We make a trend now, huh? It’s never long before Puyo Puyo Tetris go on the stage. This was the case in 2017 with the launch of The Original Switch, when a 2014 world release Puyo Puyo Tetris (which was published on Wii U and 3DS in Japan) was one of the very first games available for the Nintendo hybrid at the time.
It was undoubtedly a moment of the “good place, of the good time” for the cross franchise, attractive for the occasional fans of Tetris, the game game game and the massive influx of players looking for more things to play on their new brilliant system. Above all, he helped reintroduce Puyo Puyo to the larger world market after a long interruption in the location of the franchise.
Now it seems that Sega aims to recover this success of lightning in a bottle with Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S – an improved port of the 2020s Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 – As one of the very first games available for Switch 2. Unfortunately, some bizarre choices inside and surrounding this version prevent it from shining as brilliant as previous entries.
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S takes over which once again crushed the worlds of Puyo Puyo and Tetris and launches in a handful of new features, many of which are designed to enjoy the new feature of Switch 2.. It looks like a fairly solid socket on paper, but a deeper dive in what In fact New, this time, leaves this unjustified reissue.
In our Switch Review of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2Scully found that it was a worthy suite filled with means of discovering the two giants holders of the genre of the pastry puzzle. All this is always true in this version, which retains the richness of modes, unlocking, the original customization options, etc. Whether it is a simple alternating battle between Puyo Puyo and Tetris, a mode where the tiny puyos fall from the sky, a quick race to erase 40 lines of Tetris, or skills battles that completely change the game by introducing elements and capacities Light RPG, Puyo Puipyo Tetris 2s does an excellent job by keeping this game of game game game.
Its lifting is reinforced by the adventure mode, which offers a light story featuring Puyo Puyo distribution and a bunch of chewing levels, as well as its multiplayer modes, which transform it into a fairly entertaining party game for the right crowd.
Unlike all this juicy return content, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 adds only one new mode: Puyo Tetris Double. This introduces 2v2 battles to the mixture, in which each team must control and drop two puyos or tetriminos simultaneously on the same board. Above all, your pieces have the physics of the collisions between them, which means that you need to coordinate carefully with your partner to stay outside the others and drop the pieces in the right places.
It is a solid addition that can lead to a fun multiplayer chaos, while you are desperately asking your friend to please, pleaseLog their boring square block away so that you can nail a T-Spin in the right place.
That said, the Double Puyo Tetris mode looks like a little add to the biggest scheme of the game. This feeling is only strengthened if we consider that the mode is limited to a selected number of game styles (compared to party and fusion) and that you absolutely need other players. While Puyo Tetris Double can be played with partners and opponents of the processor, you cognie your head against a wall trying to coordinate without words with AI. As such, solo players are actually left out in the cold with just any new substantial content in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.
Apart from the same new mode focused on multiplayer, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 is quite light on improvements. The game certainly looks better on the new equipment, with a resolution bump to keep things beautiful and crisp, and it is gentle butter. This version also adds the management of Gameshare and native GameChat, allowing you to share your copy of the wireless and online game with friends.
Then there is the incorporation of the new camera and the mouse fashion capacities of the Switch 2.. Players can use a connected camera to superimpose their face on various parts of the board during the gameplay – a small fun addition, but ultimately superfluous.
I have nothing so nice to say about the new mouse controls, which seem really horrible and imprecise for the gameplay Puyo Puyo and Tetris compared to the traditional contribution of the GamePad. Your mileage can vary, but it remembers the gadgets of shoe and agitation touch that tormented DS and Wii days. The only saving grace in my eyes is that it is purely an optional method of input and can be considered a little strange novelty.
Well … that’s all. Aside from a few other careful adjustments to experience, the features described above are really the only new things available in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. The game has the impression that it was just slightly Updated and modified for the release on Switch 2 compared to his embodiment of Switch, which makes the Liberation and Pricing Strategy of Sega for this title all the more confusing.
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S continues the frustrating trend of Sega not to offer an upgrade path for his Switch 2 games. Just like with titles like Generations of Sonic X Shadow And Raidou Remastered: the mystery of the soulless armyYou will have to buy the Switch 2 version of the game at a high price, even if you have a copy on Switch 1. There may be a reason to do so for the other aforementioned titles, which see substantial performance bumps on Switch 2, but this is not the case for Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. very Little to anyone played at Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 the first time.
Even beyond the flagrant pricing strategy, dividing Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 of his unlikely counterpart resembles a misstep which could seriously affect the longevity of this game from a multiplayer perspective. There is no cross game between titles, which means that online experience and players’ base are even more segmented than before. In the days immediately after the launch, I tried several times to find online games and I managed to find an opponent every time. This could potentially improve because more and more people plunge into the Switch 2 ecosystem in the coming days, but it looks like a dark omen for the community and the future of this version.
Conclusion
More than most, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S is a difficult outing to put a score. It is by no means a bad game – in fact, it is a fairly decent game which is filled to the brim with modes and features for long -term puzzle lovers for the long term. However, this has everything to do with the solid skeleton of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 of origin and barely nothing to do with the minimum additions made to this Re-Release 2 switch.
For new arrivals in the series or those who missed its original release, there is a lot of fun having here. For fans who already have the original version on Switch, I find it difficult to think of a bigger waste of Switch 2 game funds than that.
