Puyo Puyo Tsu/Port Comparison

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This is a comparison chart for most of Puyo Puyo Tsu's various ports.

Overview

Unlike the first Puyo Puyo's ports, which had a mostly-consistent featureset, Tsu ports vary in gameplay modes and other traits. This page will describe the major differences between each version.

Floor Target

This is the EXP total that the player must reach in Normal mode before they can advance to the next floor.

Masked Satan Target

This is the EXP total that the player must reach in Normal mode before they can battle Masked Satan instead of the regular Satan.

Beginner Courses

This describes whether or not the game in question has at least one Beginner's course. If it does, this cell also displays the number of Beginner's Courses that the game contains.

Expert Course

This describes whether or not the game in question contains an Expert mode.

Endless

This describes whether or not the game in question contains an Endless mode. If it does, this cell also displays whether or not the game in question contains Carbuncle and Big Puyo items.

Nazo Puyo

This describes whether or not the game in question contains a Nazo Puyo mode. See below for more details.

Voice Actress

Lines were recorded for Tsu on at least three separate occasions. As Arle's voice is the most prevalent in the game, her voice actress will be used to denote each vocal set.

  • Mami Inoue voiced Arle in the early versions of Puyo Puyo Tsu and spinoffs released around the same timeframe. Her lines, along with the entire casts' lines, were redone for the Sega Saturn port.
  • Minako Ozawa was selected from a Compile-ran audition to replace Mami Inoue, starting with the PlayStation port. She would reprise the role in Puyo Puyo Sun and every Puyo Puyo-related spinoff until Puyo Puyo DA!
  • Kotono Mitsuishi, Arle's voice actress from Puyo Puyo CD, reprised her role in Puyo Puyo CD Tsu. She would later voice Arle in Madou Monogatari I Honoo No Sotsuenji.
  • Hiromi Miura, an RCC Broadcasting employee (like Arle's first voice actress, Reiko Kurusu), voiced Arle in Puyo Puyo Tsu Perfect Set. Unlike the other voice actresses, she did not reprise the role in any other Puyo Puyo games.

Before Battle

Before battles in Normal mode, many ports will either display a short description of the opponent character or display a cutscene featuring Arle and the upcoming opponent.

Chart

System(s) Floor 1 Target Floor 2 Target Floor 3 Target Floor 4 Target Floor 5 Target Masked Satan Target Beginner Courses Expert Course Endless Nazo Puyo Voice Actress Before Battle
Arcade
Mega Drive 		15000 45000 80000 120000 150000 180000 No No No No Mami Inoue (Arcade) Enemy Description
Game Gear 25000 70000 120000 160000 200000 N/A No No No No N/A N/A
Sega Saturn 15000 45000 80000 120000 150000 180000 1 (Saturn) Yes (Saturn) No No Mami Inoue (Saturn) Cutscene
PC-9821 15000 45000 80000 120000 150000 180000 No No Yes (Items: Unknown) No Mami Inoue (Saturn) Enemy Description
Super Famicom (1st) 30000 60000 90000 120000 140000 180000 1 (SFC) No Yes (Items: Yes) No Mami Inoue (Saturn) Cutscene
Super Famicom (Remix) 30000 60000 90000 120000 140000 180000 3 (Remix) Yes (Remix) Yes (Items: Yes) No Mami Inoue (Saturn) Cutscene
PC-Engine CD 15000 45000 80000 120000 150000 180000 No Yes (PCE)1 No No Kotono Mitsuishi Both2
PlayStation 25000 70000 115000 160000 190000 230000 3 (PSX) Yes (Saturn) Yes (Items: No) No Minako Ozawa Cutscene
PlayStation 2 25000 70000 115000 160000 190000 230000 3 (PSX) Yes (Saturn) Yes (Items: No) Yes Hiromi Miura Cutscene
Windows 95
Macintosh 		15000 45000 80000 120000 150000 180000 No No Yes (Items: Unknown) Yes Minako Ozawa Enemy Description
Game Boy 30000 60000 90000 120000 140000 180000 3 (Remix) Yes (Remix) Yes (Items: Yes) No N/A N/A
Neo Geo Pocket Color 30000 60000 90000 120000 140000 180000 3 (Remix) Yes (Remix) Yes (Items: Yes) No Minako Ozawa N/A
WonderSwan 30000 60000 90000 120000 140000 180000 3 (Remix) Yes (Remix) Yes (Items: Yes) No Mami Inoue (Saturn) Enemy Description
Nintendo Switch 15000 45000 80000 120000 150000 180000 No Yes (PCE)3 No No Mami Inoue (Arcade) Enemy Description

1 Known as "Arrange" mode.
2 Enemy Descriptions normally, Cutscenes in Arrange.
3 Known as "Endurance" mode.

Beginner Courses

In the Sega Saturn version, the field background of the floor corresponding to the stage number is used (e.g. floor 1 background for the stage 1), while an arrangement of "Theme of Puyo Puyo", the normal stages 1-8 theme of the original Puyo Puyo plays for the entire course.

Sega Saturn

  1. Lycanthrope
  2. Scylla
  3. Incubus
  4. Cockatrice

Super Puyo Puyo Tsu

This port uses a unique field background for Beginner Courses, as well as the Endless/cutscene music playing for the entire course in the original version. In Super Puyo Puyo Tsu Remix, cutscenes only play at the final stage (final two stages in the case of the final course). Additionally, each course has a unique ending, with the final course's being identical to the one used in the original. In the Game Boy version, this was changed to be based on the first half of the Expert Course ending. Lastly, the Normal Course's music tracks are used depending on the stage, in addition to the Endless/cutscene music like the original.

