Puyo Pop

by THQ

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• ASIN: B00005V3F6
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: February 6, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,723 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

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Help Arle and Carbuncle make their way home and take on tons of wacky characters in Puyo Pop, a fast-paced puzzle game. It's a mad scramble to erase Puyo, create chain combos, and fill up your opponent's playfield. Puyo Pop features more than 18 levels of gameplay, 15 characters, and the ability to go head-to-head against up to four players on one cartridge via the Game Link cable.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best puzzle game of 2002 so far., February 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Puyo Pop (Video Game)

Puyo Pop is puzzle game. Simlar in play style of Tetris, which is basicly falling blocks. But thats where the similarity ends. You connect 4 or more little drop guys (puyo) of the same color together and they explode. Pretty simple huh? Not quite. They come in pairs and they are mixed randomly with other colors (5 colors). OK so what is the big deal. Tie this in with chain combos. A neat point pushing technique where one group of puyos set off another group of puyos. Nothing new huh? Well everytime you do this you build up your attack. An attack is where you build up so many points which (its hard to explain) in turn make block puyo that fall on your oppenents board to throw them off. Oh ho ho. I forgot to mention your oppenents. They can do everything thing that you can do. It can get pretty crazy. You can start of winning but watch out. Your oppenent could have some crazy-spectaculur attack busting chain just for you (I've seen some serious attacks)! There are some other gameplay techniques as well. This game has a lot of depth.

Well on to game modes. There are few. Which is my only complaint. There is the single player mode. You play as Arle and her weird little companion Carbuncle against the cpu and make your way through the stages. Before and after each stage you have a quick and quirky conversation with your oppenents. You can't save your progress though on stages but you really don't have to. Then there are the Endless modes. These are great for pratice. One of the modes just gives you an endless supply of puyo to pop. The other gives you tasks to complete in a certain amount of time. Then there is also the the multiplayer modes. Single or Multi pak play. And a neat gallery feature.

The music in this game fits the happy cheery but some what serious mood of the game. The sound effects get the job done. The graphics are simplistic but thats ok. Its not the type of game where you would see a lot of special effects. The puyo can been seen easily and you if any mistakes are made in playing they are because of you.

The controls are simple as well. A and B to turn puyo pairs and the d-pad to move the puyo pairs.

This game has a learning curve of 1 min and the depth of chess. I recommend this game to all puzzle game fans.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars odd at first , but addicting, July 6, 2002

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Jadecat (Lake Orion, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Puyo Pop (Video Game)

I just bought this game (along with 5 others, ugh) and this has become one of the immediate favorites for my 6 year old. (Tying with Pokemon Puzzle Challenge). First of all I changed the difficulty level to EASY, saving NORMAL and DIFFICULT for much later. There are 6 (or 7?) levels and you have to win your way up to them. Thankfully the game automatically saves itself, no passwords or silly things to write down. You play against the game opponent to match falling balls up, sort of like Tetris, but you can attack your opponents side by getting 4 to match. You can be neurotic and try to plan ahead with your colors, or just kind of guess where the best place is to land the balls. We managed to get to the second to last level after 2 days, which greatly reduced the frustration factor and kept it fun. There are also different options on playing,without an opponent, making the balls come faster/slower. Its really a neat game and will get used for those quick game fixes. The only thing that I thought could have been improved is the farther you get in the game, the more variety in balls there are, and sometimes they look alike when they aren't, like the blue and green, but that in no way is a reason not to buy it. We just got the new Gameboy light that they are raving about on this site, and maybe that will improve the view. For those of you who can't handle the fighting, side scrolling, dying 10 times a level type games, I would recommend this.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Puyo Puyo!, May 23, 2003

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James (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puyo Pop (Video Game)

This is a great version of the Puyo Puyo series on a portable system. Having played this game on the Nintendo and Super Nintendo, it is great to see that this series has reached American shores under the Puyo name. This is my favorite puzzle game of all time, it is quirky and very addictive. This installment adds more obstacles and innovations in gameplay.
I guess I'm a little disappointed that the Puyos (the little slime things that fall down the screen) don't have visible eyes, as that added to the quirky factor, but oh well, that would be impossible to do on a GBA.
THQ has discontinued this game, so grab it while you can.