Puyo Puyo - A Deep Dive On The First Game's Rich History
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2024
- Today, I, Jonii will be taking a look at the first installment in Compile's famous Puyo Puyo series, which was later purchased by Sega. In particular, there will be a heavy emphasis on the game's many ports as well as the mysterious English translation of the arcade version, which later cropped up officially as a port of Sega Ages Puyo Puyo. I will do Arle proud.
0:00 Intro
0:52 Puyo Puyo for MSX and FDS?
3:30 Dominoes/Dominion/Dominion X
5:46 Gameplay Basics
6:52 Puyo Puyo (1991) Release
8:05 Puyo Puyo (1991) Characters
9:55 A Dr. Mario Ripoff?
10:48 Puyo Puyo (1991) Overview
13:40 Puyo Puyo (1992)'s Competitive Edge
15:34 Story
16:43 Puyo Puyo (1992) Gameplay, Characters, and Graphics
19:25 Puyo Puyo (1992) Music and Sound
20:19 Home Console Ports
29:35 Handheld Ports
31:24 Home Computer Ports
33:00 Puyo Puyo's Mysterious English Translation
39:10 Retroactive Rereleases
40:40 Sega Ages Puyo Puyo
43:14 Outro
Written, edited, and voiced by Jonii 
Игры
First off Arle was only 5 in the part one of Madou Monogatari, 2 and 3 already had her as a teenager, also a big help for Schezo and Rulue to become staples in the series was because of their importance in the Madou series.
The version with the improved character graffics was on the PC-98 not the PC-88, (also if you press esc right before the ending you'll get a sprite change with Arle drunk)
There was a port for the Turbografix16 (PC engine) that had redone cutscenes with full voice acting with new voice actors (the one for Arle being Kotono Mitsuishi the voice actress for Sailor Moon) tittled Puyo Puyo CD.
Mission mode was actually bought back in some versions like Game gear and PC-98 versions, and even got two standalone releases on the Game gear, one on the Super Famicon with RPG elements and Rulue as a second protagonist, with a sequel on the satellaview.
Also there was another port on the Nokia-N-Gage with color changes on the character portraits and less stages.
And finally the 1991 game somewhat got a port/remaster? on mobile that added a Arle portrait to side of the screen ruclips.net/video/J_N2ho_0x0s/видео.html
Witch, Draco, and Suke became staples more or less because of PP1.
@@austinreed7343 without puyo puyo 1 id not think witch would have gotten a random spin off game that is one of 4 games that have a fan translation patch (seriously, touhou fans figured out how to translate pc98 games ages ago)
Didn't Madou Monogatari 2 actually come out before 1?
@@lisbonmapping8425 It was a demo for the discstation a year prior with a few beta differences that reached up to Lyla ruins.
@@davidvaldez1093 I see.
Fun fact: Puyo Puyo 1 has more (official) ports than Doom 1993.
The fact that you have to specify official ports for Doom really goes to show how much people play it on crazy things ( like calculators, potatoes,and fridges)
@@13KillerShadows i'd love to play puyo puyo on my fridge
Yeah, but Doom’s unofficial ports all count as long as you can hypothetically finish the game on them. Otherwise the meme doesn’t work. Does Puyo Puyo have a porting meme? No? Thought so. Why the hell am I being so combative about this? I should take a seat.
1993 as in not including thy flesh consumed?
@@nngnnadas As in "not the Halo-like that Bethesda shat out"
Puyo puyo's success is likely from being an occasional dopamine factory, no matter how good or bad you are at it. All it takes is one accidental 7-chain to get hooked.
“Mom, can I have owanimo spell?”
“To cause 4 similarly colored creatures to disappear?”
“Yesss”
*Actually goes to kill Satan like a boss*
Puyo Time
That's a mood
"Hey buddy, I have a good idea!"
"What?"
"Can I try to trick batflight and snake-eyes by using the jellies and the squishies"
"I would join you on your adventure Nick!"
*Ends up defeating a powerful dark prince and vegetable ghost*
Squishy Splat Time
Arle is only around 5 in Madou Monogatari 1. In 2 onwards, she's 16. Also Satan doesn't show up until 2.
Also, the Puyos originate from Madou Monogatari, appearing as simple enemies.
