SEGA has uploaded short demo videos of each of the 18 rule modes for the upcoming 3DS title Puyo Puyo Chronicle. While we’ve read much about the RPG-styled main scenario of Puyo Puyo Chronicle, the game will still offer many options for the classic head-to-head Puyo Puyo fun, and in a variety of ways.
Watch the demo videos below! A short description accompanies each one. Be aware that certain modes have to be purchased within the game’s shop (not the eShop.) Additionally, check out the added preview and ruleset pages on SEGA’s website if you so desire.
- Puyo Puyo: Play alone or with up to three other people. The classic mode. Garbage cannot be offset.
- Big Puyo: Play alone or with up to three other people. Classic Puyo Puyo, but with each Puyo being a larger version of a normal one, with the board remaining the same size.
- Big Puyo Rush: Play alone or with up to three other people. Players juggle the need to combat incoming garbage and then inflicting garbage on the opponent, using giant Puyo.
- Puyo Puyo Tsu: Play alone or with up to three other people. A mode based on Puyo Puyo Tsu.
- Puyo Puyo SUN: Play alone or with up to three other people. A mode based on Puyo Puyo Tsu. Sun Puyo sometimes appear in place of garbage, but unlike garbage they amplify the power of the player’s chains.
- Riddle Puyo: Play alone or with up to three other people. A mode oriented around completing tasks specified by the game, rather than using garbage against an opponent.
- Excavation: Play alone or with up to three other people. Primary goal is to reach the star at the bottom of the board: once achieved, it will send massive amounts of garbage to an opponent.
- Small Puyo Excavation: Play alone or with up to three other people. Variation on Excavation wherein there are three colors, but the Puyo are smaller, thus effectively expanding the individual spaces within the grid.
- Quartet: Play alone or with up to three other people. Four Puyo are dropped at a time rather than two.
- Big Bang: Play alone or with up to three other people. Within a set amount of time (a “round”, a la fighting games), individual players must clear through boards as quickly as possible. At the end of a round, each player’s efforts are graded, and the worst player receives damage to their HP bar. These rounds continue until only one player is left remaining with HP (or your HP runs out, if you’re playing 1-player.)
- Block: Play alone or with up to three other people. Steel blocks cover the grids of all players in randomized patterns, but otherwise this is classic Puyo Puyo.
- Ice blocks: Play alone or with up to three other people. Garbage are replaced by frozen Puyo, which later defrost and turn into normal Puyo.
- Puyo Puyo Fever : Play alone or with up to three other people. Fill up the Fever gauge
- Always Fever: Play alone or with up to three other people. Similar to Puyo Puyo Fever, but with all players in permanent Fever state.
- Active: Play alone or with up to three other people. Similar to basic Puyo Puyo, but players are allowed to continue placing Puyo while chains dissolve.
- Revolution: Play alone or with up to three other people. The grid periodically, but any chains produced as a result are enhanced in effect.
- Foresight: Play alone or with up to three other people. A mode based on Puyo Puyo Tsu wherein players can see the next four queyed Puyo rather than two.
- Skill Battle: Play against one other opponent. After you select your party of characters (each with unique skills) garbage to defeat the opponent’s party of three characters. Chains provide boost to your characters’ “stats”.