Puyo Puyo Fever 2
| Puyo Puyo Fever 2 | |
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 Puyo Puyo Fever 2 Box Art (PlayStation 2) | |
| Developer | Sonic Team |
| Publisher | Sega |
| Platforms | Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable |
| Players | 1-8 players (DS), 1-2 players(other) |
| Release date | Nintendo DS
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Puyo Puyo Fever 2 (ぷよぷよフィーバー ２【チュー！】, Puyo Puyo Fība 2 (Chū!)) is the sequel to Puyo Puyo Fever. It is set in Primp Town, the home of the previous game's magic school. The game utilizes a town map that allows you to access various areas that perform certain functions. The game's now 9 courses are accessed through the school. It also contains a tower (for Endless Puyo modes), a shop (to buy items), a town hall (to change options and save), a museum (for viewing unlocked music, cutscenes, etc.), and a playground (for multiplayer and free battle). You can explore these areas and talk to the people there, who may also give you items.
This game is followed by Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary.
Story
The game boasts nine courses, three times of that from the original Puyo Puyo Fever. Each of the three main characters (Amitie, Raffina, and Sig) has three courses, each with a different story. In general, the main plot of the WakuWaku course involves meeting Lemres, a wizard from the neighboring town who is visiting Primp Magic School, and the plot of the HaraHara course involves stopping Klug, who has become possessed by his book. Each character sets off to do these things in their own way, and usually those things not being their initial intentions.
RunRun Course
The RunRun (るんるん, runrun) course in Puyo Puyo Fever 2 is similar to the original RunRun course in that it's designed to get the player started. It starts at a dialog with Ms. Accord. Each player faces three others: 2 classmates and then a final test by Ms. Accord.
Raffina
Amitie
Sig
WakuWaku Course
The WakuWaku (わくわく, wakuwaku) course is also similar to the original course in a similar manner, except that the WakuWaku course only lasts for 6 stages, unlike the previous game's same course(which had 8 stages).
Raffina
In the opening scene, Raffina meets Butler, who is searching for the Ocean Prince. Butler makes a deal with Raffina in order to convince her to help. Throughout the rest of the course, Raffina is basically shown pushing other characters out of the way as she attempts to find Ocean Prince (who she plans to turn back into a human in order to make him her "prince").
The final dialog shows Lemres turning Ocean Prince into his human form, Prince Salde, as Butler tries to catch up with him, who struggles away from Lemres and Raffina. Raffina then looks at the item she gets from Butler, the Shellfish of Thinking, in disgust. The screen fades and the credits roll.
Amitie
Amitie begins her course at Primp Magic School, where Accord asks her to meet up with a visitor (Lemres) since she cannot do so personally due to something coming up. However, Accord neglects to tell Amitie who the visitor is, so Amitie sets off rather aimlessly, encountering and challenging random characters.
As the course ends, Amitie seems to be embarrassed for beating up Lemres, the visitor whom she was supposed to meet up with. Amitie is then shown apologizing to Accord while holding a coughing Lemres.
Sig
Sig's course begins on a dialog with Accord. Apparently, Amitie forgot the observation data notebook for the flower she was supposed to be watching, so he plans to give it to her. However, at this point Accord has already sent Amitie off to meet Lemres. Since Accord forgot to give Amitie a description of Lemres, she gives Sig a note to give to Amitie along with the notebook.
This course ends with Sig reading the letter that he was supposed to give to Amitie, the letter consisting of a picture of Lemres, the person Amitie was supposed to meet. Realizing this, Sig picks Lemres off the ground and shakes him, which heals him, and then leaves.
HaraHara Course
The HaraHara (はらはら, harahara) course is similar as well, having the full 8-stage length from the previous game.
Raffina
The course begins with Lemres informing Raffina that his purpose for coming to Primp Town was to deliver the "Stone of Moon," but lost it on the way. He convinces her to help him find it by inserting the fact that it is said to improve one's complexion, thoroughly exciting Raffina.
The course ends with Raffina taking the Stone of Moon from Possessed Klug, with the latter asking if she's concerned about Klug, whom he's currently possessing. Raffina says that she really doesn't mind him being in Klug's body, seeing as she only came for the Stone. She heads back to Lemres, and says she got the stone, but that it's broken. Lemres actually explains that it has to be broken in order to use it. Raffina rejoices as Lemres heads back to Feli and Balanders, revealing to Feli that he didn't tell Raffina that the stone's effects only last for 3 days before it's put back together.
