A 5-year-old recreation repackaged in a $40 go well with.
Virtually 5 years in the past, I reviewed Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 for the Nintendo Change. If you wish to know in regards to the fundamentals of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S, a launch title for the Change 2 in 2025, I implore you to go learn that overview as a result of, nicely, it’s mainly the very same recreation. The Change 2 model does an amazing job of leveraging new system options, whether or not it’s the novel mouse control-focused mode or the unbelievable use of GameShare that permits you to play multiplayer throughout a number of screens regionally and on-line. However on the finish of the day, it is a $40 model of a recreation that first got here out 5 years in the past on a system that’s backwards appropriate with the Change 2 and was as little as $8 on the Change eShop in April.
It seems from the skin that among the Change 1->Change 2 upgrades aren’t the cleanest prospects. Nintendo is ready to do $10 and $20 upgrades and repackaged retail variations of their Change 1 video games and even some impactful free updates. For a 3rd get together, it looks like a clumsier course of, particularly in case your recreation isn’t from 2025. A $40 barely enhanced model of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S may need been one of the best that Sega may do, however even when GameShare is tremendous neat, it’s onerous to totally suggest this model to anybody however these determined for a model new Change 2 recreation or sicko die-hards for quirky puzzle video games with some neat RPG mechanics.
Puyo Tetris Doubles, the newly added multiplayer mode, is admittedly neat, nevertheless it has landed for me as extra of a novelty than a must-play. The 2-vs-two mode has every staff with their very own board and items, desperately making an attempt to speak with one another to successfully drop their items to finish chains and win. Regardless of this being the brand new hotness, I discovered myself revisiting the foolish story in Journey Mode and the cool depth in Talent Battles as an alternative of toying extra with mouse controls and the brand new multiplayer mode. And guess what? Puyo Puyo Tetris continues to be an amazing idea. Puyo Puyo and Tetris are nonetheless unbelievable puzzle video games and the fusion of the 2 is oftentimes electrical. The growth of multiplayer by way of GameShare is superior. Stll, the worth and price of entry for this Change 2 recreation is a barrier for entry. It is a nice recreation let down by the tough realities of a brand new console launch.
