Poy Poy 2

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Poy Poy 2
Poy Poy 2.jpg
European cover art
Developer(s) Konami
Publisher(s) Konami
Director(s) Masashi Ugajin
Producer(s) Masaki Yoneoka
Programmer(s)
  • Takanori Murayama
  • Masayoshi Sato
Artist(s) Masashi Ugajin
Composer(s) Akira Yamaoka
Platform(s) PlayStation
ReleaseJuly 9, 1998
Genre(s) Fighting
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Poy Poy 2 [1] is the 1998 European and Japanese-only sequel to Poy Poy. Up to four players can compete against each other at a time in an arena with a variety of weapons and powers. [2]

Contents

Gameplay

The gameplay is the same as in Poy Poy, though it features more powers and moves, as well as different characters and arenas. Players will battle in a variety stages with unique themes, layouts, hazards, and available weapons. [3] The stages can range from basic arena like Grass and Final to stages with different fundamental mechanics like Ice and Moon to stages with unique tools like Warp.

Rules

The objective of the game is to earn points through various means before the timer expires or "retire" your opponents by throwing objects to them or forcing them to stage hazards until their HPs are down to zero. Match winners are determined by their total points after the match.

Number of Rounds

Matches have 3 rounds each in Poy! Poy! Cup and Team Battle. Party Play can be customized to have 1 to 5 rounds. The time limit for each round is 90 seconds.

Point Scoring

  • Direct Hits Points: Each direct hit scores 1 point. Psycho-glove powers do not count towards the direct hit points.
  • Luck Points: Each lucky heart in the game scores 2 points.
  • Round Points: determined based on the order of retirement or the order of remaining health when the round timer expires, with the most health being the first place. First place gets 12 points, second place gets 6, third place gets 4, and fourth place gets 2.

Psycho-Gloves

Before a match begins, players will choose which "Psycho-glove" to use in the match. Each psycho-glove has a unique power that can be used by picking an object (except special objects such as the item box) and pressing the psycho-glove button (default is R1). Psycho-gloves offers a variety of powers including damaging spells (e.g Chase), zoning spells (e.g Acid Rain), crowd control (e.g Electro), buff (e.g Star Force), debuff (e.g Shadow), utility (e.g Escape), or support (e.g Angel). Using psycho-gloves requires psycho-power - the game's version of MP - which can be recovered by picking up the Flash Ball or by throwing objects. Psycho-glove powers do not count towards the direct hit points. While any character can choose any glove, there is a system in place that determines the compatibility of a glove to a character - lower compatibility means the character cannot utilize the full potential of a given glove. Illegal gloves are an exception to the compatibility rule, as all characters have 100% compatibility with them.

Items

Each stage has a Supplier that constantly replenishes items in a stage that the players can use to damage other competitors or to be used as fuels to their Psycho-power.

Color Balls

Boxes contain randomized color balls upon breaking. These balls can restore, damage, or temporarily buff/debuff characters who pick them up. Color balls will vanish when no one picks them up after a few seconds.

Game Modes

Poy! Poy! Cup

This is a single-player campaign, where the player picks a character and progresses through three tournament tiers: qualifying rounds (Preliminaries), the tournament proper (Main Event), and the championship (Final). The first two tiers consist of 5 stages each, and the championship match is played at the Final stage. Players can save their money, Psycho-Glove data, and Disk collection using the Save Machine in the Lobby.

Stars

After each game in the World Cup, scoring stars are awarded: four to the first-place finisher, two to the second-place finisher, and one to the third-place finisher. Overall standings are determined by the total number of such stars which players have accumulated up to a given point. If multiple players have the same number of stars, then rank is determined by the number of points each player has, from high to low. The tournament is considered lost when the player places 9th or lower in the Preliminaries and 5th or lower in the Main Event.

Money

Players can use their winnings to purchase or upgrade gloves at the Glove Shop. Unlike the other game modes, gloves have to be purchased in this mode before becoming available for use. Basic gloves can be upgraded after the player uses a glove's ability 200 times across all Poy Poy Cup tournaments. However, a secret NPC shows up randomly and allows glove upgrades without this requirement at half the price. Upgrading a glove will unlock that particular glove in the other game modes as well. Doing this also forces all AI to use the upgraded versions of their gloves all the time in all game modes. In the Break Room, players can buy Special Drinks, which provide them with a temporary upgrade for the current tournament.

Winning the Championship

Upon winning the Poy Poy Cup championship, the player will be rewarded with $30,000,000 plus the "fight money" and a scoring plaque (called Battle Record in-game), which shows all of their results in detail, from the tournament to the championship. A limited number of scoring plaques can be saved in a memory card. A dark figure will appear in the Poy Poy Cup lobby who sells illegal gloves for $6,666,666. These gloves cannot be used in Poy Poy Cup, but can be used in the other game modes. Purchasing an illegal glove will force AI players to use the upgraded versions of their gloves in all game modes, regardless of whether the player upgraded a basic glove or not. Lastly, the disk dispenser in the Break Room will dispense a new disk that will provide more information on the game's story and characters.

Final Bosses

After winning the championship 15 times, the player is offered the opportunity to face the boss characters in 2 new stages. Like the Final stage, these stages are not unlockable in the other game modes. Defeating the penultimate bosses will reward an additional $10,000,000, while the final boss will reward the player with an additional $30,000,000, an illegal glove, and the true ending. The ending will only make sense after unlocking all the disks from the dispenser - doing so will unlock small added details in the true ending that will fill in the gaps in the story.

Party Play

This game mode is available for 1 to 4 players (with AI players to fill in any missing slots). The third and fourth players can join in using Multi Tap. In this mode, player(s) can set up a quick battle on whatever stage they choose. More stages can be unlocked by progressing to the Main Event portion of the "Poy Poy Cup". After a match, players can choose between "Rematch" or "Quit" options to determine whether to play again or quit.

Team Battle

This game mode can only be played with one or two players. The player(s) are put into a two-person team (AI will serve as a stand-in if there's no second player). The available maps depend on whether the Main Event stage is unlocked in Poy Poy Cup and are randomized using a roulette system. There are seven matches where the player(s) are matched against randomized AI pairs. This is a single elimination game mode so the "tournament" is lost as soon as the player(s) lose a match. Winning the Team Battle mode rewards the player with a cash bonus, which is added to the Poy Poy Cup money pool. [4] [5]

References

  1. ↑ ポイッターズポイント2 SODOMの陰謀, Poitter's Point 2: Sodom no Inbou
  2. ↑ "Poy Poy 2". Giant Bomb. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "TGS: Poy Poy 2". IGN. IGN. Retrieved 17 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "Poy Poy 2 Game Manual". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2025-09-17.
  5. ↑ "Poy Poy 2 Game Manual" (PDF). Video Games Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-17.
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