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Puyo Puyo Tetris
Two puzzle game juggernauts collide as Tetris®, one of the largest-selling and recognized brands in gaming history, and Puyo Puyo™ from SEGA combine to create a fun-to-play, fast-paced, competitive party game like no other! There’s a ton of different styles of gameplay – from the single-player Adventure and Challenge modes to the ferocious competition of the up-to-four-player Arcade modes. Unlock new characters and backgrounds in Adventure mode, or unlock new character voices, skins for Puyos and Tetriminos, backgrounds and more in the in-game Shop. You can even try your puzzle skills on a global scale by playing any of the multiplayer modes with up to four players online in Puzzle League or Free Play modes.
Single-player mode offers ten unique acts, each with ten stages featuring different characters from the Puyo Puyo and Tetris universes. Each stage contains unique challenges players will need to overcome in order to win and move on!
For up to four local players, Multiplayer Arcade offers a wealth of variety that will bring out players' competitive nature!
Players compete head-to-head in either Puyo Puyo or Tetris to fight in the puzzle battle of their lives.
Steam User 36
sig from puyo puyo
Steam User 23
Schezo
Yes
Steam User 28
ruined my life
Steam User 19
i like the cubes
Steam User 34
Pros: Tetris
Cons: Puyo Puyo
Steam User 13
i don't know how to play puyo puyo please help
Edit: after 25 hours of gameplay i still don't know what the fuck im doing in puyo puyio
Steam User 13
A Brief Summary
Overall, this is an amazing puzzle fighter, with a good amount of content to keep you coming back.
The Casual Experience (Singleplayer)
As a puzzle game crossover it does its job. The Tetris and Puyo mechanics are solid. It has everything you'd expect in a Tetris game like score, time attack and endless modes, plus a few other competitive modes (my favorite of which being Swap). The game even has a charming little adventure mode that's actually a pretty good introduction to all the various modes in the game, and as a new player the adventure mode was actually relatively challenging.
That being said as a Puyo game it is honestly a bit bare bones on modes. Previous Puyo games had a plethora of casual and fun modes, something Puyo Puyo Tetris unfortunately lacks, which is a shame because I feel this game has a lot of potential for unique modes.
Nevertheless the game still has a good amount of content and features.
The Competitive Experience (Multiplayer)
Competitively, this is one of the most fun games I've ever played. This game has an extremely high skill ceiling and you'll keep improving even after spending thousands of hours into this game.
That being said it isn't perfect.
Getting into both of these games competitively as the tutorials only teach you the basic mechanics of each game, and you'd have to rely on external sources to better learn key concepts such as Tetris openers, or Puyo chaining forms which are key to playing the game.
If you're playing Tetris vs Tetris its a speedy/aggressive endurance match. Puyo vs Puyo is slower paced where almost every piece dropped is critical to overwhelm your opponent. Both fun in their own right. Puyo vs Tetris on the other hand is a bit of a mess:
From a Tetris player's perspective:
A Puyo player can be so annoyingly defensive, seemingly taking an endless amount damage and still surviving, and when they attack they do an unreasonable amount of damage. Either the match ends too quickly and not much of a fight is made, or the match drags on for far too long until you make a single mistake which will lead to your demise.
For a Puyo player's perspective:
As a Puyo player you are conditioned to build large chains, but when faced with a fast Tetris player that doesn't become an option as you are forced to deal with an endless amount of garbage, blocking your chains off and have to pray that the game's RNG is kind enough to let you survive. It can be an endurance match that can feel unwinnable sometimes.
There is also one over-centralising mechanic in Tetris called the 4-wide. I won't get into too much detail, but it is an extremely annoying strategy to deal with, regardless of the mode.
The game's online is decent enough. Most matches I've played are very fluent, with lag usually not being a factor, though I had a few times, when the game would disconnect a match for seemingly no reason.
Be wary though that the Random Matchmaking (aka Puzzle League), at least in this version of the game, matches you up with literally anyone, and I would recommend the console versions instead if you were interested in playing online with random people as those games attempt to match you with someone around your rating (though it may not help that the sequel is out a lot of the player-base migrated to that game)
Concluding thoughts
Throughout the course of this review I've been VERY critical of this game, however overall I love this game. Its the game that introduced me to competitive Puyo and Tetris both games that I have an extreme amount of fun with today, and still keep coming back to. Its a good game casually, and is one of the best competitive Tetris games out there (and THE BEST official Tetris game yet.
*As for competitive Puyo, Puyo Puyo Champions is a slightly better competitive experience, but the Puyo is still great in this game.