Oh, thanks for clearing that up! Part of why I'm unsure of a lot of Madou stuff is because i haven't played them, do you know if there's a good way to do so for an English speaker?
@@joniivee I do not, I only got that information from looking around on the Puyo wiki.
@@joniivee Early Madou games were weird in many regards, especially in that they released a full trilogy first (hence why it's called Madou Monogatari 1-2-3, those are the first 3 games in the series) before splitting them off into separate games on the Game Gear.
Or 3 more platforms, if you're Madou 1.
Oh what? I didn't know the original trilogy was packaged like that from the get go, that's actually kinda wild xD
@@joniivee Yeah, they had a lot of faith in the Madou series, then Puyo happened and became their Persona or Mario Kart.
And then Madou stopped getting games as of 2005 for flip phones and Puyo still keeps on going.
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine was my introduction to Puyo Puyo, and I'm sure it's the same for others.
I never touched Tetris until like a few years ago. So there's this weird road of Puyo Puyo introducing me to Tetris via the crossover despite Tetris being extremely popular even today. And now I'm hooked on both, even though I'm bad at Tetris.
I was also shocked to learn at some point that Puyo Puyo is a spin-off. People say Persona is the biggest example of a spin-off outgrowing the main series, but I think that award goes towards Puyo Puyo.
My first experience with Puyo Puyo was Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, but specifically in Sega Mega Drive: Ultimate Collection on the PS3 (I think its called Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection in North America). I saw Puyo Puyo Tetris gameplay in 2018 and I decided to get it, and now I'm obsessed with the series. I didn't even realise that Puyo Puyo Tetris was the first Puyo Puyo game to be released internationally in over a decade at first, and it shocked me even more to find out that the game was originally released in Japan in 2014. I thought I wad playing a new game, but it turns out I was playing a port for a game that Japanese people had access to for 3 years before I did.
Isn’t the entire Mario franchise a spinoff of Donkey Kong ? ;)
@@quagstar The first Puyo style game I had played was from an Over the Hedge plug and play I used to have and I didn't really think much of it when playing and then fast forward to late September last year when I had enough money to get PPT1 and afterwards I instantly got hooked and even played some of the older titles like Fever 1/2 and the Anniversary games.
I believe the reason that Satan was in love with Arle is because she looks like his (ex/deceased?) wife, Lilith.
Still super weird considering her age, but there IS a reason for it.
That was an explanation from a novel with a separate continuity. The original reason is her completing his ''trial'' in a dungeon he made.
"I don't know what Carbunkle is." Carbunkle is a Carbunkle. A mythological, magic rabbit or fox creature that is often used in fantasy properties, and was especially popularized by the Yu-Gi-Oh monster of the same name.
Actually it was Puyo Puyo and Final Fantasy that are responsible for popularizing the creature Carbuncle in Japanese media, at least that's according to the Japanese wikipedia article on the creature: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AB_(%E4%BC%9D%E8%AA%AC%E3%81%AE%E7%94%9F%E7%89%A9).
Puyo Puyo's Carbuncle first made his deput in Madou Monogatari [1990], while Final Fantasy's Carbuncle made it's first appearance in Final Fantasy V [1992] (although Final Fantasy III which released two years earlier featured an enemy named Carbuncle, who aside from the name had absolutely nothing to do with the recurring summon monster). Meanwhile, Yu-Gi-Oh's version of Carbuncle didn't debut in Yu-Gi-Oh until 2007, seventeen years after Puyo Puyo's version and fifteen years after Final Fantasy's version.
Its much more likely that Yu-Gi-Oh based their version on the Final Fantasy one, as it wouldn't be the first time that Yu-Gi-Oh featured a monster based on a creature from the Final Fantasy series, as Yu-Gi-Oh also features the Bracchio-raidus [yugipedia.com/wiki/Bracchio-raidus ] who is almost certainly based on the recurring Final Fantasy monster, Brachioraidos [finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Brachioraidos ]. I mean not only are their names the same in Japanese, ブラキオレイドス (Burakioreidosu), but the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh wiki even cites Final Fantasy as the original source of the monster (Unfortunately I can't provide a direct link as I can't get it to work for some reason so you'll just have to try searching for ブラキオレイドス on the wiki: yugioh-wiki.net/ ).
