Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S review – pleasant, playful puzzling

Tetris is one among my all-time favourite video games. Issues cannot get significantly better than stacking colourful blocks collectively at more and more manic speeds. Or so I assumed, earlier than I began enjoying Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S and found the unusual pleasure of puyo battles.

Regardless of my love of cute anime video games and puzzles, I would by no means tried a Puyo Puyo title previous to this overview, however I’ve all the time been curious. Fortunately, Sega rereleased its Tetris crossover sequel completely for the Nintendo Swap 2, so I made a decision to leap in for the primary time. As it is a rerelease, the story is virtually the identical as 2020’s sport, which we lined in our Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 overview, but it surely’s nonetheless new to me.

Following on from the primary Puyo Puyo Tetris sport, the worlds of Puyo and Tetris are separated as soon as extra, and Ringo, Tee, and their companions cannot keep in mind something about one another. Regardless, they staff as much as chase down a brand new antagonist, Marle, throughout Suzuran, Primp City, and the S.S Tetra, recruiting allies and participating in Puyo Puyo and Tetris battles alongside the best way. As Ruby talked about in her unique overview, the story and interactions can get slightly repetitive over time, however the character designs are cute, it is absolutely voiced, and the writing is fairly humorous. Plus, you possibly can skip cutscenes to get straight to the puzzles when you want.

As I mentioned earlier than, I like Tetris, however Puyo Puyo is unknown territory for me, so I confronted a little bit of a studying curve getting used to chaining combos. Fortunately, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S has a whole part devoted to classes for each puzzle video games, so I’ve had a browse and slowly my Puyo abilities have improved. The battles are additionally slightly difficult to get your head round at first, as you need to stability your puzzling ability with characters’ particular talents and merchandise modifiers, however every stage comes with a beneficial loadout, and you’ll swap sport modes if, like me, you are extra comfy with one than the opposite.

Whereas I like a problem in my puzzle video games, I do not get pleasure from bashing my head towards a wall to progress, and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S has a bunch of options to make experiencing the Journey mode enjoyable slightly than irritating. In addition to the battle mode choices I simply talked about, you possibly can change the issue stage of fights everytime you need, or simply skip a stage solely if it is supplying you with a tough time. I adore it when video games acknowledge that there is no disgrace in enjoying on simple mode or skipping ranges. Video games are supposed to be enjoyable, on the finish of the day.

Puyo Puyo’s character design is one among my favourite issues concerning the sequence, so I actually get pleasure from attending to customise my profile with totally different avatars, frames, and backgrounds to match my character. I have been enjoying as Yu and Rei, the pair of ghosts who have been new to Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S, and my profile could be very cute to match them. Sadly, I’ve not been in a position to present it off to many individuals, as each time I’ve tried to play on-line, I have not been capable of finding a match.

This can be a actual disgrace as a result of, though beating a CPU will be rewarding at first, I’d a lot slightly check my abilities towards strangers on-line and climb the Tetris ranks. I am undecided whether or not that is all the way down to a scarcity of selling for the Nintendo Swap 2 model of the sport, or if the meant viewers is pleased to stay to the unique model from 5 years in the past, however not with the ability to have interaction with an enormous a part of the sport is an enormous disadvantage.

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S’s main new function for the Swap 2 is the assist for mouse controls. Usually, I have been a fairly large advocate for the potential of mouse controls for the Swap 2, particularly as you should utilize a third-party USB mouse when the console is docked, however I am not fairly certain they work right here. This sport’s management scheme for docked and handheld play is so intuitive already that attempting to adapt to a completely new, single Pleasure-Con system feels pointless and fiddly. After all, some professional gamers on the market would possibly discover that mouse controls give them larger precision and sooner response occasions, however I extremely doubt it utilizing the Pleasure-Con mouse. I would a lot want an arcade joystick peripheral for Tetris to emulate its origins.

General, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S is a enjoyable and lighthearted puzzle sport with a variety of sport modes and multiplayer potential – the native multiplayer remains to be a blast, even when on-line is not viable proper now. It is the identical worth digitally as the unique sport for the Nintendo Swap, however with a few new options, so when you’re after a brand new addition to your Nintendo Swap 2, it’s best to give it a go.

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