Next up on my SNES Online is a decidedly unexpected addition to the launch library. This game's presence in the service, to me, signals that Nintendo is willing to go further for the SNES than they did for NES Online. BACKGROUND: I've already explained my brief history with the Puyo Puyo series in my blog entry on Puyo Puyo Champions, and since then, my interest in the series has grown. As such, I was delighted to see that Super Puyo Puyo 2 was a launch title for SNES Online. Now, what I didn't know was that this game was originally never released outside Japan, which piqued my interest even more. SUMMARY: Puyo Puyo 2 was so wildly popular back in the day that the rulesets carried over into the later games, so if you've played any of the more recent Puyo Puyo games, nothing about Super Puyo Puyo 2 should be surprising. The core gameplay of dropping and clearing Puyos to send garbage to your opponent survived to this day for a reason, and that reason was in large part to this game. Remember when I said that this game was never released outside Japan? Well, that brings us to the actual culture shock of the game: it was never localized. Everything is in Japanese. While I recognize hiragana/katakana (the latter less so than the former), I don't actually know the language, and I had to stumble around the menus to figure out what was what. After the initial confusion, though, I was good to go. There are a number of multiplayer modes (which I should try with other people at some point), a single player story mode that I'm sure I'd appreciate more if I understood a lick of Japanese, as well as various options to adjust the gameplay. Facing off against CPUs in this game is a terrifying ordeal, because they play the game like a goddamn supercomputer and wreck your shit in 15 seconds. VERDICT: Language barrier aside, Super Puyo Puyo 2 is a good place to start if you want to get into the Puyo Puyo series. There aren't any fancy gimmicks, so you get to focus on the core Puyo-stacking gameplay, and there are a variety of single player or multiplayer options that you can get into to hone your skills. If you want to spare yourself the trouble of figuring out the Japanese menus, Puyo Puyo Champions is worth a look. More on that via the blog entry I linked at the top of this post. - end -
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