Anyways, both the Final Fantasy and Puyo Puyo series most likely derived their use of Carbuncle from the Book of Imaginary Beings [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings ]; a compendium of various mythical creatures from folklore and literature, compiled and written by famed Argentitian writer, Jorge Luis Borges. The book was originally published in 1957 and then received an English translation in 1969. The English version of the book was then translated into Japanese by translator Naoki Yanase in 1974, and was successful enough to be reprinted a number of times in Japan, so its very likely that the book was used as a reference for many Japanese creators.
All it would have taken was a quick google,,,
Tinker is a kangaroo it is just he was retconned to a fox in Japanese Media of Kitsy Cat due to unfamiliarity with Kangaroos over there in the east.
Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine was lowkey a gate way drug to weeb shit
yuh
How?
@@RigbyIsTheMan yuh
Bro I see how
facts
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The deal with Carbuncle is that he was supposed to be a gift for Arle when Dark Prince managed to get her fall for him and Carbuncle just decided to follow Arle around after she defeated Dark Prince!
38:05 As the expert one Gamegear localizations this is a common misconception.
-GG Alleste 2 is power strike 2 outside of Japan and gets a different title screen.
-Donald no magical world (japanese exclusive) changes language based on region.
-Pop Breaker is only playable on a Japanese system.
-Puyo Puyo, a Japanese exclusive, is called "Puzlow Kids" when played on a non-Japanese system.
-Tails Adventure changes language based on region
-Magical Puzzle Popils changes the default language on bootup based on region and is changeable in the options menu.
-Batman Returns has a soundtest menu if you hold start on bootup but only when running on a Japanese system.
-Streets of Rage called Bare Knuckle on the title screen on a Japanese system.
-Streets of Rage II called Bare Knuckle II on the title screen on a Japanese system.
-Ristar has an extra level when played on a Japanese system
-Buster Fight (japanese exclusive) changes language based on region.
-Sonic Blast called G Sonic on the title screen of Japanese Systems
And the TV tuner works on every system but is region locked in that it's made to receiver the TV frequencies of that region.
I'm the guy that compiled all the region differences between gamegear games. Seeing as at the start of 2021 there was no info on this topic beyond some stray forum mentions and the puyo-puyo wiki (which I assume you have this info from) which also mentions Donald no magical world.
A lot of these region checking were simply to save on manufacturing I imagine like with early Megadrive games. Though in cases that never left Japan I imagine there where plans from the developer to release them outside of Japan but the publisher said no. And in the case of Ristar it was due to adjusting to western sensibilities as the cut level was "too hard". And in the case of Pop Breaker IDK so I speculate it's the only gamegear game with intentional regionlocking, but could also simply be a bug in the code.
I know way to much about gamegear region differences in a single cart... The system proclaimed around the net to not have a region.
God honestly, puyo puyo is better than tetris personaly, it requires a more lot foresight and planning to play competitively and is lot more fun to play with multiple people, while tetris with multiple people doesn't feel that different from single player.
I think I'd agree. Puyo Puyo with another person or CPU is a whole different game.
Another thing worth noting about the english translation: In nearly all future puyo games, Satan is referred to as Dark Prince, just as he was in the arcade and game gear versions. Hell, the only time he's actually called Satan overseas is in the e-manual for the Sega 3D Classics Collection on the 3DS. Whether this is due to religious censorship or just a matter of consistency...well, we'll never know.
I'm guessing it is for religious reasons. The "puyo puyo underworld" mentioned in English versions is literally called "puyo puyo hell" in Japan. That does lead to the very funny song name of "fun puyo puyo hell" which you should look up and listen to if you don't know why that name is so hilariously unfitting.
I doubt that it is for the sake of consistency, considering a lot of things were changed between the English versions of puyo puyo fever and puyo puyo tetris (Rider changed to Lidelle, Raffine changed to Raffina, Carbuncle went from saying "ta da" to "gu", etc) even more changes were made from the original game to puyo puyo tetris. It would be weird to only care about consistentcy when it comes to dark prince/satan, since even Arle had her name changed from the original dub.
