/vr/ - Retro Games

Lup Salad is a fun and addictive puzzle game where you play as the titular Salad, a little girl who is taken all over the world by her globe-trotting parents. Each level is thematic of a different country or region of Earth, and the small details give these a lot of personality, such as the fact that Salad's outfit changes depending on the climate, as does her sprite (like how she dons a parka when they go to the Arctic).

The game's rather basic story is told through nice and charming pixel art, but the gameplay is the real meat. You are presented with a side-view of a puzzle and must push blocks of different colors in order to match them and make them disappear. Salad is fairly agile and can jump up blocks or gaps, but the game's real difficulty is that you'll always need to plan ahead and keep some blocks around in order to reach higher places later. By clearing all the blocks you get a full view of the panorama behind you, which is representative of the location where you currently are. Though the game is aesthetically very homey and almost retro, it can quickly become puzzle hell for novices.

It was ported to NDS as Lup Salad: Lupulupu Cube. The PSX original is available on PSN as a PSOne Import as well.