectangle, right? If only it were that easy. It's Mr. Pants is loaded with challenges that will guzzle the gas in your think tank.

The standard Puzzle game challenges you to clear the board, but you only get a few pieces to help accomplish the goal. In Wipeout, the clock is ticking. You must clear the board in under two minutes. The Marathon game is also a race toward time, but it includes a "snake" that slowly makes its way around the edge of the screen, wiping out blocks as it goes. If you can piece a rectangle together, you make the snake go back and buy yourself more time.

Bottom Line

The two difficulty levels makes this puzzler challenging for all ages.

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www.nintendo.com