He was also referred to as Satan in the Sonic Runners event.
An absolutely wonderful look at the many versions of the original Puyo Puyo. With how much of a massive Puyo fan I am I'm surprised this is the first time I've heard that the original original Puyo Puyo had a domino skin.
Thank you for being like the only person outside a few others to talk about this franchise.
A fact that you missed; the Master System and Plug and Play versions of Mean Bean Machine where Puyo Puyo's only outings on those consoles, so yeah, it's the closest everyone gets on playing Puyo Puyo on a plug and play for the latter.
Plus, there was also two PC localizations; Qwirks, by Alexy Patinjov, which replaced all of the Madou Monogatari characters except for Carbuncle (renamed to Cosmo in there.) with original characters. And Timon and Pumbaa's Bug Drop, which scrubs off every single Madou Monogatari character and replaced them with the titular Timon and Pumbaa, the Puyos being replaced with colourful bugs, and garbage puyos being replaced with rocks or stones. It wasn't included on the SNES version of Jungle Games because there was already a version of Puyo Puyo released for that console.
I love puyo puyo, but considering how it has been a pretty much Japanese exclusive series until recently, it's cool to learn about stuff that I wasn't aware of before. The ost for pretty much every puyo puyo game is way better than it needs to be. The final battle theme in Puyo Puyo fever, where you literally fight a cat to get a cane, is really intense and amazing. It is especially great when it is playing in the background of a somewhat questionable sounding English dub.
Is this that "Poyo Poyo!" Kirby is always talking about? He knew the truth all along...
Madou Monogatari is such an underrated series.
Also, in 2013 there was a reboot of the series called Sorcery Saga, made by Compile Heart (basically Post-Bankruptcy Compile).
Its weird..
Oh HELL yeah! Always a treat seeing detailed Puyo content like this! Great work!
Gotta say, this was my first time watching one of your vids and I'm already a fan! Puyo Puyo's a series I've been wanting to know more about because going into Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 and 2 blind left me so confused on who the characters were. But thanks for making a great comprehensive deep dive on the original game's history!
Hey thanks so much! Part of the motivation for making this video (and my interest in the older games in the franchise as well) was because of my similar experience with the first PPT. I was interested in the characters and world but also really confused by them. Happy to have been helpful in clearing some of that stuff up and doubly happy to see this comment because I'm a fan of your stuff. :D
@@joniivee Eyyy! Anything for a fellow content creator! Small youtubers gotta stick together! Arle and company deserve so much love ^3^
I know I'm late to this video but your style of writing and editing is just delicious, and your taste in games is quite similar to mine! I love your stuff and hope you keep at it :P
Almost related fun fact: In LEGO Dimensions, Eggman provides a side quest to collect Chili Dogs to bait some kind of unseen Sonic capture-trap-ification machine or something. When you find one he'll say "I see you've found a Chili Dog! This one seems to contain some really MEAN BEANS! Oh fun fact, I used to have a Machine that made those! It was a...rather niche market...,"
Great vid, it's very informative! I've been wanting some new Puyo content in my recommends lately and hopefully this boosts the algorithm for me.
Wow, Compile’s successor are devs of the Neptunia series
Small world
This is an absolutely amazing video! I've been watching your videos for a fair but but this one has earned you another subscriber. Cheers & keep up the hard work.
Your videos are so underrated! Keep making awesome content!
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11:53 *Despite never playing this version, I think I know how Carbuncle works. Basically, he takes the color of the first Puyo from the top of the column you select (only if there are multiple Puyos), and he applies it to the other Puyos in the same column.*
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38:52 *Suddenly, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.*
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amazing amount of research! i would love to see a video like this for puyo puyo 2~
Mazel Tov. This is a great channel. Super thankful to the algorithm for this one.
Madou Monogatari 4 will release in Summer 2024. It will be the first time since 20/30 years that Compile can make a Madou Monogatari game with all the original characters ever since SEGA bought it. It’s the parent series of Puyo Puyo and I hope it’ll release worldwide
This is such a fantastic video dude, very funny, and very informative. I loved it. 😎
this was a pretty cool n in-depth look at the game's origin, I really like all the effort and the humor's great. puyo puyo really is a bangin' game, and this video's proof of all that.
