Puzzle Fighter vs Puyo Pop

[Brand X]

I actually just played a ton of Puyo in Dr Mean Bean Machine form, and damn did I whooped his ass. I forgot how great that game is. I still prefer Puzzle Fighter due to the depth though.

[Bacon McShig]

Being a huge tetris attack fan, and reading this thread, I'm totally kicking myself for never having played either of these.

I like both the games this thread is comparing, but Tetris Attack blows away both of them.

[Cowutopia]

Oh. Well then I don't feel so bad.

[Jester]

Puyo Puyo Fever is tops for me, I have it on my Mac and will probably buy it for either the DS or the PSP.

[Do You Like Erotic?]

I knew this thread would be a trainwreck when I saw it. One side says the other side has no strategy, regardless of what side you're on, and that's the only arguments that you present.

I play both games, even though I'm fucking ACE at Puzzle Fighter and pretty poor at Puyo Pop and I can honestly say that both games have a great deal of strategy involved in them. Both games do, saying one game doesn't, regardless of the side of your argument, completely drowns you out in a sea of your own closed-mindedness.

I'll say this, for years, I played puzzle fighter thinking it was the ultimate puzzle game, and then I went to Evo2004 and I saw a guy exploiting a loophole in the game, and then he explained it to me and it worked. I sealed it in a lockbox, so don't even ask me to say it, almost ruined the game for me. Most people already know it by now. This loophole does completely erase the strategy element out of the game, for the simple fact that if your opponent doesn't know it, or doesn't choose to play like that as well, he'll lose everytime.

Now anyway, rating the games as to which one is better, I like puzzle fighter better just for the sake of the aesthetics and quality. It's a far more visually entertaining game, aside from the amount of learning required to actually get good. It has cool things like drop patterns, that serve to differentiate each character and each of their patterns, and it also has *the best* music of any puzzle game ever.

Better puzzle game? I don't know. So I guess I've contributed nothing

[Tain]

The answer is quite clear.

Devil Dice is the better puzzle game.

[Mzo]

I'll say this, for years, I played puzzle fighter thinking it was the ultimate puzzle game, and then I went to Evo2004 and I saw a guy exploiting a loophole in the game, and then he explained it to me and it worked. I sealed it in a lockbox, so don't even ask me to say it, almost ruined the game for me. Most people already know it by now. This loophole does completely erase the strategy element out of the game, for the simple fact that if your opponent doesn't know it, or doesn't choose to play like that as well, he'll lose everytime.

Is it dropping everything to the sides as fast as possible, then using a diamond to get rid of an entire color?

[Do You Like Erotic?]

More or less.

[Mzo]

One of my friends figured it out in college. I never beat him again after. It really made me stop playing the game.

[RoleTroll]

Is it dropping everything to the sides as fast as possible, then using a diamond to get rid of an entire color?

I would do that with Puyo Puyo. I'd pick a couple colors, and throw the ones predominantly of those colors quickly to one side, then deal with the others on the other side. It made it more manageable when the game moves quickly, and combos tend to happen fairly regularly without having to think about it.