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Beans, also called the bean folk,[1] are a species that appear in the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog television series. It is a breed of beans that live in Beanville on Mobius. When these folk were targeted for roboticization by Dr. Robotnik, Has Bean, a former inhabitant of Beanville, set out to rescue his companions from their terrible fate.
Description[]
Anatomy[]
Overall, beans are depicted as small creatures. The skin color of the beans comes in different varieties, which has been seen so far to be green, red, pink, violet, cyan blue, yellow, and dark blue.
Characteristics and culture[]
According to Dr. Robotnik, beans are a jolly species who love having fun.[2] Most beans live peacefully in their own town on Mobius, Beanville.
Powers and abilities[]
Beans of the same color are able to link with each other. And if 4 are connected, they explode, go into the opponent's machine, and add colorless beans that can't be linked with, and take up space in the machine.
History[]
The Beans are residents of the town of Beanville, including the former inhabitant Has Bean.[3] At one point, Dr. Robotnik plotted to kidnap the citizens of Beanville and transform them into devious robot slaves using his "Mean Bean-Steaming Machine". As such, he sent out his henchbots to round up all the unfortunate bean folk and group them together in dark dungeons so they could be sent to the Mean Bean-Steaming Machine.[1] However, Has Bean, who had been turned into a robot prior to this, managed to defeat Robotnik's henchbots and eventually Robotnik himself, resulting in the destruction of the Mean Bean-Steaming Machine and the freedom of the bean folk.
List of beans[]
Regular bean[]
Regular beans come in five different colors: red, purple (pink in the 8-bit version), green, blue and yellow. In gameplay, they periodically drop down on the player's board in the form of pairs. If one such bean block lands on a bean formation so one bean protrudes over an edge, said bean will split off and continue its descend. When grouping four or more beans of the same color together, it will grant the player points and cause said Beans to disappear.
Refugee bean[]
Refugee beans[4] are transparent variants of the regular beans that drop down on a contestant's board when chain reactions from disappearing beans occur on the opposing contestant's board. The amount of refugee beans dumped depends on the length of the combo that created them. They cannot be connected like normal beans and can only be eliminated by having them touch a cluster of disappearing colored beans. They are not present in Exercise Mode.
Big Bean[]
In the Exercise Mode of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Big Bean appears after the player has performed well in a game and is about to lose. Big Bean falls straight to the bottom of the board, erasing whichever two columns of Beans that are in its way.
Has Bean[]
Trivia[]
- Beans in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine are exports of the group of eponymous creatures called Puyo from the Puyo Puyo games. All five regular Beans retain their original color schemes as Puyos, while the transparent refugee beans are based on the Nuisance Puyo.
- Due the different artistic licenses, the appearance of the beans varies in numerous depictions. In gameplay and manuals, beans look exactly like the Puyo from the Puyo Puyo games (resembling blobs with wide eyes). Cutscenes and box artwork, however, depict them as literal beans with or without clothing. Beans like these also either have regular black eyes or button-like eyes, as show during the ending on the 8-bit version of the game.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Sega Genesis) United States instruction booklet, pg. 1.
- ↑ Compile (November 1993). Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. Sega Mega Drive. Area/Level: Intro. "Robotnik: Witness my evil dream to get rid of Mobius of music and fun forever. My latest invention, the Mean Bean-Steaming Machine, will not only dispose of those fun-loving jolly beans of Beanville, but turn them into robot slaves to serve my evil purposes. Robots. Bring me those beans."
- ↑ Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Sega Genesis) United States instruction booklet, pg. 13.
- ↑ Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Sega Genesis) United States instruction booklet, pg. 7.
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