Video Game Review - Disney Tsum Tsum!

I saw this Disney Tsum Tsum game at the Round 1 arcade! I don't have a single Tsum Tsum, but this game features the Tsum Tsum match game that's on the phone app. from the Line Corporation.  It is basically a game where you slide through the Tsum Tsums to get combos of three or more.  I got a 12 combo on the arcade game.  The trick is to continuously slide your finger on the same Tsum Tsums like the Daisy Duck.  The name comes from the Japanese verb “tsumu” which means “pile up.”  They are small, super deformed shapes of characters with a round face and a long, flat body which makes them perfect to stack on top of each other.  The Tsum Tsum were released in Japan to tie in to the games in 2013.  They appeared in the US in 2014 and are a fixture at the theme parks and Disney Stores.  The arcade game is from Konami. I like the Disney tie-in, though I have seen Marvel, Star Wars, and Tsum Tsums of all kinds.  

Disney Tsum Tsum arcade game, photo by the author.

You have the option to get a toy and play the game or just play the game itself; I did both.  The toy is a Tsum Tsum keychain in a plastic bubble.  I got a Minnie Mouse and a Stitch Tsum Tsum (twice!), and a Daisy Duck.  The Tsum Tsum come in a bubble, I thought you press the button and open the hatch, but you just lift the button to open the bubble.  You supposedly scan your Tsum Tsum to be used in the game, it took me time to understand, but there was a white pad that you can your Tsum Tsum in a bag and that brings it in the game.  The Tsum Tsums have specific powers like time stopping for Pooh.  There is a regular game, ballon that you have to tap several times to pop, too much fun, and a rotating game, didn't play that one.  It is a timed game so you have to multi-task; pop bubbles, find combos, or just slide through three Tsum Tsums to get the points.  The app game is tricky, you lose a ruby every time you play so you are forced to buy rubies.  I got 23 rubies for two dollars and keep getting rubies now so it has great play value.  Every time you level up you get a message for free rubies or coins.  My All Time High Score is 266,444 and I had a chain of 11 on the mobile game.  There is still much to learn about the game.  

Three Tsum Tsums on the scanner, photo by the author.

Four Tsum Tsums out of Five! 

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