Oh yes the epic Puyo Puyo video from Jonii, truly must be special
This is a great video. I love the "Is Sylvana your fault??" part.
Well done sir!
Loved the research work to restore the legacy of the original franchise.
Come on, man. This video is so top-notch that it's insane.
Absolute banger, and I didn't even realize I wanted to know about Puyo today lmao
YO thanks so much, that means a lot coming from you! Sounds like I'm fulfilling my goal of giving people things they didn't know they wanted haha
This video feels like old RUclips. When every creator was putting effort. Awesome video!
I like to imagine the convo between nintendo and complie0 went something like, "Do for us what you did for Sega, but better, and if you don't we'll sue you out existence"
great video I loved this info. thank you
An interesting note about the Game Gear region detection is that it's also present on the Master System and the Genesis.
The best Master System example I know of is Power Strike, the US version of Aleste. The Master System boot ROM displays its own Sega logo, so games generally forego showing their own, and Power Strike is no exception. However, whether with an adapter or with emulation, if you run Power Strike on the SMS's Japanese counterpart the Mark III (which has no such boot ROM), it will actually display its own Sega logo on startup, and iirc will also use its Japanese "Aleste" branding. This Sega logo is actually unique to Power Strike, as a real Japanese copy of Aleste instead displays a Sega Mark III logo on that screen instead!
Now, on the Genesis, region detection is not a little known fact, as many games use it for region-locking. However, a few games use it for regional adaptation. One of these games is the first Streets of Rage, which selects between that Western branding and the Japanese "Bare Knuckle" branding based on the region jumper. This also determines the language of the intro text crawl. Funnily enough, if you use a modded-in switch or an emulator to change which region the system shows during the text crawl, you'll get to see that all the lines that come in after the region-switch will be in the other language to obey the new configuration.
another amazing video jonii!
Awe thank you!
You are such an underrated channel.
I really love the puyo puyo series and I'm glad this exists.
Fun fact: schezo gets whole ass decaptitated by arle on-screen in one version of madou monogatari 2
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Dude please no I actually had recurring nightmares featuring Face growing up 😭
So, I decided to play super puyo puyo on the switch while watching this, and I literally beat it right before you started talking about lol 😂
Great video btw, really love this series :)
The Madou Monogatari series has strangely complicated lore (get ready this is really long and please correct me if I get something wrong )
Satan (or dark prince) is a powerful being who fell in love with a woman, they were persecuted and made a new world to exist in.This new world is the one of Madou Monogatari.
There’s a dark force or something so a hero goes to defeat it and seals it.
Schezo is on a tour of the place where it was sealed in with a bunch of people and accidentally gets corrupted by this dark force.
Baby Arle goes into the forest and gets lost, she learns magic from faeries, and finds her way home
(this is why she shouts spells like: fire, ice storm, diacute, brain dumb [mind blast], Jugem, and Bayoen)
She enrolled into a Magic school and to graduate she has to survive a tower and make it to the end. As she reaches the end she sees her teachers and classmates only to realize it was a monster in disguise, she beats it, graduates, that’s it.
Let’s go over to Rulue, she gets trapped in a labyrinth and tries to navigate it, she gets rescued by Satan and that’s why she loves him.
Arle is now 16 and things happen. Satan loves her because he thinks she’s the reincarnation of his dead beloved. Rulue gets jealous but she and Arle become friends after trying to murder her. This is also the game where Schezo gets decapitated.
I literally cannot remember the rest of the franchise other than Schezo gets revived so let’s skip to the end.
A massive battle against darkness or something occurs and it culminates in LITERALLY EVERYONE EXCEPT ARLE AND SATAN DYING! The world basically ended, Arle is dying, so Satan uses his world making powers to create the Puyo Puyo world where everyone is still alive and it’s almost always sunshine and rainbows.
Obviously you shouldn’t take my word as fact and please correct me if I made any mistakes.
Great video about pyo pyo Jonii. Also I was wondering if you could do a video about the company Compile because they sound pretty unique.
Carbuncle? Eight year old me would like to correct you that he is, in fact, Pikachu.
Also True-Fan here, love the quality you put into your videos. This one is no exception.
Finally a Jonii video on Puyo!!!!
