AmethystLeslie

Picked Japan cuz I love the characters of the Puyo series. EU one is also pretty good and probably better since it has a better balance of things going on.

I prefer digital, but physical for me is something I do for singleplayer experiences, so when I'm done, I don't have to put the cart back in. If I buy a digital game, it's something meant for me to just open for a little while and play to pass the time. Not even for progression's sake, I'm just exploring a Minecraft world in Creative, I'm just doing repeated Endurance runs in Puyo Puyo Tetris for the heck of it.

I've noticed that for certain games I got physically like Splatoon and Pokemon, the cart stays inside, that's just its home now for the next 500+ hours. Unless I decide to switch it out, of course.

Y'all are feeling actual emotions outta these tracks? I feel nothing for them at this point.

Why haven't I played?

Simple. I don't feel like it. Also I got invested in a couple gachas and I'd rather play those.

"What do you think of the new title?"

I'm sure it'll make more sense in the story.

Eh, sure, I'll allow them to exist.

Will I buy them? No.

Played Metroid 2 cuz my babysitter had a copy of it and I had no idea where to go. I liked the music, tho.

Primarina is beautiful, and is a special nuke in battle. However, when I like a Pokemon, I "like" the whole line, even if I actually don't, the final evolution is pretty much the best part, so what I'm saying is that I like Popplio and Brionne as well, and, well, I actually do. The designs are great, they're very cute, they eventually become Primarina.

I know Popplio was considered the underdog during pre-release SM, but I never really saw it as that. I just picked that one cuz I thought it was the cutest. Never did I imagine that it was the least liked of the starters.

So what DOES that say about me? Do I like things that are beautiful and strong? Am I the beautiful and strong one? I mean, I'd believe that one if I ever did anything productive...

I just want Pokemon breeding. But even then... I don't know if I truly wanna go down that road again.

Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 defined so much for me, so that's pretty much a major Switch milestone.

It's not just me, it was a major time for both series (Tetris had some backlash after Ultimate, and Puyo Puyo had rarely seen English localizations), and for early Switch owners back when there wasn't much out yet. This was one of the earliest online party games on Switch, and people had a good time and it revitalized the Puyo Puyo fanbase.

I'm a simple Nintendo fan. I see "Direct", I get excited. I always look forward to them.

"it's just Tetris with more colours and annoying characters, really"

"If you're going to hear the voice lines a lot, and they're all really irritating"

MMMMMMM I don't agree with those statements very much.

Look, maybe it sounds harsh to me, but I pretty much had the opposite experience with this game where I played the story mode and fell in love with everyone. I got used to the voice lines, and honestly, the characters and charm is like the best part of the series.

In the case of Pokemon, I would say to someone, "hey, start with whatever looks good. They're all good in some ways, even if the overall quality varies a bit." The bias in me also says to get a 3DS, since you can play MOST of the games on there, unless you want to specifically play Gen 3. I do wanna see someone who's never played a Pokemon game start from Gen 1 and play in order. Just to see their PoV, ideally not colored by too many opinions around the internet of "this gen sucks/no this gen sucks".

For Puyo Puyo, I once saw a tweet about which games to start with, and I pretty much agree with them. If you're interested for the Tetris gameplay, Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 is a good place to start, followed by PPT2. If you're interested in the gameplay, Puyo Puyo Champions is THE place to go. If you're interested in the characters, start with the fan translation for 20th Anniversary, although Tetris 1 isn't a bad place either.

If you have NSO, you already have a Puyo game! Super Puyo Puyo 2 is on the SNES app and is a better game than Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (and that's not me giving a hot take or being snooty; This is an actual fact) since you can actually counter garbage. Shame it's not translated, but it's fairly accessible.

I see the name "Shez" and can only think of Schezo from Puyo Puyo.

I would say Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 is a very funny game. The sequel is less funny (cuz it goes in a more serious direction at times), but it still has its moments.

You can play a character in PPT2 where their alt voice is just uwu-speak. There's your 40 bucks.

Never played Double Dash, but I've played all the others cuz they were either rereleased or I played their native console from Wii onwards. Didn't even have the version of the Wii that can play Gamecube games.

Honestly, Summer Game Fest tends to get me really bored, since like 30 games get shown and i'm lucky to find even one game that looks interesting.

I think it just needs more Nintendo.

I just hope I like it more than BDSP, which I ended up not liking due to lack of difficulty until Cynthia and just... general boredom.

