Puyo Puyo (Game Series)

The first game in the series, Puyo Puyo , was developed by Compile in 1991. She used characters from the role-playing game Madou Monogatari , developed by the same companies in 1989. Subsequently, the game was ported to a number of other systems.

In 1992, Sega received partial rights to the series and released a version of the game in the form of an arcade slot machine , which led to an increase in the popularity of the series. The game is also licensed by Nintendo . Sega and Nintendo have released versions of the game for their game consoles with characters from their popular franchises - Sonic the Hedgehog and Kirby .

Subsequent games in the series were developed and published by various companies. In 2002, with the closure of Compile, the development of the series was continued by the Sonic Team internal studio, which retained partial rights to the series.

Since 2001, games in the series have also been released under the name Puyo Pop , for countries outside of Japan.

Since January 12, 2017, it has been announced that Puyo Puyo Tetris will be released outside countries on the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 . It is believed that the localized version will include a new scoring and interface in English.

The gameplay of the games in the series resembles the Tetris and Columns games. The playing field is a glass in which multicolored round translucent creatures with eyes fall, called Pue. The player must fold them in the same color so that they touch. When you create a chain of four or more Puyo, they disappear from the playing field. The peculiarity of the game is the ability to create series - the player can arrange Puyo in such a way that when creating a chain and the disappearance of one group of creatures, the next series will form. Another feature is the presence of the game mode against the computer or the second player, where when creating a series with one player, the empty Puei fall into the glass of the other, disappearing only when the group of colored creatures adjacent to them disappears.

At the moment, only 25 games of the Puyo Puyo series have been released, of which 8 are games in the platformer genre. In the main series there are only 17 games. The game Super Nazo Puyo: Rulue no Roux has a genre of puzzle and cooking game where you need to correctly position the balls of Puyo to make the dish delicious. Puyo Puyo DA! is the only game in the series that does not have a puzzle genre but a music game , and Puyo Puyo BOX is the only game in the series not published by Sega and the last one developed by Compile . A total of 12 games were released in the US and Europe, while Japan released only 24 games. On February 18, 2019, it was announced that the game Puyo Puyo Champions would be released outside the countries of Japan, and the release of this game in the U.S. and Europe took place on May 7, 2019.

• Since January 1, 1992, the anime Puyo Puyo TV has been continuously released on Japanese television. Consists of more than 1000 episodes. Also, the anime is broadcast in the USA on the NBC channel, in Russia , in the CIS countries , in Europe and other countries. According to this anime, only 5 films were released.
• Until 2003, Arly Nadia was the protagonist of the Puyo Puyo series of games. From 2003 to the present, Arly is a minor character, because new characters have appeared - Emitty (since 2003) and Ringo Ando (since 2007). The protagonist of the series of games is Ringo.

• FloboPuyo is cross-platform and free .
• Amoebax is cross-platform and free. It is focused on children, as it has the appropriate design and the degree of difficulty of competing with a computer.
• Xpuyopuyo is free for Linux . The graphics are implemented on legacy GTK + libraries of the first version, so it may seem unusual.

• Flobopuyo
• List of Tetris game variations