"Puyo Puyo Chronicles. This was a game that was expected to come out for the majority of the year, since it’s the 25th Anniversary of the franchise. Normally when it comes to anniversaries SEGA focuses their cards on Sonic, but people outside of Japan don’t know Puyo Puyo also gets attention with a sudden boom of merchandising and a new game."
The latest in the Puyo Puyo series strays far from its pure puzzle roots in many ways, but it does so by drifting into a burgeoning arena in its own right: the puzzle-RPG hybrid. Puyo Puyo Chronicle borrows liberally from 3DS peers Puzzle & Dragons X and Monster Strike (and progenitor Puzzle Quest before them), knowing that its distinct fun lies in the fact that, at the end of the day, you get to play some Puyo.
Carl Williams writes, "Sega are on quite a roll lately. Just recently it was revealed that Sega were acquiring the Technosoft library that includes the Thunder Force series, Herzog Zwei and a few other titles. Now it they are showing off Puyo Puyo Chronicles for the Nintendo 3DS. This is great news for fans of this franchise when it was released here in the states as Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine on Sega Genesis and Game Gear. Other retro gaming fans may remember it as Kirby’s Avalanche on Super Nintendo. In more recent years, Sega has brought the series over under the Puyo Puyo name on platforms such as the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. With such a pedigree to work off of, it is almost a guarantee that we will see this newest entry released in North America at some point. For now, it is a Japan exclusive."
