Seeing as Capcom isn't really known for puzzle games in this generation -- though back in the day, they were, especially with the remarkably additive, 10-year-old, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo --, Capcom Puzzle World for PSP enters the casual gaming fray seemingly from left field.

Odder still is how trademark Capcom brands are so conspicuously hopping on board the newly rejuvenated casual gamer bandwagon with generic coffee-break frivolity in trademarked packaging in an apparent effort to attract both Super Puzzle devotees and their casual grandmothers.

Most odd, it works.

Capcom Puzzle World is a decent (if scant) collection knocking off or regurgitating old versions of Columns, Breakout and Buster Bros -- there's three balloon-popping variants of the latter for a sum total of five games.

The Columns rip-off is the same Columns rip-off it was a decade ago
under the guise of the aforementioned Super Puzzle Fighter II, still as addictive a rip-off as ever nonetheless. It incorporates old-school, 2D-fighting characters and their unique moves to actuate the dropping/matching/dumping/clearing of columns.

The others are just same wolf, different sheep costume-type games. As casual puzzle gaming goes, Capcom Puzzle World is no better, no worse than any other grandmotherly game collection out there -- except with Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo as the title's flagship lure for devotees.

• TIP: There are hidden, playable characters in the Super Puzzle Fight II Turbo game found in Capcom Puzzle World for PSP. You can play as Dan by highlighting Donovan on the player select screen and press Down on the thumb pad. Play as Akuma by picking Hsein-Ko and pressing down; as Devilot, with Morrigan. You can also play as Anita by holding L and R as you select Donovan.