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Sega of America’s mobile game studios appear to be having a rough time recently. Earlier on, SEGA announced that they were making a reduction in their mobile work force. As a result, everyone at Three Rings Design Inc. lost their job. More recently, SEGA announced that they would be closing down Puzzle & Glory, a mobile match-3 RPG game from Demiurge Studios (acquired by SEGA in 2015). And now SEGA have announced that yet another mobile game will be closing down, namely Cranky Food Friends. The game will be shutting down on March 31, 2016. The game is mostly known to SEGA fans because of the fact that it’s a reskin of Puyo Puyo Quest!!, one of SEGA’s most successful mobile games in Japan. The reskin was a controversial decision, and apparently didn’t help to assure the game’s success in the West.

Puyo Puyo Quest is a fairly successful mobile game in Japan. For the West, the game is being reskinned and launched as “Cranky Food Friends,” with a soft launch that started in Canada and certain European countries. If there is any doubt, compare the featured image with the image below.

The similarity in structure of the two games should be immediately apparent. Even if Cranky Food Friends was simply inspired by the concept of Puyo Puyo Quest and didn’t involve the replacing of assets, it would beg the question of why Puyo Puyo Quest itself wasn’t released outside of Japan while Cranky Food Friends is going to see such a release. We each decided to write down our thoughts about this, which you can find below.

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SEGA’s Mobile Game Cranky Food Friends is Closing Down

Our Thoughts on Puyo Puyo Quest Being Reskinned as Cranky Food Friends