Puyo Pop Fever (Game)

Puyo Pop Fever

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The fifth installment of the Puyo Puyo series and a soft-reboot, featuring a new cast of characters, a new "pop" art style, new Puyo group types, and a "Fever" mechanic for potentially powerful counter-attacks.

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Overview

Puyo Pop Fever, known in Japan as Puyo Puyo Fever, is a falling-block tile-matching puzzle game developed by Sonic Team (Company) (along with MileStone) and released by Sega (Company) for arcades (using their Dreamcast (Platform)-based NAOMI hardware) on November 2003.

The fifth mainline entry in the Puyo Puyo (Franchise) series, and the first main entry to be developed by Sonic Team (Company) (who previously did the handheld entry Puyo Pop), Puyo Pop Fever features a new "Fever" mechanic (replacing the "Special Skill" system of Puyo Puyo~n) where offsetting enough of the opponent's Nuisance Puyo can cause the player to enter "Fever Mode" and attempt to solve separate boards of potential large combos for a strong counter-attack. It also introduces larger-sized pieces that are mixed-in with standard two-Puyo pieces, including a three-Puyo L-shaped piece and a four-Puyo square piece (the latter of which, if they are all the same color, change color instead of rotating).

Developed after the bankruptcy of the series' original developer Compile, the game is sometimes considered a soft-reboot of the series, as it features a completely original cast of characters in a new cutesy "pop" art style. Rather than the heroine Arle Nadja (Character), the game focuses on Amitie (Character), a spunky girl who attends a magic school and ends up on an adventure to find her teacher's flying cane for a reward. Amitie's posh rival, Raffine, is also in search for the cane.

The game received multiple home conversions throughout 2004-2006, including the PlayStation 2 (Platform), GameCube (Platform), Xbox (Platform), Dreamcast (Platform), Nintendo DS (Platform), PlayStation Portable (Platform), Game Boy Advance (Platform), PC (Platform), and Mac (Platform). Each of these versions include new game modes and features, such as the PC version including online matchmaking and both the GBA and DS versionS including four-player Single Pak / eight-player Download Play multiplayer. Sega published most of these releases, with the GameCube also released in North America and the PS2, GameCube, and Xbox versions released in Europe. Overseas handheld releases were done by either Atlus U.S.A. (North American DS version), THQ (Company) (European GBA version), or Ignition Entertainment (European DS and PSP versions).

It later received a Japanese-only sequel, known as Puyo Puyo Fever 2 (Game) (or Puyo Puyo Fever Chu!), as well as several mobile phone releases. The PC version also received multiple re-releases, including a special limited 2003 downloadable version known as Puyo Puyo Fever: Puyo Puyo 15-Shuunen Carnival-ban (which features multiple guest characters, including Sonic the Hedgehog (Character), Akira Yuki (Character), Sakura Shinguji (Character), and AiAi (Character)). The Xbox version was later made backwards-compatible with the Xbox 360 (Platform) and was sold on its digital storefront in 2007.

Puyo Pop Fever is notable both for being Sega's final Dreamcast release and for being one of the few games in the series to receive an overseas release in its original form (as most prior to that were heavily localized). Mini-games based on this game were included in both Sega SuperStars and Sega Superstars Tennis (Game).

Gameplay

Puyos must be aligned four-in-a-row of a single color.

Puyo Pop Fever stars Amitie (Character), who is attending a school of magic. She is learning how to use Puyos to cast spells. Puyos are jelly-like creatures of several different colors. Puyos fall in a game field (similar to game fields in other puzzle games, like Tetris (Game) or Dr. Mario), where they must be aligned depending on color. Four Puyos of the same color in a row will cause those four to "pop." Then a "spell" is cast onto the other player's field, causing grey Puyos (or "garbage" Puyos) to fall.

Puyo Pop Fever adds a Fever Mode (as the gameplay detailed above is identical to that of Puyo Pop). There is a bar in the middle of the screen that must be filled up to trigger Fever Mode. In Fever Mode, there are several pre-arranged puzzles in which the player must send in one chain of Puyos to erase (or pop) all of the Puyos on the screen. This continues until the time runs out.

Puyo Pop Fever also has a multiplayer component, for which it was most praised. This mode is similar to the single player, except there are two players. The multiplayer mode was especially praised for the Nintendo DS version, which supported two to eight players at a time (previous games only allowed two to four players).

Group Puyo

Along with the standard two-Puyo pair, the game introduces three new complex types of pieces:

Three Puyos in an L-shape, either with all three Puyos having the same color, or with the piece split into two colors (with the two making the longer side having the same color).
Four Puyos in a square shape, either with the piece split into two colors (forming two halves) or all four Puyos having the same color as a large Puyo that splits upon landing. Instead of rotating, the large Puyo changes its color.

Game Modes

RunRun Course - Beginner Course (3 stages)
WakuWaku Course - Intermediate Course (8 stages)
HaraHara Course - Advanced Course (8 stages)
Endless Fever - Score Attack mode where players are in perpetual Fever Mode and have a limited amount of time to score as much as they can (with higher clears adding to the timer).

Added in Console version

Endless Mission - Score Attack mode where players have a limited amount of time to complete tasks given to them (such as clearing a certain amount of puyos at one time), which add time when complete.
Endless Original - Marathon mode where players earn as much score as they can, with the game's difficulty level increasing through play, before topping out.

Characters

Arle Nadja
Onion Pixy
Oshare Bones
Hohow Bird
Amitie
Dongurigaeru
Raffine
Rider
Frankensteins
Tarutaru
Prince of Ocean
Klug
Accord
Yu
Popoi (final boss, unlockable for play in Versus Mode)
Carbuncle (hidden boss, unlockable for play in Versus Mode)

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