Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures

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Pop'n TwinBee:Rainbow Bell Adventures
Rainbow Bell Adventures (cover).jpg
PAL version cover art
Developer(s) Konami
Publisher(s) Konami
Director(s) Yoshiharu Kambe
Composer(s) Kenichi Matsubara
Yukie Morimoto
Saiko Miki
Series TwinBee
Platform(s) Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
Genre(s) Platform
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures [a] is a side-scrolling platform game published and developed by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was originally released in Japan on 7 January 1994. Rainbow Bell Adventures is the first platformer in the TwinBee series, departuring from the vertically scrolling shooter genre.

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Gameplay

Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures features three playable characters: Twinbee, Winbee or Gwinbee. [2] All characters use their punch to attack, which can be charged to unleash a punch wave. They have two sets of weapons, one of them is either a short or long-ranged weapon (a hammer for Twinbee, a lasso for Winbee, and throwing rattles for Gwinbee), and the other one is a gun, which is a reference to Detana!! TwinBee 's cutscene, in which Twinbee is shown with two guns on each hand. All three can temporally fly in eight directions by propelling via a rocket pack that must be charged, as well as hover.

Aside from their weapons, the major difference between the characters is the time they require to fully charge their punch wave or their rocket propeller: Twinbee has an average charging time; Winbee charges her rocket propeller the fastest, but takes the most to charge a punch wave; Gwinbee, on the other hand, fills charges his punch quickly, but takes a while to charge his propeller.

The bell power-up from the rest of the series also appears here, and it allows any of the characters to obtain various kinds of power-ups, depending on the color of the bell, such as the sets of weapons, the gun, speed, options and invincibility. Unlike other Twinbee games, the bells are obtained by defeating enemies instead of shooting clouds.

The game also features a versus mode, in which players must defeat their opponents for three rounds.

Regional differences

Reception

According to Famitsu , Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures sold approximately 36,601 copies during its lifetime in Japan. [14] Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game tenth in popularity in its April 1994 issue, and it received a 23.1/30 score in a readers' poll conducted by Super Famicom Magazine. [15] [16] It also received generally favorable reviews from critics. [4] [5] [17]

Notes

  1. ↑ Released in Japan as TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventure (ツインビー～レインボーベルアドベンチャー～)

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