Amitie
The course begins with the spotlight focused on Klug, who plans to increase his magic power by unsealing his book through the use of three magic items, although he still needs the Stone of Moon that Raffina was looking for. Amitie runs into Klug and defeats him. Annoyed by his defeat, Klug threatens Amitie to meet him in the ruins and fight him in his unleashed form.
The story - and the game itself - ends with Amitie rejoicing that she won against Possessed Klug, while he begs her not to take the bookmark inside the Tome of Sealing. Amitie slips it out of the book and asks if this is the one he means, with Possessed Klug screaming as he's sealed back into Klug's book and Klug gets his body back. The latter tells Amitie that it was just an experiment on what happens if someone is possessed. Lemres joins in on the conversation and the three decide to go back to the school, having a good laugh while doing so.
Sig
Possibly taking place after the events of Raffina's WakuWaku course, Sig meets Prince Salde - Ocean Prince in his human form. Wanting to return to his fish form in order to deceive his Butler (known in this story as "a pursuer"), Salde bribes Sig with free meals and naps in order to have him help find the Lantern of Star, which is necessary to transform him into a fish again.
The course ends with Prince Salde reaching for the Lantern slowly as Possessed Klug laments that he lost. While he's distracted, Salde grabs the lantern, turning back into the Ocean Prince. He and Sig head back to the ocean and say their goodbyes... only for the Ocean Prince to be eaten by a whale.
Gameplay
The Basics, and The Main Game
- See also: Items in Puyo Puyo Fever 2
The first main difference between the two Fever games is in the main menu. Rather than simply having everything confined to a singular menu, in Fever 2 the various locales throughout Primp Town serve as a "hub"-esque main menu. Pressing the pause button brings up a menu to save and view progress.
- Town Hall: The location of the rankings, minigames, mail, and options. Rei is the host of this area.
- Magic School: The location of all three by three Story modes. Accord is the host of this area.
- Dapper's Shop: The area where you can buy all renewable items, and obtain one of the permanent six. Dapper Bones runs the store.
- Museum: The area where you can examine what the items do, read books in the library that provide lore, and listen to music, re-watch manzais, and except on the DS view replays. Akuma is the curator of the museum.
- Tower: The location of single-player challenge modes, including Endless Fever, Endless Chu Panic, Endless Mission, Endless Classic, and the Fever 2 equivalent to Puyo Puyo Box's Scramble mode and later games(+ Puyo Puyo~n's Playstation port)' Endless Battle. Hoho tends to this area.
- Playground: The spot for Free Battle (Fever only except on DS) matches, and all multiplayer related content. Arle and Carbuncle are the characters you encounter here.
Fever mode, the core gameplay mode, remained relatively unchanged from Puyo Puyo Fever. By offsetting nuisance Puyo in one's nuisance tray, a player can add points to their Fever gauge. When the gauge is completely filled, the player then enters a timed Fever mode in which they temporarily play on another field. The player must then correctly set-off the preset chains that are dropped onto the field.
The second main difference between the two Fever games, which is also an addition to the gameplay, is the items system. Before a match, one is allowed to choose an item that can affect the gameplay of the match. Some items allow you to play as another character (something that was not possible in the previous game without a button combination, and even then only in certain versions). The majority do helpful things such as dumping Nuisance Puyo on an opponent at the beginning, making attacks more powerful, setting up a chain for you to start with, or starting you with a couple points on your Fever counter, but they also leave you with a lower multiplier at the end of a won match. Common items can be bought at Dapper Bones' shop using points which are earned through either beating computer-controlled characters in the main game or playing any of the Endless modes. Additionally, there's a chance that an opponent-specific item will be dropped into your inventory once you defeat any opponent in the main game(usually when replaying any course) - more specifically, the Story and Endless Battle modes.
A pink variation of the Nuisance Puyo, known as Chu Puyo, were introduced in this game and do not appear in any other game to date. However these only appear in Endless Chu Panic where they replace Nuisance Puyo, though an item can be used to achieve the same effect in the Story mode and the Endless Battle mode. Chu Puyo have no effect on gameplay and are a purely graphical and audio modification.
