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Puyo Puyo Tetris Review
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Puyo Puyo Tetris Review
Infinite > 07-27-2020, 05:56 PM
From Marvel vs. DC and Mario vs. Sonic to PS3 vs. Xbox 360, we love rivalries. It’s fun to watch fans of the communities duke it out or even become very friendly to each other. But what’s even more fun is seeing these franchises collaborate with each other like the Mario & Sonic Olympic games, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright, or even Animal Crossing and Doom (this one technically doesn’t qualify but I’m counting it!). The game I’ll be talking about is in the same vein.
Consider the game Tetris, one of the most successful games for the Gameboy. This game is one of the most famous puzzle games of all time. But there was one other puzzle game that was gaining a reputation called Puyo Puyo. While Tetris was about eliminating an entire row, Puyo Puyo was about connecting four or more puyos, little slime creatures, together. The more combos you made, the more points you earned.
Now, I am a lot more familiar with Puyo Puyo thanks to a little game called Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine. I didn’t play a single Tetris game till years later on the Gameboy. I enjoy playing both of them so when I found that Puyo Puyo Tetris was released on Steam, I decided to buy it.
Puyo Puyo Tetris is a combination of both the gameplay of Puyo Puyo and Tetris. When it was released on April 25, 2017, in America, the game received a lot of praise and won the award for “Game, Puzzle” in the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards (NAVGTR Awards). So, do the two games mix well? Or has it become a creeper?
There are two dimensions, the Tetris and Puyo Puyo dimensions. These two were always separate until tetriminos oddly started falling in the world of Puyo Puyo. You play as several characters such as Arle, Tee, Ringo, Ai, etc. who are trying to figure out why the two dimensions are colliding. The story in this game is pretty good considering it’s just a Tetris/Puyo Puyo game. I have honestly never played any other Puyo Puyo game besides the one I mentioned in the third paragraph so I am not familiar with any of these characters. While I do love all the characters, I find the ending a bit underwhelming. I give the story a B+.
As you go through the story, you will play in Tetris, Puyo Puyo, Swap, or Fusion. Swap is when you are playing two games at the same time (one being Tetris and the other Puyo Puyo) while Fusion is a combination of the two games where you have to deal with both tetriminos and puyos at the same time. The goal of the game is to make your opponent’s side filled up with either puyos or tetriminos by eliminating the ones on your side of the field. The more combos you make with puyos, the more are placed on your opponent’s side. The more lines you eliminate at once, the more tetriminos are placed on your opponent’s side. Overall, I had a very fun time playing the game. I find the fusion part a little confusing at first but other than that, I loved it. I give it an A.
The soundtrack is……..fine. I don’t really have any thoughts on it. I’ll give it a B.
To conclude, I really liked this game. The characters were fun to see interact with each other and I hope to see these characters again. But besides the characters, the story is pretty meh. The soundtrack is also a bit lacking. Overall, it’s a fine game. I give it a 7.8/10.
At a Glance
/b] Puyo Puyo Tetris
[b]Summary/b] Find out why the worlds of Puyo Puyo and Tetris are colliding and fix it before it’s too late.
[b]Rated: E 10+ for Everyone 10 and Up: Comic Mischief, Mild Suggestive, Themes
Price: Nintendo Switch/b] $29.99 [b]PS4 and Windows: $19.99
Distributor: Sega
Systems: PS4, Nintendo Switch, Windows
Release Dates: PS4 and Nintendo Switch: April 25, 2017. [b]Windows/b] February 17, 2018.
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RE: Puyo Puyo Tetris Review
NeoMetallix > 07-28-2020, 06:30 PM
I bought this when it came out because I love Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine and played the heck out of it as a kid. Also like Terri's but not as much.
Still haven't beat it though. Lol