Awesome vid, so happy to see western people waking up to Puyo Puyo. Been obsessed w the gameplay of this series since first being exposed to robotnik's on the genesis like 20 years ago lol
Loved it! I wish it covered the subsequent versions and it's differences tho, love to see Tsu getting the same treatment and its sequels.
You forgot to mention that the mega drive port of the arcade version adds in a second rotate button. This massively improves the gameplay. (The physical arcade machine only has one rotate button)
Edit: also super puyo puyo (and Kirby’s avalanche/ghost trap) has a debug option to use an early version of the offsetting rule (countering chains with your own)
I love how you pepper in little Anime refrences.
Actually, I've been able to play Puyo Puyo on my Nintendo Switch through the Super NES Online subscription app. True, it's the Japanese version, but deep down, it's still Puyo Puyo.
And no, I am not upping my subscription to include the Sega Genesis emulator. I will miss the Mean Bean Machine.
1:48 he didn't have to go that hard for that photo lol
So me and my friend we're playing super puzzle fighter and I kept mentioning mean bean machine and how much I loved it. I had no idea this was its own franchise and immediately crapped myself and bought Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 and I am extremely happy
I guess you could say that this game really POPPED off in popularity
I wonder if there was a backlash from gamers who did not see Arle fully ingame on both the MSX and Famicom Disk System ports of the original Puyo Puyo game.
As someone who is currently in a Puyo brainrot, watching this video in December 2021 finally gave me the motivation to play Puyo 1 on the Genesis Mini, so thanks for starting my months of worship at the church of Arle
Fascinating video; I haven't played any Puyo Puyo myself (just seen it via other RUclips videos), so I always assumed the original characters were... original, rather than being from a pre-existing RPG series from the same devs.
I can kinda see why they chose them, though, since that meant they not only gave them character designs to work with, but pre-existing personalities too, which is something that seems to have help set Puyo Puyo apart from other matching puzzle games for a long time.
I also assumed the series started during the 16-bit era either in the arcades or the Genesis, rather than the 8-bit era on the MSX and Famicom Disk System, so there's another assumption proven wrong.
Very informative and witty. I'm not sure if you coered what "puyo" means in Japanese. It's an adjective for soft, squishy, bouncy and it can even be an onomatopoeia as well. And in a common Japanese style, they string the same word together twice for a better effect.
I got a copy of the FDS version a few months ago, it’s a nice novelty playing it to see where it started
Oh boyo boyo--time to learn about some Puyo Puyo
Took the words right put of mmy mouth compadre :D
10:05 Petal Crash! Awesome!
I haven’t played any variation of Puyo Puyo, but I love the “exercise mode”/middle levels theme.
I think Kirby in Avalanche may or may not be an unaltered translated version of how Arle talks to the characters in Puyo 1 lmao
21:37, I guess you could say Robotnik roboticized it :D
Wtf this information absolutely shocks me, I’ve only ever played on an English Puyo Puyo machine in Australia and this game has always been really special to me. I have never heard of the Kirby and Robotnik games before, and my friends and I loved Puyo Puyo when I was younger. I’m happy to message you the location of where I played it, but I’m not sure how useful that will be. It would have been early 2000s, but there were a lot of fairly old games there because it was a cheap arcade.
Nice video
Wow, that Sonic Mega Collection Plus music takes me back. Good times.
Awesome job with this video! I fear Carbuncle twice as much now >_
Oh, that's understandable, the dude is terrifying! Thanks very much. :D
Carbuncle is more cute in the squishy splats series but he has teeth and big cartoony eyes in it.
I still prefer the SEGA Allstars Tennis localized name for Puyo Puyo; Puyo Pop!
Puyo Puyo doesn't really say anything, other than that this game includes Puyo and Puyo alone, but Puyo Pop tells you that in this game you pop Puyos.
It's genius
I honestly kind of dug how they kept that name going for a few years. I know Minna De Puyo Puyo got localized as "Puyo Pop" and Puyo Puyo Fever became "Puyo Pop Fever".
@@joniivee Yeah, it's kinda sad that they turned away from that name, but at least they properly localize the games now.
I had a copy of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine when I was a kid. Still my favourite puzzle game.