Ouch, I was looking forward to this one a lot out of all the games coming out around this time, even as a very casual DR fan.

"Would you buy this soundtrack if it was released glob-"

YES.

I want this on iTunes like yesterday.

Clearly more people need to play Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary.

Up until SwSh, I had the opinion that whatever was the most recent game is the best game. That's when the Pokemon themselves are updated to have the most updated moveset, most updated mechanics, QoL improvements that make going back even one game just feels dated, everything is tweaked to be just a little bit better. The story itself matters almost nothing to the overall quality for me, unless it does (by which I mean it's actually worth a damn and not a cookie cutter plot), then it's instantly a higher tier than most others.

You ever think about how Puyo Puyo Fever 2 was never on GameCube? I think about it a lot.

It was on DS tho.

The biggest crime in the poll is that we're forced to pick ONE option.

They're all consoles, although G&Ws seem more like simple toys to me compared to the DS or Gamecube, etc.

I think we should at least use "home console" and "handheld console" to refer to them if you want separate labels.

Arle no Bouken: Mahou no Jewel is in legal hell, last I heard. It's a mon-catching game for GBC trying to cash in on the Pokemon hype, but is a part of the Madou Monogatari/Puyo Puyo series. The thing is that the Madou games are with D4 Enterprises and Sega owns "anything with the word Puyo in the title", and Arle no Bouken is neither of those.

Hear me out: Puyo Puyo.

Pocket Puyo Puyo 1, 2, 3, and 4, that one tactics game, the mon-collecting game, Puyo Pop GBA, and Fever 1 GBA.

I was a 2000s kid playing her parents' NES. I only played it a handful of times, but Mario 1 and Duck Hunt were my first games.

Admittedly, my time playing video games during that era was so sporadic that I didn't REALLY get into gaming until the late Wii era.

Yes, I've still seen 3D All-Stars copies in stores. I've never seen a single Mario Game and Watch, even before they were discontinued.

I've put up with Pokemon games. I thought Pokemon Alpha Sapphire was okay, but it's my most played game of all time at 1370+ hours.

Paper Mario Sticker Star holds a special place in my heart cuz it got me into RPGs with its simple turn-based battle system.

Imma be real, I think the games I'm looking forward to the most are the Danganronpa ports. Maybe Crusin' Blast and Mario Party Superstars as well. Most of the big ones I know they aren't for me, but that's okay.

Those designs would look cool on notebook covers, I was hoping there would be one when looking at that collector's edition, but I guess it was not meant to be.

I'll get them at some point, maybe sometime this year, or next year, or maybe sometime this decade, I don't really care when.

Honestly, this is more accurate to the actual game than the old screen.

I play it almost daily, I really like this game. This is the most fun I've had in Mario Kart in forever!

Puyo Puyo Champions got an update recently that adds more accessibility features, one of which is to change game speed.

Puyo Puyo Tetris and What the Golf are the first things I think of when I think of funny games. The former has all the cutscenes on YouTube if you want to enjoy it that way.

"Have you been satisfied with its output for the Switch? What do you think of the Switch’s library so far?"

Yeah, I'm good, really. I'm cool with 3rd parties and indies picking up the slack as long as they look good and play well.

Can we just talk about how Pokemon Crystal was 40th place?

I haven't been around gaming long enough to go further than the earlier half of the 2010s. I would still say 2015, cuz that was when the Wii U offerings that year were super slim. Even on the 3DS side, I wasn't that interested, but I've heard some good things.

I had Pokemon Alpha Sapphire, I was set for that year (it came out the November prior, so I spent my 2015-16 just playing that game). Looking back, I thought that Nintendo offering very little that piqued my interest was just me, and in some cases it was, but more often than not, it was indeed the games themselves that looked bad anyway.

Puyo remakes plz.

I'm not overly bothered by this, but it does suck that there was some lie or miscommunication related to this. I also went in with a level 23 and died instantly to Klara, but I made a team with it anyway. I had a level 100 to help with catching Pokemon and just went on from there.

Oof, I was actually looking forward to this one.

@Northwind I can confirm, too, of the Labelle Sunglasses.

This is legit one my favorite games of all time, like, my God, why didn't we get any of these games sooner?

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I REALLY want that journal, you have no idea.

It's a shame that certain Target stores won't get this bonus, tho.

Arle Nadja from Puyo Puyo. That's literally my one hopeful.

I just wanna hear about an update that fixes known issues and overhauls the Y-comm.

THIS GAME IS GOOD PLEASE PLAY IT.