pickhut's Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe review

Well, to be sure, Meteos for the DS brought the genre to unprecedented heights by playing with the Stylus using only the touch screen.
You could say the game allowed a standard play option using the buttons only to emphasize the chasm between what Meteos could be thanks to the new systems and what it couldn't have been otherwise.

Still, no-one really credited the original DS Meteos as much as it deserved. You don't find it in historic games lists and discussions.
Maybe people, even videogame experts, are too assured that handheld system games must be minor.

(Another such case was Knights in the Nightmare: again, the DS Stylus-touchscreen combo gave it a one-of-a-kind game play which was coupled with what was a work of mastery even in itself.
This one too went quite under the radar — its value so little known that the traditionally-playing PSP version was talked about as on the same level with the original DS release.)

Well, never played Meteos, so I can't comment on it. Though, all the Meteos game listings on this site have reviews for them, with the majority being favorable.