This game features the villian "Dr robotnik" trying to stop the fun and jolliness of beanville for all eternity. In this game, you control a pair of beans descending down the field by pressing left or right on the d-pad to move the beans left to right, and hold down to make the beans fall atleast 15 times faster than normal depending on the speed. That is simple, right? No, you press buttons A, B, or C to rotate beans either counter-clockwise, or clockwise (controls can be edited in the options menu before you start your quest to save beanville).
The music of this game is well composed for a 16-bit system, there are lots of SFX and BGM when you need them, however, there isn't a sound test.
The sounds are great, too.
In the quest to save beanville, you need to fight through 12 robots with your bean saving skills in order to fight robotnik himself, but it isn't that easy, the AI of the CPUs are programmed a certain way, such as, "clumsy", "smart", etc. If you manage to fill up the third column of the opponent's field, you will win the battle and you will get a password to write down and you can fight the next enemy. However, if your 3rd column gets fill up, the dungeon collapses and you will have to continue by pressing start in 10 seconds, if you hit start during the countdown, you can continue right where you left off. Not pressing start during the countdown brings you to the high scores, then to the title screen sequence.
Thanks to the password system in North America, the game is a lot easier to play and you'll play more often than before, like I said, there is 12 stages before you fight robotnik in the 13th and last stage.
Overall, this game is just perfect for your library, it has great sounds, gameplay, etc. The game is easier than the original version of puyo puyo. The story is the most important part of the game, you are the hero, trying to save beanville and the world before robotnik puts a end into fun and music. If you actually own a cartridge of this game, you're lucky nowadays! This game is also featured on the 12-in-1 game, "Sonic Mega Collection", "Sonic Mega Collection +", and "Sonic Gems Collection". Buy any of those 3 game packed discs, they are the best compilation of classic games ever!