Puyo Puyo DA!
| Puyo Puyo DA! | |
|---|---|
 Title Screen | |
| Developer | Compile |
| Publisher | Compile |
| Platforms | Arcade, Dreamcast |
| Modes | Single Player, Multi Player |
| Players | 1-2 players |
| Release date | Dreamcast
Arcade
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Puyo Puyo DA! is a rhythm game for the Sega Dreamcast with Puyo Puyo characters. This game is based off a Disc Station game previously featuring Ellena Stevens.
Gameplay
Puyo Puyo DA! uses four directional buttons and an action button, in three different layouts. With Type A, the directional buttons are mapped to both the D-pad and face buttons, while the action button is mapped to L and R. Type B maps the D-pad to the action button, while Type C maps the face buttons to action. The game is somewhat turn-based; the opponent lays out a pattern of buttons to the music, and the player must copy the pattern. There is a rating system dependent on the timing of your button presses, going from Bad to Fair, Good, Great, and Excellent. Great and Excellent ratings will create Chains, although skipping a button press will still count. Thus, if you press all buttons in a combo, but most are Good or lower, you will get less a lower Chain than the other person. There is also a "Nori Nori" gauge that decreases with terrible play. Once it's empty, the player automatically loses. Chains send Garbage Puyo to the opponent, just like in the main series, and when the song ends, the person with Garbage Puyo on their side loses.
Characters
There are 8 characters in this game, each with their own difficulty mode. All returning characters have gained new designs for the game.
- Arle wears a gray beanie, a black, yellow, and red hoodie, a pair of jeans, and tennis shoes. There is also a chain on her jeans.
- Ellena Stevens is the star of the game Puyo Puyo Da is based on.
- Suketoudara wears a ballet-inspired outfit, including a tutu and ballet shoes.
- Schezo wears a flamenco-like outfit, and carries a pair of maracas.
- Rulue wears a crop tank top, a crop jacket, a skirt, and boots. This outfit is entirely black.
- Satan wears a fishnet tank top, jeans like Arle's, dress shoes, and a pair of glasses. He also has ear piercings.
- Minotauros wears a yellow hoodie, sunglasses, jeans, and tennis shoes.
- Skeleton T has a green beanie, tennis shoes, and fingerless gloves.
Songs
There are 8 different songs in this game, 1 per character. Here are the songs along with the name of the character they are associated with:
| Character | Song |
|---|---|
| Arle | Shakunetsu no Fire Dance(Edit) |
| Skeleton T | Puyopuyo(DA Original Remix) |
| Suketoudara | I miss you |
| Ellena | I sing |
| Minotauros | Hip House Compile Classix'95 |
| Schezo | toy of puyopuyo(morphing 727 mix) |
| Satan | I hate you(hanglish version) |
| Rulue | memories of puyopuyo(euro version) |
| Song | |
|---|---|
| Opening | theme of puyopuyo(bumpin'around mix) |
| Continue | 傷心(Kizugokoro) |
| Name Entry | ゲームしようよ!(Game shiyou yo!) |
| Ending | ここで逢えたね(Koko de aeta ne) |
Gallery
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Title screen -
Arle and the crew -
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Trivia
- Puyo Puyo DA! was Compile's last Puyo Puyo game to be released on a Sega system, with the last Compile game in the series, Puyo Puyo Box, releasing a year later.
- In contrast to most Puyo Puyo games, a large majority of the text in this game is in English.
- The tracks Toy of Puyo Puyo and Memories of Puyo Puyo are taken from the CD Bayoeen - The Mega Tracks of Puyo Puyo CD.
- The characters are mostly redesigned with a more hip-hop style in mind, except for two; Schezo, who wears a flamenco-styled outfit, and Suketoudara, who wears a ballet outfit.
- One of the game's main marketing points was the fact that the characters were in 3D for the first time. 3D-modeled characters would not be used again, until the release of Puyo Puyo Chronicle on the Nintendo 3DS.
- The game bears somewhat of a resemblance to Space Channel 5, another game for the Sega Dreamcast. Similarly, some Puyo Puyo games released after Sega's acquisition of the series have a Puyo skin based on the Morolians, a race of aliens from the Space Channel 5 series.
- Most characters have voice clips reused from Puyo Puyo~n. However, Minotauros and Ellena have entirely new voice clips.