Original
  1. Owlbear
  2. Banshee Trio
  3. Zombie
  4. Nohoho, if the player does not use a continue
Remix
Beginning (はじめて)
  1. Skeleton-T (Plays the Endless/Cutscene music)
  2. Parara
  3. Owlbear (Area C)
Experienced (なれた)
  1. Mini Zombie (Area B)
  2. Momomo
  3. Dragon
  4. Uroko Sakana Bito
  5. Zombie (Area C)
Graduation (そつぎょう)
  1. Nasu Grave (Area A)
  2. Pakista
  3. Suketoudara
  4. Harpy
  5. Mummy (Area C)
  6. Zoh Daimaoh
  7. Banshee Trio (Area D)
  8. Nohoho, if the player does not use a continue

PlayStation

Like Super Puyo Puyo Tsu Remix, cutscenes only play at the final stage (final two stages in the case of the final course). However, only the final course feature an ending cutscene, unlike in Super Puyo Puyo Tsu Remix, with the first two courses instead transitioning directly to the play record screen. Additionally, both of Lycanthrope and Scylla's cutscenes switched their place; the ones used for the Expert Course in the Sega Saturn version now plays in the Beginner Course and vice versa. Much like the Sega Saturn version, the field background of the floor corresponding to the stage number is used (e.g. floor 1 background for the stage 1), and an arrangement of "Theme of Puyo Puyo", the normal stages 1-8 theme of the original Puyo Puyo play for the entire course.

Beginning (はじめて)
  1. Skeleton-T
  2. Parara
  3. Incubus
Experienced (なれた)
  1. Mini Zombie
  2. Momomo
  3. Dragon
  4. Uroko Sakana Bito
  5. Lycanthrope
Graduation (そつぎょう)
  1. Nasu Grave
  2. Pakista
  3. Suketoudara
  4. Harpy
  5. Mummy
  6. Scylla
  7. Cockatrice

Expert Courses

Sega Saturn

The player battles Lycanthrope, Scylla, Incubus, and Cockatrice, and then every character in the order that they appear on the Normal mode's tower. This includes every hidden battle except the two Masked Satans. Three unique music tracks are used during battles; one for the characters appear in floors 1 and 2 as well as Lycanthrope, Scylla, Incubus and Cockatrice, one for the hidden battle characters, and another for the characters appear in floors 3-5. The last of which, was repurposed in Super Puyo Puyo Tsu for the Beginner Course (Stages 1 and 2 of the first course in Remix), as well as the Endless mode and cutscenes. The characters appear in the floor 6 uses the same music as the Normal Course. Additionally, the first 4 characters use the "wooden" field background used in the multiplayer mode, while the rest's field backgrounds are identical to their appearances in the Normal Course.

Similar order goes for the PlayStation port, with different music and different voice actress.

CD Tsu (PCE)

The player battles every character in the order that they appear on the Normal mode's tower. This includes every hidden battle except the first floor's Masked Satan. The field backgrounds and music tracks are identical to their appearances in the Normal Course. The cutscenes that play depend on the "Animation" setting in the options menu, with Arrange1 emulating the Normal mode cutscenes in other ports while Arrange2 emulates the Expert mode cutscenes in the Sega Saturn version.

SEGA AGES Puyo Puyo 2 uses a similar order in its Endurance mode. Since it is effectively a regular arcade playthrough modded to remove the roulette and points threshholds, it utilizes the same pre-battle enemy descriptions as the standard Arcade mode.

Remix

Unlike the other two Expert courses, Remix's Expert mode order has no correlation to the characters' placement in Normal mode. There are no cutscenes except the ending, either. The same 5 music tracks used in the Normal and Beginner Courses are also used here. Additionally, Satan's field background is used for the entire course instead of transitioning as the player progresses.

  1. Will-o-Wisp (Plays the Practice/Endless/Cutscene music)
  2. Cait Sith
  3. Suketoudara
  4. Harpy
  5. Skeleton-T (Stage A)
  6. Baromett
  7. Nohoho
  8. Banshee Trio
  9. Nomi (Stage B)
  10. Panotty
  11. Sukiya Podes
  12. Nasu Grave
  13. Fufufu Remix
  14. Pakista
  15. Owlbear
  16. Mummy
  17. Mini Zombie
  18. Momomo
  19. Sasori Man
  20. Samurai Mole
  21. Uroko Sakana Bito (Stage C)
  22. Zombie
  23. Parara
  24. Witch
  25. Zoh Daimaoh
  26. Dragon
  27. Schezo Wegey
  28. Mamono
  29. Minotauros
  30. Draco Centauros
  31. Rulue
  32. Satan (Stage D)
  33. Masked Satan

Nazo Puyo

Windows '95 / Macintosh

In the Windows '95 and Macintosh versions, this mode is based upon the Nazo Puyo minigames included in the Windows '95 volumes of Disc Station; Arle wants to use a warp magic circle to go home, but Lycanthrope, Incubus and Scylla are blocking her way; she must battle them in Nazo Puyo to progress. The player can select the puzzle they want to play, and they can progress the level after clearing a set amount of puzzles. Playing all puzzles is optional, but the player is forced to progress the level after doing so.

PlayStation 2

Unlike the PC versions, the Nazo Puyo mode in the PlayStation 2 version is based on the first two Game Gear Nazo Puyo titles. Therefore, the player receive puzzles in a linear fashion instead of having a gameplay style akin to the PC version, but they also can save their progression. No cutscenes are played at all, but the UI aesthetic, music and the ending are reused from the PC versions. Additionally, the editor mode akin to other Nazo Puyo games are included, allowing the player to create their own puzzles.

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