I feel bad for the Puyo players.

[Ace]

They essentially got endless free wins for nothing and never had to earn a single damn thing, and sega never fixed it even after tons of people complained that puyo was clearly overpowered. The win rates are something like 85% Puyo just because one mini-chain can fill up an entire tetris players board, whereas a full tetris attack can be discarded with one quickly thrown together puyo chain. A tetris player has to hit multiple tetris's in a row to get an attack off, which wouldn't be so bad if setting up something like that REQUIRED taking up half of the board, which puts you in the danger zone where just basic color stacking by a puyo player will become an unstoppable tide of 3-4 lines raising every few seconds.

And this isn't "Oh I lost my game boo hoo" This is coming from someone who plays BOTH games, and it feels bad for ME when I'm playing against someone who is WELL ahead of me in score, by a HUGE margin, and I'm completely safe all game and they're struggling to get a single tetris between all of the bumps.

Being able to choose to play ONLY against tetris would have been a nice patch but instead Sega, being the absolute walking mistakes that they are, decided to sell an entirely different game with no differences. You know, like the stains on gaming they've become.

[Miuna]

"Puyo over powered" .. you played the same game right? The majority of complaints was 100% the opposite, sega had to try to find ways in PT2 to help balance the two which resulted in minor nerfs to tetris, like half the reviews (bad) was puyo < Tetris because any decent tetris could t-spin a Puyo user out the game within a few moves.

This was only added to the fact that garbage blocks puyo players playing (as it should) whilst comes from under tetris users which doesn't hinder them at all aside obviously when they pile out. Heck it was complained that sometimes it could help them get tetris(s) with ease.

The big reason puyo only and tetris only was added to 2 was to ease the balance so less puyo vs tetris happened as it was considered incompatible in balance... which it is.

[lukefile]

this game is out .... 75 online player.... zero competition, i am new in pvp tetris, and only match with pro player, zero fun .....

[Sky]

Tetris players don't get blocked unlike Puyo players. As a person who can make 5-chains (sometimes 6-chains -- anything beyond that is probably luck) against another Puyo player, I struggle against a strong Tetris player like Feli or Ex when they constantly spam trash at me. My max chains get reduced to the bare minimum triple (quadruple if I'm lucky), and whenever I actually get a chain off, it usually just gives them free Tetrises to turn back into garbage on my side.

Puyo players have to chain to win. The key to getting good attacks is to think and move quickly. There is very little room for error, but if you survive a 5-chain, you usually have some time to attack before the next 5-chain (and if you send enough trash, there will be no "next 5-chain"). Basically, think of this as an Ultra game mode: you have to send enough attacks in a certain time frame to prevent your opponent from getting big chains.

Also, don't do 4-wide or anything. As a Tetris player, weak but consistent attacks are better than strong stockpiles when it comes to Tetris vs PuyoPuyo.

I got frustrated when battling Schezo or the Dark Prince as Puyo players when I was playing Tetris since I was trying to combo it, but after I switched to Tetrises, it became a lot easier (not a guarantee win, but significantly higher win rate, from ~5% to about 80%). Usually, a single Tetris quickly followed by a double Tetris (comboed) is enough, but that depends on RNG and your opponent.

[skunkmommy]

They actually had to nerf tetris (except for some reason party mode doesn't have the tetris nerfs) because everyone complains it's too OP. I say complains because it's still too OP. You're probably just only getting matched with noobs online.