Puyo Puyo etc.

Suketoudara attempts intimidation

Puyo Puyo is making quite the come back the past handful of years. I never had much of a taste for it in its first handful of decades, but after being reintroduced via the mashup puzzler Tetris Puyo Puyo when it came to the Switch I felt it click in. However, I was turned off by the presentation of T.P.P., so I went dormant a bit again until M2 ported the initial Arcade release of Puyo Puyo as part of the Sega Ages Switch line — its 90s arcade aesthetic being more my tune. Plus its been translated for the first time and really has a nice weird vibe without being annoying (like T.P.P. is). Of course my luck would be the following week SNES for Switch Online arrives and inexplicably brings along an untranslated Super Puyo Puyo 2 to the service that I already pay for. Its different enough that I don’t mind having both titles; but maybe its the Celestial Lords of Puyo telling me I should make up for lost time?