Why is puyo puyo (mostly in fever mode) so difficult?

[K&D Profile]

IDK why but I mostly find puyo puyo ultra counterintuitive and so hard to play in fever mode (also I can't get pass level 3-4) unlike tetris that I find it most logical in the way to solve it, maybe the only solution or most the responses Im gonna get is "git gud" but is there any way to get better at the puyo part? I mean, any good strategy or a good place to start?

[Miuna]

Honestly, the best way to get better at Puyo in my eyes would be to play either Mini puyo (which gives you a large screen and the puyo's consume less space, point being it lets you learn to build chains), equally, play endless fever, it teaches you the basics of fever mode, real fever isn't so easy as endless but it again creates the understanding of how fever works, equally, if you pay attention in endless fever, you can learn chain patterns of building chains.

Honestly, it was a bad combination of games, the Puyo franchise in which the game is based of assumes you have basic puyo knowledge, the two game modes don't work side by side as damage distribution was always unmatched and disabling quick drop to any puyo vetern really was just an annoyance.

As said, i would try mini puyo mode to learn without having to play against people, gives you a chance to build chains, play endless fever to understand chain composition, then my advice would be try a few VS games against ai, just go against the ones who aren't very good, beginner AI like Amitie and Ringo usually go hand in hand with very slow drop speeds and max chains being of two.
Puyo is actually a very intelligent mode which requires massive amounts of thought into the future of every move you make, you will eventually find yourself trying to think how this block will drop when this chain breaks and try building that into a chain, but if you don't wanna be a expert or anything, just try learning to build 5 chains, this is normally enough to KO or destroy most AI, atleast screw them over for some time.
I first started Puyo back when the first fever game was released (early 2000's), i had played the original puyo a few times but only at a friends, i played fever with my brother and was dismayed by my constant 3 chains, against a more common 5, i found the best way to get better was to play more, sounds simple but fight enemies, get confident enough to try harder foes, accept a loss and keep trying, this method got me to playing how i am today, though i admit i have loved puyo since and played everyone of them released (even with JP imports)

A alternative method might be to try watching the experts on youtube play, whilst this works, it is relative to how your brain comprehends information, if you don't have a common grasp of how to play, you might have issues understanding how they play, but you can watch some video's to understand how people build chains (at the start), you could easily manage 5 chains with little effort here.

[K&D Profile]

Originally posted by Miuna:

Honestly, the best way to get better at Puyo in my eyes would be to play either Mini puyo (which gives you a large screen and the puyo's consume less space, point being it lets you learn to build chains), equally, play endless fever, it teaches you the basics of fever mode, real fever isn't so easy as endless but it again creates the understanding of how fever works, equally, if you pay attention in endless fever, you can learn chain patterns of building chains.

Honestly, it was a bad combination of games, the Puyo franchise in which the game is based of assumes you have basic puyo knowledge, the two game modes don't work side by side as damage distribution was always unmatched and disabling quick drop to any puyo vetern really was just an annoyance.

As said, i would try mini puyo mode to learn without having to play against people, gives you a chance to build chains, play endless fever to understand chain composition, then my advice would be try a few VS games against ai, just go against the ones who aren't very good, beginner AI like Amitie and Ringo usually go hand in hand with very slow drop speeds and max chains being of two.
Puyo is actually a very intelligent mode which requires massive amounts of thought into the future of every move you make, you will eventually find yourself trying to think how this block will drop when this chain breaks and try building that into a chain, but if you don't wanna be a expert or anything, just try learning to build 5 chains, this is normally enough to KO or destroy most AI, atleast screw them over for some time.
I first started Puyo back when the first fever game was released (early 2000's), i had played the original puyo a few times but only at a friends, i played fever with my brother and was dismayed by my constant 3 chains, against a more common 5, i found the best way to get better was to play more, sounds simple but fight enemies, get confident enough to try harder foes, accept a loss and keep trying, this method got me to playing how i am today, though i admit i have loved puyo since and played everyone of them released (even with JP imports)

A alternative method might be to try watching the experts on youtube play, whilst this works, it is relative to how your brain comprehends information, if you don't have a common grasp of how to play, you might have issues understanding how they play, but you can watch some video's to understand how people build chains (at the start), you could easily manage 5 chains with little effort here.

Great response man!!!! I would try puyo mini a few hours, also yes, damage distribution is pretty unfair within modes, mostly tetris against puyo, I sometimes can end a IA battle with only 2 tetris back to back