Welcome to our SEGA AGES Puyo Puyo review. Launching at the same time as SEGA AGES Space Harrier, this version of Puyo Puyo has been lovingly ported to Nintendo’s hybrid console as part of the Sega classics system known as SEGA AGES.

SEGA AGES Puyo Puyo

Platforms: Nintendo Switch

Reviewed On: Nintendo Switch

Developer: M2

Publisher: SEGA

Multiplayer: Up To 2 Players

Available: 22nd August 2019

Price: £5.99 (U.K), $7.99 (U.S)

Age Rating: PEGI 3 (UK/EU), E (U.S)

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While there’s not much of a story going on here, there are little skits before each round. These usually show your character meeting the opponent and saying something that sometimes is slightly humorous.

The gameplay premise of Puyo Puyo is a rather simple one that sees falling sets of different colored Puyos dropping down into your vertically placed rectangular box. Each time you match colors in a set of four or more you take out that set but the best way to do this is to create chains that will enable you to take out many at a time, which is sort of the key to being a good player.

Like similar games in this genre, the idea is to prevent your Puyos from reaching the top of the screen first. Whichever player allows their Puyos to reach the top first is the loser, while the winner is obviously the player whose Puyos haven’t reached the top in an uncontrollable fashion.

In words, it looks easy, but in practice, Puyo Puyo is a very challenging game. I have lost within the first few levels in arcade mode several times and don’t get me started on the online multiplayer mode. To be good at this game you will need practice, especially practice with chaining. Luckily it doesn’t automatically force you to back to beginning if you die too many times. Instead, you get infinite retries as long as you press the insert coin button before the timer runs out.

Thankfully the SEGA AGES system also allows you to create save points at any time meaning if you’ve got really far but need to come off you can save the game and reload it in the same state, later on, meaning you don’t have to worry about losing progress.

As well as the different colored Puyos, there also some blank ones, which are basically a pain in the bum but a key part of the gameplay. These block all or part of your current color matches and can only be wiped out creating new color matches of four or more above them or next to them.

If you want to play with a buddy in the same room you can thanks to the game’s multiplayer. It also features an online multiplayer mode and a global scoreboard so you can try out against other players and see how you rank.

Graphically, the game looks stunning, considering it was released way back in 1991. The arcade-style graphics are still here but have been enhanced to look good on both the Switch display and a T.V. There are also a few graphics settings you can mess around with such as the fit, background and display effect.

In conclusion, SEGA AGES Puyo Puyo is a great little puzzle battle game, especially if you love a challenge. Enhanced for the Switch with better graphics, online play, and new setting options, Puyo Puyo certainly has shown itself to be a worthy port for the SEGA AGES collection.

That concludes our SEGA AGES Puyo Puyo review. If you’d like to purchase this game, check out the links below.

Nintendo eShop U.K

Nintendo eShop U.S