About

Puyo Puyo, also known as Puyo Pop in North America and Europe, is a Japanese puzzle video game created by Kazunari Yonemitsu. Similar to games like Connect Four and Tetris, players compete head-to-head matching four or more of the same color Puyos. To play the game efficiently, creating combos in the form of chains makes it easier to defeat your opponent.

History

On October 25th, 1991, the first title of the series Puyo Puyo was developed by Compile for the MSX2 and Family Computer Disk System. This puzzle adventure feature characters from the 1990 RPG Madō Monogatari 1-2-3 which was also made by Compile. In a collaborative effort, Compile and Sega produced an arcade version of Puyo Puyo making its debut in October 1992.^[1] In 1998, during Compile's restructuring, the company sold the rights to Puyo Puyo to Sega, they continued working with Compile's development team until their bankruptcy in 2002. On November 26th, 2003, the Sonic Team became the key developers of the series with the released of Puyo Pop Fever and other later releases.

Gameplay

To play Puyo Puyo, your main objective is to defeat all opponents in a versus battle by matching the same color Puyo. With a match of four or more Puyos of the same color adjacent to each other, they will connect to each other, Pop, and disappear. When done, the player sends over nuisance Puyos to their opponent. To send even more nuisance Puyos, players make combo chains. Puyos are round and slime-like creatures that fall from the top screen in various groups of two, three, and four. They can be moved, dropped, and rotated using the controller or joystick. They will fall until it reaches another Puyo or the bottom of the screen. It's important to note that Puyos of the same color can only connect horizontally or vertically, never diagonally.

Reception

Puyo Puyo series has received mostly positive reviews over the course of its many titles. Since 2018, the series as a whole has sold over 27 million copies worldwide since Sega obtained the rights.

Fandom

Let's Play

Puyo Puyo Tetris has inspired a number of popular Let's Play. On May 17th, 2017, YouTuber TFS Gaming uploaded a video "PUYO PUYO TETRIS | TFS Plays." The post (shown below, left) gained more than 70,000 views. On August 7th, 2017, YouTuber Elu Tran published a video "A Skilled Puyo Can Beat Any Tetris." The post (shown below, right) received more than 365,000 views in two years.

Also, the Game Grumps (shown below, left) and SimpleFlips (shown below, right) have posted videos of themselves playing the game.

Speedrunning

The respective entries of the series have a community of players who play Puyo Puyo competitively and a handful of people who speedrun them.^[2]

Fan Art

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