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beardedpowerlifter - Wednesday at 2:46 AM
   beardedpowerlifter Wednesday at 2:46 AM 
Hello! Guys, help me, I'm completely lost in thought.
When I was little, I played a Japanese game, maybe on a Sega or PS1. It was a puzzle game, more accurately Tetris with RPG elements. It had two screens, yours and your opponent's, and blocks (or balls or figures, I can't remember) on top. When you completed a combination, you accumulated points, which you could use to cast skills that hindered your opponent. The game was drawn in an anime style, with flashy special effects and the characters' facial expressions.
There was one character in the game who, when casting a skill, would shout in Japanese, "Utatane koko ni kangai." It was almost certainly "U koko ni kangai" or something very similar, that's how I remember it. Plus, the skills weren't just nothing happening on your screen, but something appeared on the enemy's screen—a freeze, a stone block, or something else, all accompanied by an epic animation on your side of the screen.
Please help me find it, I'd be incredibly grateful.

   rorirub Wednesday at 7:28 AM 
That could be any number of VS puzzle games, but it's the Puyo Puyo series that had the most "attack" animations. Puyo Puyo Tsuu and Puyo Puyo Sun only had elaborate animations but everything happened automatically, Puyo Puyo~n had a specific button for characters to do things but I think those were defensive skills. Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo had two chibi street fighters duel on the middle of the screen and when you scored higher they did a special attack (hadoken, shoryuken, whatever) on each other.
There are a bunch of others (Tokimeki Memorial Puzzledama, Sakura Taisen Hanagumi Taisen Columns, Tetris Plus, Baku Baku Animal, Ryougae Puzzle Game Moujiya) but they don't have as elaborate attack animations as you describe. Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-a-Move) 2-3-4 and Magical Drop 1-2-3 had some animations but they were not the "falling blocks" type game, but the opposite.

Most of those just have garbage blocks fall for the enemy, and some animation going on in your field. Puyo Puyo~n is the only one I remember where you could physically affect the screen with attacks, like drop swords to clean things up and such. That was on Dreamcast and maybe PS1.

   beardedpowerlifter Wednesday at 9:37 AM 

  rorirub said:

Thank you so much for your detailed and comprehensive answer! I'll go check out YouTube for all the titles and games in the series you mentioned. If I find the one I was talking about, I'll let you know in the thread. Thanks again!