It’s such a great way to romp through all the different styles this game has, going from straight Versus matches to some of the wackier stuff like Skill Battles and returning modes such as Big Bang and Swap. The Adventure mode contains a lot of story as well as a lot of challenging puzzle scenarios of varying modes. I’m just thrilled the weirdo robot named Zed is back with his wonderful loud robot voice. All your favorite characters from the first game are back, doing something across different worlds and space and junk. Now I know people are out there who probably enjoy the story in Puyo Puyo Tetris, but for me, it’s just a colorful conduit to play puzzles. Going through some of these tutorials helped me grapple better with higher-level play, and I’ve played Tetris and Puyo Puyo for most of my life. This is such a nice and welcome addition that makes games that have a combined 50+ years of history more approachable to a wider audience. These Lessons exist for every game mode and the ones for just Tetris and just Puyo Puyo also feature a variety of problem challenges that spell out more specific strategies while letting players actually execute them. Skill Battle does have a handful of tutorials, but I didn’t find them quite as helpful as the rest of the smartly crafted lessons that are built into the game and teach you the basics and higher-level play. The only knock against it is that it’s hard to wrap your mind around since it is so drastically different. Lots of customization makes this a very deep mode. Adding more depth are the item cards you acquire, which are randomly generated boosts for your game. It’s impressive to see such a new concept applied to tried-and-true puzzle games. You also need to be way more mindful of your health and your opponent’s health. It tweaks the calculus for victory just enough to be refreshing as, for example, you don’t actually lose when your screen fills up you just lose health. Skill Battles are an RPG-ish mode where you pick a team of three characters and make use of MP to use special abilities that do things like clear junk tiles from your screen, up your defense, or heal your health. Additionally, a Skill Battle League also exists, which highlights the major new play mode in this sequel. While I couldn’t test the full breadth of the online pre-launch, the fact that the online for the original game and even Sega’s Puyo Puyo Champions still have a regular community makes me optimistic these modes will have legs. In this mode, there are leagues for each puzzle game separately and combined. The online got a big facelift, though, with the addition of Puzzle Leagues, where you can compete for a high ranking in different modes in a way that should pair players of similar skill levels with each other better. You can play regular Puyo Puyo, regular Tetris, or the fusion of the two in local or online multiplayer. Offline or online, you’ll have loads of modes that let you play the way you want from single-player Adventure to couch-competition Versus to ranked Online matches, and more.Basically everything from the first game is present here. Play traditional Puyo Puyo and Tetris…or mix them together to level up your game. But keep an eye on what’s coming your way too. Playing is easy: match 4 or more same-colored Puyos or complete a line of blocks to clear them from your board and dump Garbage into your opponent’s game. Japan’s beloved puzzle game series Puyo Puyo and the world-renowned Tetris® game franchise have teamed up again to deliver even more Puyo-popping and Tetrimino-clearing fun in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.
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