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Puyo Puyo Tetris, a Puyo master can destroy a Tetris Master in Fusion Mode
I was a going to buy this digitally, then I thought, "If they screw this up, I can't get a refund on the digital. I didn't know if it's just Tetris and Puyo Puyo individually or the 2 combined somehow. And I don't know if they combine well." So the physical version, the extra $10, and the keychains it was. I had quite a bit to be afraid up. I was afraid that the only way to play is either Tetris or Puyo Puyo separately, and I was a afraid the scoring system would favor one style or the other. after I pre ordered the Physical version once I saw the Fusion video, thinking it has potential. Luckily the first online match I had was Fusion.
For those who don't know, Tetris is a game where you make complete horizontal lines out of the 7 possible 4-piece 2-dimensional arrangement that can be oriented in up to 4 different ways. In that era, Nintendo did to Tengen (which turns out to be Atari Third Party on Nintendo Systems) what Atari did the Bally. (makers of what is now known as the Astrocade, Atari's first big competitor, before Intellivision and Colecovision became a factor) Atari was buying exclusive right to games Bally had the rights to distribute AS ARCADE GAMES, but Atari bought the HOME RIGHTS direct from the original Japanese developer (Taito, Namco, both of which were distributed by Bally in the 70's and 80's in the Arcade, and Bally assumed they had the home rights, so earlier Taito and Namco titles were on the Astrocade.) The most notorious one is Pac-Man. Bally had a way better unfinished version of Pac-Man, which on the Astrocade is now called Muncher. If you want a good dare-to-compare video, click here. To see Atari get a taste of its own medicine, click here.
Most people in the Untied States were first exposed to Puyo Puyo under the name Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. Groups of multicolored pieces fall, and you get them into groups of 4 or more touching, and if removing certain "beans" (now called Puyos, I have no idea what a Puyo is in Japan other than the concept of a colored bean in this particular game) lets other beans fall and creates new groups of 4 beans, those count as more points and can send Garbage Puyos to your opponent, which (traditionally) can only be removed by clearing a puyo in a directly adjacent space.
Fusion is the only online mode I tried so far. But it was a good one. And the one mode that I thought it could be potentially good enough, but unsure enough to buy the Digital download. The strategy is bigger than either game individually. Placing a Tetris piece on top of Puyos would squish the Puyos beneath them and play them back on top. If you look at the preview, you could, if you were good enough, anticipate where the puyos would pop up. and if a Tetris line is eliminated with puyos, you get good chain bonuses.
Tetris Blocks can be used defensively to permanently squish garbage Puyos too, (the grey puyos block which traditionally can only be removed by clearing a puyo next to it. Now they can be squished by Tetris pieces, too.) But consider where you place them so you don't cause floating pieces, which are a pain. Unfortunately, they do not fall and fill gaps in the tetriminos, like in the Next Tetris for Dreamcast, where removing a line can drop singletons into gaps filling holes and causing Tetris combos. That would have been a nice. I don't know why Sega thought Cascading tetriminos was a bad idea, or if they never thought of using it.
It seems like placing Puyos in traditional Puyos combinations and you can bury someone real bad with one kill shot is the number one strategy of online players. Your only defense seems to be either doing a smaller yet quicker Puyo Combo to give your opponent enough garbage to frustrate your opponent, or using Tetris pieces to squish garbage. But chance are your opponent knows how to squish garbage easily and can go back to setting up puyos.
I never played Puyo Puyo online before, and it'd be worth it to play Puyo Puyo online. I'n not THAT good, I can plan chains of 3 links, anything more, and I lose track. How does it work online?
Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'
I have played the game online. I never had a photo finish situation where my bad network would have penalized me. When I lost, it was not because of the network. It was because I didn't lay down my quick disruptor quick enough, or the guy just had an 8-chain of puyos finishing the game before it starts. Some of these opponents are SO fast, I don't see how you can set up 8-chains, let alone so fast. But people are THAT good, and I tend to be playing them online.
If you play alone online, I recommend you play with the Joycon holder and use both the + and -. The digital controls are faster with less delay. The controls are fairly customizable. But then again, you're not exactly playing Defender, or a modern "movie game". But the analog pad doesn't have the tactile feedback of pressing so many units.
There are a couple of faults. Unlike Xbox Live, where people can talk to you, and you them, instead people are codenamed, faceless, impersonal people. There's no reason why I'd friend one of them over another. I've actually made a couple friends on Xbox Live. It's hard to make friends online with the Nintendo network, but those are faults with the Nintendo Network, and not necessarily the game, and that might be fixed with a Premium network. And it may intentionally be that way to prevent child predators form contacting kids and friending them, which is a plus if you're a parent, and a minus if you're a bachelor or social butterfly. But if there are so little network problems in gameplay that I thought I was playing a local game when the Voip phone rang. The fact that the game doesn't disconnect when I press the OS button and every game I lost is either because I made a mistake, or I was purely outclassed, (and it's not every game so I know it's not my low speed) I give this game an enthusiastic 56OK.