Three save files are allowed, as if to track progress for multiple players.
Multiplayer("Everybody Puyo Puyo")
Multiplayer is relatively the same as with the previous game. The same 4 rules found in the human VS in the last game is here. The Playstation 2 and Playstation Portable only supports games up to 2 players. The Playstation Portable contains all local multiplayer modes that the Playstation Portable officially supports, that being the normal local Ad-Hoc mode and the Game Sharing functionality, along with the returning "Face-to-Face"(single-console multiplayer) mode from Puyo Puyo Fever. The Nintendo DS version of Puyo Puyo Fever 2 also contains all local multiplayer modes that the Nintendo DS officially supports, with multi-cart local Wireless Play and the DS Download Play functionality.
In any of the non-DS versions, only up to 2 players can play Free Battles. In the DS version, up to 8 players can play a Free Battle in any mode that the amount of players permits.
Face-to-Face(PSP)
Most of this mode is identical from Puyo Puyo Fever(PSP), except for the fact that there's now a second rotational button for each player in this mode, with "L"(for 1P) and "R"(for 2P) respectively.
PSP Game Sharing/DS Download Play
A new feature which is not present in the PSP port of Puyo Puyo Fever is the Game Sharing option, which allows you to share a simplified version of the game to the other players(works identically to the DS Download Play). Rooms made with this feature forced the guest(s) to enter their own Game Sharing feature.
Some visuals and audio are limited in this mode, and, in the DS version, none of the unlockable characters can be chosen by the guest in this mode.
Playable Characters
Listed in order of voice clips in the museum, which is also their indexing order.
- Amitie
- Dapper Bones
- Klug
- Donguri Gaeru
- Lidelle
- Onion Pixie
- Ocean Prince
- Raffina
- Yu and Rei
- Tartar
- Hoho
- Accord and Popoi
- Frankensteins
- Arle and Carbuncle
- Sig
- Lemres, unlocked by completing one of the WakuWaku courses.
- Feli
- Baldanders
- Gogotte
- Akuma
- Possessed Klug, unlocked by completing one of the HaraHara courses.
Development
Pre-release
Not much info is found on the development of Puyo Puyo Fever 2. After the success of Puyo Puyo Fever, SEGA, in short, originally wanted to create an expanded version of Puyo Puyo Fever known as "Puyo Puyo Fever +/Plus". Its original focus was simple, add new character, revamp older characters and eventually add new extras to the game. This eventually turned into a sequel where the point was was to explore Primp Town and talk with Primp residents along your journey, having its culmutative title of "Puyo Puyo Town" at early stages of development, then being renamed to "Puyo Puyo Fever TSU!" to go in line with the "Tsu" naming scheme(as seen in Puyo Puyo Tsu), then finally got renamed to "Puyo Puyo Fever 2 (CHU!)", also usually known as "Puyo Puyo Fever 2".
Its internal development name was "Puyo Puyo 6".
The game had a really rushed/fast development time, with its development time being around 8 ~ 10 months(based off the announcement date).
Post-release
Sales
Sales-wise, it was one of the lowest-selling known SEGA-Era Puyo games to date(only winning against Puyo Puyo Chronicle's physical sales), only selling about 120,000 copies between all three versions:
| Game | Release Date (earliest) | Sales (Copies Sold) | Citation(s) | Date of Citation(s) |
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| Puyo Puyo Fever 2 | November 24, 2005 | Around 120,000 | Source 1 Source 2 | August 31st, 2024 |
| Puyo Puyo 15th Anniversary | December 14, 2006 | 649,869 | Source | May 1, 2013 |
| Puyo Puyo 7 | July 30, 2009 | 493,196 | Source | May 1, 2013 |
| Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary | July 14, 2011 | 325,832 | Source | May 1, 2013 |
| Puyo Puyo!! Quest | April 24, 2013 | At least 26,000,000 | Source | February 28, 2022 |
| Puyo Puyo!! Quest Arcade | November 7, 2013 | At least 1,500,000 | Source | July 11, 2016 |
| Puyo Puyo Tetris | February 6, 2014 | Over 1,400,000 | Source | November 19, 2020 |
| Puyo Puyo Chronicle | December 8, 2016 | 21,451* | Source | July 22, 2021 |
| Puyo Puyo eSports/Champions | October 25, 2018 | |||
| Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 | December 8, 2020 | 500,000-600,000ª | Source | July 22, 2021 |
* Physical sales only (excludes digital sales)
Note: 400,000 is generally considered to be the minimum amount for a mass-market game to be considered "successful" in Japan.
