Sega Drops Another Small Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S Patch For Switch 2

This is my most played Switch 2 game, as it has the best marathon mode for me to play on a handheld.

This should've been a paid upgrade for Switch 1 players and it's ridiculous it's not even crossplay with the Switch 1 version online :-/

I do love me some PuyoPuyoTetris. As does my mother. I've bought PS3, PS4, Switch and Steam editions of both PuyoTetris 1 and 2 ..
I don't think I can honestly bring myself to pay for it again.
... And adding a Mouse mode certainly isn't going to make me do so.

@Suketoudara All of the launch games should have upgrade paths but this one not having one is especially ridiculous. I’d honestly bet they’d make more money charging £5 to upgrade for people who already own it than they will selling it at full price.

@Sambuc I am similarly enjoying my time with it, even if the AI can become unexpectedly aggressive during rounds.

This game is an insult to all the Puyo Puyo fans who have been waiting nearly a decade for a proper new game, and all they keep doing is rehashing the crossover again and again. The main series is never coming back, is it?

@missingno_fgc Puyo Puyo Puzzle Pop exists, (but it’s only on Apple Arcade).

@The21zonz That game is so dead that Sega had to fake the online with bots. I'm not acknowledging its existence until they put it on a platform people will actually play.

PPT2 is in my top ten Switch games as far as hours played, but why can't I upgrade? I don't really see a reason to pay for the full game again, especially since the Switch 1 games are both sitting in my library.

@Suketoudara Absolutely agree. It's hard to justify paying full price for what is essentially just Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 from the original Switch, repackaged with a new mode and a few Switch 2 features.

Release an upgrade path, then we'll talk.

I wish there was an update that allowed people in the same room to select their face on the camera, Mario Kart-style. Would be fun to have that feature locally.

Imagine updating a fake game to be even more fake.

Can we have an update that brings back O's Alt-Voice from PPT1 please? The PPT2 one is all kinda of "normal", and I just don't like it.

Pi-Pi-Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!

Huh, it's interesting that NL is updating an older update article for a newer update, that's kind of interesting. Anyway, it's nice to see that more bugs in this game were fixed, it looks like a pretty fun game, but I can see why many people are upset about the original not having an upgrade path.

@ShieldHero I'd prefer it if NL did it like this going forward as a sort of changelog for each game.

Really wish they would tell what they fixed.

@missingno_fgc FWIW, Tetris fans haven't gotten a new dedicated full Tetris game since Effect in 2018 and DLC in 2020. The latest brand new Tetris we have is 2024's Time Warp, which is just a local-only mode (so no online, no bots, no progression to work towards) that still feels unfinished in a collection of other games that have already existed.

@Kilroy You're forgetting that TGM4 just came out, and that's huge considering how long TGM's been dormant for. You've got Effect, you've got 99, you've got Forever. You've also got Tetr.io and JStris. And all of those games are available in English.

The last time a mainline Puyo Puyo game was released outside of Japan was Fever in 2004. There was a time when I thought that PPT succeeding in the west would lead to bigger and better things for the series, would lead to actual mainline games getting localized. The reason I'm frustrated is because that never happened and instead we just got ctrl-c ctrl-v for the fourth time.

Compared to how we're doing, y'all seem to have it pretty good. I wish Puyo Puyo could have a fraction of everything Tetris has right now, I wish I could trade places with you.

@missingno_fgc Okay, didn't realize your game drought went that far back. Yikes. Still, you cannot count fan-made games (Tetr.io and JStris). If Puyo fans are so thirsty for a new one, theoretically they would have made a new one themselves by now. It's been happening in other genres for decades.

And I did forget about TGM, but that's because the series doesn't interest me. I have Master mode in several Tetris games already and people have basically said the main attraction of TGM is Master mode, so I don't understand the appeal.

This feels like such a ripoff for anyone who bought the game originally. It's not like the game really needed Switch 2 enhancement anyways.

@Kilroy I can count Tetr.io and JStris, because they're signficantly more active than any Puyo game. Right now the biggest problem facing Puyo is that Sega keeps splitting the playerbase. PuyoVS2 was a fanmade client that existed a long time ago and died off, I don't think a new client has a chance of succeeding right now because it would just further split things.

Tetris is able to keep multiple games active at once because Tetris is orders of magnitude more popular. What Puyo needs right now is just One True Definitive Game With Crossplay™, anything else makes the current situation worse. Puyo needs something that can actually grow its audience rather than a fork that only the most dedicated players will even look into.

(Also TGM is just a better game than Guideline, full stop, but that's a conversation I'm not particularly invested in right now. I'll just say if you're not happy with the zillion nearly identical Guideline games available to you and want something different to play, TGM actually offers something new and different.)

Still no way to upgrade, no thanks.