General Information

Released: March 4, 2004
A remake of Konami's long-running Taisen Puzzle-dama series of puzzle games, which in themselves are a rip-off of Compile's Puyo Puyo series, where you clear four blobs of the same color to eliminate them off the field. The key difference in Taisen Puzzle-dama is that you only need to have three of something of the same color to clear them off the board. Tradtionally in Taisen Puzzle-dama they're smiling circles, but in this case they're replaced by Pop-kuns.
The only Pop'n Music game that doesn't feature traditional button-hitting gameplay. It was also the only one until the Pop'n Music Wii game that required you to go online to download content.
Character designs are based off of the ones around the Pop'n Music 7 era.

Characters

Most of these characters have to be unlocked. Only Mimi, Nyami, The King, and Mary are available from the get-go.

During the course of the game, meeting certain qualifications unlocks music to play in-game, or in the option menu. Here are the songs.