Puyo Puyo vs Puzzle Fighter

[William Shakesman]

Curious what the guys crazy enough to play Puyo Puyo to mastery thinking of Puzzle Fighter.

[aaaaa]

Puzzle Fighter is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ unbalanced mess of a Puyo clone

[Jayverest <3]

Why even compare the two really

They have almost completely different physics

[William Shakesman]

You do realize the last Puyo Puyo game mixed it with Tetris, right?

[WitherLord]

Originally posted by William Shakesman:

You do realize the last Puyo Puyo game mixed it with Tetris, right?

Chronicle didn't have Tetris ;)

[William Shakesman]

[1.2M | Missingno.]

I enjoyed fooling around in Puzzle Fighter casually, but I don't think it really holds up well as a serious competitive game. Defense is nearly impossible - attacks resolve much faster on average so you rarely get time to respond, even when you do you're entirely dependent on circle piece RNG to allow you to even do anything, and to top it all off there's a 50% penalty on offsetting.

[Letobrick]

IIRC Puzzle Fighter was a mobile-only game and its online servers were shut down last year.. I think the closet comparison here would be Crystal Crisis.

[1.2M | Missingno.]

Puzzle Fighter was a 1996 arcade game. We don't talk about that mobile abomination.

[shoe]

Puzzle fighter is pretty much just build fullscreen attack and leave column 3 empty. Anyone can do this easily, so the skill ceiling is probably pretty low. There isn't really room for improvement or optimization.

Fullscreen attack is the only thing you do. Chains are bad since opponent can set off their attack while your chain is resolving, cutting your damage output to 50%.