Customer Reviews

Puyo Pop Fever

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

ok, then. I liked this game because it is somewhat original (look for puyo pop on the gba). I gave this game a 5 in fun because the in-game action is constant. I gave this game a 4 in educational value because you have to be looking at ALL times at your playing field, looking for possible matches. Gamecube disks are probably hard to break (none of mine have!)

C U l8r

Before I begin this review, let me say that I've never played a Puyo Pop game before this one.

Puyo Pop fever is an intense and quick-paced game. The aim of the game is to connect four puyos of the same color so they will go off of your screen. When you succeed in connecting four puyos, not only will they clear from your screen, but they'll send 'nuisance' puyos to attack your opponent.

However, the aim of the game isn't too just connect four puyos of the same color. It's to create combos. Setting up even a combo of three sets of four puyos can send some intense game-changing damage over to your opponent, and vice-versa. You want to be sure you send damage over to your opponent before they send damage over to you!

Another interesting twist to this game is that all nuisance puyo you send over to your opponent don't instantly go onto their playing field. Instead, they collect over your screen in a bar (it's hard to explain) giving the opponent a few turns to 'offset' your nuisance puyo. By creating their own combos, they are able to remove the nuisance puyo before it ever hits their side of the field. By offsetting, they go closer into going into a very powerful (almost too powerful) mode called fever mode. This gives them some quick chances to make huge chains.

The gameplay is fun, so I'm sure your wondering why it got a three. It got a three because the voices are really annoying. Sure, you can skip the horrible cut scenes, but even in game you hear the characters chants when they chain. The story makes very little sense, and is very childish. However, story mode can get very hard very quickly. I know I'm not the best at puyo pop, so maybe that's just me, but still. This game is too cute for many teens/adults, but too hard for younger children. If you can look past these flaws, the gameplay is great. Especially multiplayer.

This is a quality game. The idea is very different from Tetris so it's not just a clone.

The basic idea is to connect 4 puyos in any way. When you do that, you send a puyo over to your opponent -- this makes their stack reach the top of the screen faster so you can win.

But the real fun is figuring out ways to create chains that will really bop your opponent over the head with puyo (and cancel out any puyo they have waiting to drop on your head).

You will quickly pick up the game's simple controls, and mechanisms. But you won't find out what the game is really about until you play the cartooney Frankenstein like fella. You're obsession with understanding the his technique and mastering it (or creating your own) will send you flipping head over heals into puyo pop fever.

Lots of fun!!!!

Also, for those interested, you can have the words and all of the dialog in Japanese also, which makes for a very different and fun experience.

I'm getting this game for the NintendDS as well.

I think the cut scenese are corny, but you can skip those.

Puyo Pop Fever is a fun tetris-like game. The objective is to match 4 of the same color puyos together, which eliminates them from your board and simultaneously attacks your opponent by dropping garbage puyos on their side. However, the real challenge is to create chains (combos) to attack your opponent, which grows exponentially in strength. IMO, the best way to preview the game (without buying/renting) is to watch some of the replays on Youtube. They give an authentic view of how the gameplay works.

The English voice-acting is somewhat bad, and the save feature is unintuitive (saving is not automatic, and the save button is found on the options screen). Also, the gamecube controller is not ideally suited for this type of game. Particularly, its analog control stick doesn't allow the precise, yet high-speed movement that Puyo Puyo games require.

These minor distractions aside, the gameplay is very solid. Fever mode is an interesting addition to the Puyo Puyo series. For beginners, Fever is perhaps a fun way to unleash high-chain attacks on your opponent. It's also a way to escape imminent defeat and perhaps counter incoming garbage puyos. For experts though, fever mode is intense; the prebuilt chains steadily rises to a 15-chain combo, and failing one of the chains is tantamount to defeat.

It's a very good game, if this type of gameplay appeals to you. Watch Youtube videos of it to see if you like it, and if you do buy the game, search the internet for some guides. Many of the more advanced game mechanics are not fully explained in the manual, but can easily be found with a quick internet search.

Puyo Pop Fever is the latest installment of the Puyo Puyo puzzler series and has been revamped with an enhanced game engine that includes the new Fever mode, a larger assortment of characters, and additional modes. The Puyo Puyo series has a long and cryptic history here in the States. While a mainstay for the puzzler genre in Japan, Puyo Puyo has been released in many alternate forms, masking its origins over here. Veteran puzzler gamers will recognize the game engine as the same exact one from the Genesis and Game Gear's Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and the SNES's Kirby's Avalanche. Fever shares a lot with many other puzzler games; Puyo blocks drop down from the screen, and players try to combine four in a row to send a nuisance Puyo over to their opponent until their screen fills up---you can also unleash chain combos for devastating effects. But the new Fever mode adds a definite frantic dimension to the game. During a match, you build up your Fever gauge by eliminating Puyos, and when it's full, you'll enter Fever mode, which gives you a screen full of triple Puyo sets---one well-placed Puyo can set off a unstoppable chain saving you from the brink of disaster or unleashing a fatal blow to your opponent. The only limitation Fever has is that it supports only two players.
Additional enhancements in Fever included larger quadruple Puyo clusters, a 16-character lineup (two of which are unlockable), four courses, Free Battle mode in single player, three default rule settings, the ability to edit rules for versus mode, and three Endless Puyo Pop "classic" games. While single-player and Endless Puyo Pop modes are engaging, they can only really be considered training for the Versus mode. When you play against an actual person, the gameplay becomes faster paced and furious. Players must learn to adapt and process enormous amounts of information in a split second, paying attention to their current Puyo pile, the next Puyo piece, their Fever gauge, and their nuisance Puyo bank on the top of the screen. If you don't have any triple Puyo sets on your screen, the nuisance Puyo bank will unleash its contents. This will screw up your screen, and you'll hear the annoying chants of your opponent's character as he buries you. The characters are all well balanced and have varying styles and strategies, and they seem to be well designed to annoy the heck out of you while you play. There's nothing like the feeling of doom as you're fixated on your screen while you here the chants of the opposing character making chain after chain combos. With single, versus, and three endless modes, and 16 available characters, Fever is as addictive as it gets.

I played this version and preferred it for PSP (though you'd have to import that) but this version is still really good.This game is crazy, you're fighting another person (or computer) in puzzle form. It's all about making combos to send colorless puyos to disrupt player 2's combos but, you can counter this by making your own combos right after building you up to a special mode called "Fever Mode" where stacks are set up for you to break creating huge chain combos to break and send to your opponent. It's fast, it's crazy, and a ton of fun, grab it for any system; PSP, GBA, DS Gamecube.

This is my favorite GameCube game (though I use it with the Nintendo Wii). It's somewhat reminiscent of the puzzle game Tetris, though there's not the same need to fill in spaces. In the game, you try to connect liked-colored blobs, called Puyo. The best thing to do is create chain-reactions, so that dropping some will cause other-colored ones to drop onto and touch their own matching colors, thus popping them. It's a race against time. Once the Puyo reach the top, the game is over.

You can play against a friend and have a race, which is the most fun to do, since your actions will impact their game. Thankfully, it's possible to select different skill levels for each of you to make it more fair. These games are really quick, so it's easy to play one or several in a row. There are different characters with different specialties, though they can get a little irritating with the noises they make. The least annoying to me is Onion, who just utters little statements like, "Onion, onion!" when Puyo pop; another character says a cute little "ribbit." Keeping the volume low helps, and their noises aren't enough to detract from overall game enjoyment.

this game was pretty lame. it comes off as a tetris wanna be, but very poorly. go for something else.