Puyo Pop
A Neo Geo Pocket port of Puyo Puyo Tsuu, licensed to SNK by Sega, was released in North America and Europe as Puyo Pop. Unlike previous English Puyo Puyo games, the NGPC Puyo Pop retains both the character…
Puyo Pop is an arcade developed by Compile, released 22 July 1999 on Neo Geo Pocket Color.
What Puyo Pop is
Puyo Pop is an arcade game developed by Compile and released in 1999. It was published by Sega. It is available on Neo Geo Pocket Color only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
As opposed to the first game's linear Scenario mode, Tsu's main mode is a tower where Arle Nadja selects opponents to battle via roulette. Each "floor" of the tower has an EXP total that the player must reach in order to advance. If the player defeats all of a floor's opponents without meeting the goal, one final opponent will appear. If, after defeating this extra opponent, the player still fails to meet the goal, Arle is booted from the tower and the game ends. The EXP goals vary from version to version; for example, Super Puyo Puyo Tsu requires twice as many points to clear the first floor as the arcade or Mega Drive versions.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Puyo Puyo series
Puyo Pop is the 52nd of 102 entries we hold in the Puyo Puyo series. The next entry was Puyo Puyo Gaiden: Puyo Wars in 1999. Its critic score of 84 is 9 points above the series average of 76. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Puyo Pop holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 87% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Puyo Pop launched on 22 July 1999, within three weeks of Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, Vandal Hearts II, Dino Crisis and Croc 2. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, Vandal Hearts II, Dino Crisis, Croc 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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