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ª Total sales derived from ([Puyo Puyo Tetris 1&2 (over 2 million)] - [Puyo Puyo Tetris 1]) |
Because of said fact, a new director Mizuki Hosoyamada had to replace the role after this(starting with Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary).
Cheats
- Unlike Puyo Puyo Fever, every version, with the exception of the DS version, does not contain any kind of cheat codes, even ones didn't have item alternatives(like the character items) in the Story and Endless Tower modes.
- All of the following cheats that do exist(corresponding to the DS version) are also carried over from the DS version of Puyo Puyo Fever.
- Harder CPU in Battles (Core AI Cheat)
- Hold R while selecting the CPU character, then press A/START with the buttons held. The CPU opponent will now have faster movement.
- Use Dropsets in Endless Modes
- Hold X while selecting your character in any Endless modes outside of 'Endless Tower', then press A/START with the buttons held. The previously all-pair dropset, normally used as Arle, will now have the chosen character's dropset. Unlike Puyo Puyo Fever, high scores can be saved into the records if you use this cheat.
- Use TSU Ruleset in Free Battle
- Hold X while selecting your character and/or your opponent in any of the Fever-related rules(Fever, Trap or Custom), then press A/START with the buttons held. You/your opponent will now have a TSU/Classic Rules board, following the rules of said mode.
- Set Player as CPU
- Hold SELECT, then press A/START on your difficulty selection during the start of each match. The player's character should now be controlled by the CPU(with their own AI routine). (Hold R + SELECT to activate Core AI CPU for your character.)
- Instant Win/KO All CPU's in Free Battle
- Press L + R + SELECT during a match. This will KO all CPU's, which instantly wins the player(s) the match if there's only 1 human-controlled player remaining or if there are no opposing human-controlled players remaining.
Bugs
- In the PSP version, trying to drop a Puyo with Nuisance to fall in the Nuisance Queue while the opponent's chain is happening sometimes causes said Nuisance to fall in their board, which may cause an unexpected loss for the player depending on the situation. This usually occurs the most when a match has begun and one of the players didn't drop their first/second Puyo yet by the time their opponent executes their chain.
- Getting a 'drawn game/match'(two boards touch the "X" spot at the same time) against the computer in the Story and Endless Battle modes in certain stages(which normally makes you lose the match anyway) will sometimes cause the game to crash. All unsaved data will be lost if this occurs. (Confirmed with DS(Story-only), untested with PSP/PS2.)
Trivia
- Possessed Klug uses a unique voice pattern.
- In terms of character strength, Baldanders is the weakest character in the game, both inside and outside of Fever.
- Except for the Wii version of Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary, this is the only Puyo Puyo game to feature multiple save files.
- Arle mentions the spell that makes Puyo battles possible, "Owanimo", in one of the library books called "Arle's Memories 2".
- Each version's boxart corresponds to a different protagonist.
- The DS boxart focuses on Amitie.
- The PSP boxart focuses on Raffina.
- The PS2 boxart focuses on Sig.
- The Story Order, in terms of chronological events, goes Sig, Raffina, and Amitie.
Gallery
- Boxart
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PSP version boxart -
DS version boxart
- Screenshots
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Title Screen(PS2) -
Story Gameplay - Sig's WakuWaku Course(PS2) -
Free Battle Gameplay 1(NDS) -
Free Battle Gameplay 2(NDS)
- Magazine Prints
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Famitsu Preview 1, Page 1 -
Famitsu Preview 1, Page 2 -
Famitsu Preview 2, Page 1 -
Famitsu Preview 2, Page 2 -
Famitsu Preview 3
- Other Merchandise
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Puyo Puyo Fever 1 & 2 Soundtrack
External links
Summary:
Added loads of new info, including a whole section for the Multiplayer portion of the game, alongside the Pre-Release part of "Development" and new item info.