27:51 There’s an option in the game to layer the faces over the puyos, (which sacrifices your ability to see what the fuck your opponent is doing) layering under them, and disabling it completely.
I can thanks to you talking about this wonderful game of puyo as a fair puyo player I hope you can enjoy the game as much as possible
On the topic of Puyo Puyo Arcade's localization, if you check the Japanese flyer for that release st the time, much like other Sega arcade games at the time that had localizations planned or available limitedly, there is in fact an English write-up on the game. Whether or not it's about the localization we all know I don't really remember, but considering the same happened for segasonic arcade, it seems real.
I'd imagine aside from what compile said about limited European release, it'd be for areas of Japan with large amounts of English speaking tourists.
Likewise, that "DO NOT USE OUTSIDE JAPAN" copyright warning games had back then being gone is probably just because, with international versions, they wouldn't really actually know who's using it and where necessarily
This is the second video I watched tonight in which Puyo Puyo is being pronounced as Poyo Poyo and I’m losing it. Great insight into everything tho! I never knew about Dominion X
Something to note. The game actually isn’t called Dominion! It’s called Dominon. They pulled a sneaky on us!
The reason Arle is featured in the art of Puyo MSX and NES is because the Puyos themselves are from Madou Monogatari.
Also only Madou 1, Madou SNES, and Madou A feature child Arle. Madou 2 and onwards have her aged up.
She does meet Satan as a child in Madou SNES, but he takes no interest in her in that game.
Real fan here 😎
I know you said you didn't want to go over every single rerelease, but I feel like you missed out on a notable one:
There was a PlayStation 1 version of the game included in "Puyo Puyo BOX", which also includes Puyo Tsu and also a bunch of original game modes, such as a mini-RPG story.
And Puyo Puyo BOX itself was made available on the PS3 store in Japan, making it also playable on PS3 and Vita.
Thank you for my latest obsession
nice use of the character at the end of the video.
Only a relatively new Puyo fan thanks to Puyo Tetris, but this was really consistently entertaining and way more informative than just "it was a Madou Monagatari spin-off" - not even finished watching yet and it's definitely one of those 'instant subscribe' sort of videos!
The way you say "Puyo Puyo" makes me think of the Poitter's Point (Poy Poy) series of party games from Konami. Think like an arena fighter, but you win based on fight choreography rather than defeating opponents.
Arle is definitely a hard name to pronounce. Puyo Puyo Tetris onwards, her name's pronounced "are-el" rather than "are-lee", like in Harley Quinn.
Is weird that I only found out about Puyo Puyo thanks to Baku Baku, I thought it was the same game because in the game site I used only had one image in small resolution and I thought I was reminding the name wrong.
Well after I learning my mistake and being quite bad at it I forgot about it until a friend showed me Puyo Puyo Tetris, but still nice to see a video explaining the "lore" of the game, and always knew I shouldn't trust Carbuncle...
So glad Jontron/Egoraptor is finally making new videos.
It still one of the best games that everything has to offer
Power strike II for GG also has a built in region conversion.
This game was also released here in the united states as "Squishy Splats" where only a few characters were kept and the rest were replaced like nick taking the place of the main character while carbuncle is still there.
The first time i unironically played Puyo Puyo 1 was behind Mean Bean Machine via the Mega Collection on the ps2, and i wasn't good at it, but my max combo in the game was 8. My friend didn't understand the game, so he was frustrated and didn't challenge me in mean bean machine ever again lol
27:11 True fan.
Listen. Puyo Puyo IS LIFE. Thank you.
Mean Bean Machine was one of the games that used to make me cry out of frustration 💀
The normal difficult music is kinda depressing to me.
I remember listening to it when I was going through so messed up time in my life.
I don't know why but the melody is just melancholic to me and I probably associate it with that time of my life.
Is the blueberry... BLUSHING?!
Puyo puyo is a big franchise but very underrated, the way i found out abt it is basically I played a game that was only in Japanese and guessed my was through it, and then later on found a funny puyo puyo dub which was very fruity
I kinda like the idea of that MSX emulator and those purchaseable roms, I'd pay to actually have safe and official downloads of old games. For some reason I just really like doing stuff in a more vanilla way
No one man should have this much information about puyo puyo