11/6/2023 0 Comments Puyo puyo tetris![]() ![]() Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 brought about many changes to the balancing as well, whereas in the original it was notoriously in Tetris’ favor. Though these games are built on different design ethos, they mesh together with some surprising effectiveness. T-Spins, good block building, and keeping cool under pressure are the main ingredients to victory. ![]() There’s a heavy emphasis on racking up enormous combos and having a good reaction to the attacks your opponent sends your way. While it remains the easy-to-understand game of clearing columns and rows with differently shaped and colored blocks, it’s also evolved in more subtle ways. The other half of the game, Tetris, is all about raw speed and technique. It’s as thrilling as it is hard to get to grips with, but once you do, it’s hard to put down. It’s often likened to a fighting game, and I find that comparison to be quite apt. It’s a risk between having your own screen be filled with Puyos for a big combo to destroy your opponent, while also knowing that building a combo leaves you all the more susceptible to a sudden loss. It’s not just about making a big combo of Puyos, it’s about deliberation and mind games, doing things to make your opponent trip up or slow down. While a simple game on the surface, Puyo has almost endless depth within that simplicity-its timelessness and strong competitive scene attest to that. In Puyo Puyo, you’ll find yourself playing a matching game, lining up jelly-like objects called Puyos in an attempt to fill up your opponent’s screen with ‘garbage’ Puyo. Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 adheres to the age-old philosophy of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” to good success. Despite having many sequels and iterations over the years, the core gameplay and appeal to both remains largely untouched here. With more than 30 years under both their belts, Puyo and Tetris are both godfathers to the competitive puzzle game genre. I’m very happy to see those issues completely rectified in this outing. While Puyo Puyo’s “canon” is already loose and nebulous, most would agree that consistent characterization is still important. This led to many scenes either stripping some characters of their nuance or adding details that were totally absent in the Japanese script, leading to many inconsistencies. One issue that longtime fans noticed with the first crossover game’s script was the egregious amounts of creative license used when localizing it. Something to note between this game and its predecessor is that Puyo Puyo Tetris 2’s script plays it more closely to the original Japanese script. It knows exactly what it is and what it wants to be, and pulls it off effortlessly. Rather than ignore this, it leans into how ridiculous it is for a series of gags, jokes, and character interactions that stick the landing nearly every time. Overall, the story doesn’t take itself very seriously at all and is acutely aware of its own absurdity. If you’ve played both, it becomes sort of eerie seeing the way characters repeatedly struggle to remember things they know have happened before. That said, it rarely ever loses that simple, silly Saturday morning cartoon flair that usually characterizes the zany nature of Puyo’s increasingly strange universe.Įveryone’s also lost their memories of the original Puyo Puyo Tetris even occurring, though the events of that game are still important to this one. There are some twists along the way as more and more characters are introduced, as is standard fare with these stories. People are acting unusually hostile and crave battle, and at the center of it all is a mysterious new figure that hails from neither the Puyo nor Tetris dimensions. The dimensions between Puyo and Tetris are beginning to merge and weird things are happening all across the world as Tetris-shaped blocks rain down from the sky. If you’ve played the original Puyo Puyo Tetris, then the story here will be familiar to you. The latest and greatest in those games is the sequel to what kicked off the series’ western support, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Since then, the Puyo Puyo brand has seen more support outside of Japan, with games such as Puyo Puyo Champions. ![]() That all changed with the release of Puyo Puyo Tetris in 2017, which was a roaring success worldwide. Barring some fringe releases here and there, Sega seemed mostly content with allowing it to stay that way. It wasn’t that long ago when Puyo Puyo was a mostly unknown franchise outside of Japan. ![]()
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