Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary

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Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary
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Nintendo DS cover art
Developer(s) Sonic Team
Publisher(s) Sega
Director(s) Takumi Yoshinaga
Producer(s) Mizuki Hosoyamada
Designer(s) Utako Yoshino
Takeshi Yamazaki
Programmer(s) Takuma Komatsu [1]
Artist(s) Akira Mikame
Composer(s) Hideki Abe
Series Puyo Puyo
Platform(s) Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, PlayStation Portable
ReleaseNintendo DS
  • JP: July 14, 2011
Nintendo 3DS, Wii, PlayStation Portable
  • JP: December 15, 2011
[2]
Genre(s) Puzzle game
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary is a puzzle game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. The game honored the twentieth year of the Puyo Puyo series, and was first released for the Nintendo DS in July 2011, and later for Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and PlayStation Portable in December.

Contents

Gameplay

In total, the game has 20 modes of gameplay, including 8 new modes, and 5 hidden modes from Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary . [3] Except in Mission and Pair Puyo modes, a player is eliminated when they top out, and the last player (or side) standing wins the round.

"Pair Puyo"

A two-on-two team play mode. The teammates share Nuisance Puyo and "lives" - when one of the teams' field tops out, the board is replaced with a new board with a pre-made chain and costs a life. When all lives are lost, the team is eliminated, and the last team standing wins the match.

The players get bonuses for "Extra Chains" (firing a chain during your teammate's chain) and "Synchro Chains" (firing chains of the same length (3 or longer) at the same time).

Shop

Like Puyo Puyo Fever 2 there is a shop, but instead of ineffective game play items the players can spend points they get from various modes for exchange of Puyo skins, alternate character voices, and alternate character costumes.

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References

  1. Sonic Team (July 14, 2011). Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary (Nintendo DS). Sega. Lead Programmer: Takuma Komatsu
  2. "Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary 3DS, Wii, PSP version promotion movie". Senpai Gamer. 28 September 2011. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
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