Watching this video again really just puts into perspective how big Puyo Puyo is / was in Japan. Like this was 1997?! With huge events and commentators and a live crowd. Maybe one day I can dream of Puyo being this large in the west...
Given how much the Puyo meta has changed it now feels weird to see someone building Stairs in a final match. (Also, think of this. Puyo Puyo was being broadcast live before Starcraft was even released)
0:10 And, like a pheonix rising from the ashes, a Puyo Puyo legend is summoned into this world to bring justice to the gaming community, as "Brave of Puyo Puyo" is playing. The Puyo Puyo community is freaking incredible, no joke. You don't even see this kind of stuff in a Melee tournament.
Wow!! This is really the most epic tournament of a video game i have ever seen!! Im glad Puyo Puyo is this big in Japan, its perfect for competition. The entrance was epic too lol.
I can't help but see, in the year 2020, how far e-sports broadcasting has come. A lot of the outside-the-game elements are cool, but the fact the game remains absolutely tiny for the vast majority of the match so we can see the players staring at the screen is deeply frustrating, it's hard to even see what they're doing a lot of the time.
@@roccoanthony8930 , no, Tetris is a lot better and Puyo Puyo is a lot more limited in structure. Please remind me of what not only the top puzzle game franchise, but also one of the top five biggest, as well as top five most iconic, video game franchises of all time is in video game standings and history? Oh, wait, none of those things apply to Puyo Puyo games.
It's so weird there's no puyo puyo representation of any kind in smash, considering that Arle is such an iconic character in Japan (and thanks to puyo puyo Tetris, she was known a bit more in the west); there's not even a spirit, it makes you wonder if Nintendo /Sega were against it or if something else was going on at the time
Seeing the way the blue player plays, I'm surprised he got as far as he did. He pretty much stacked the bottom every time. The other player was much more unpredictable, even launching a few early heavy chains and coming out of a few scrapes. All I'm saying is, you have to have some back-up methods if your initial approach doesn't pan out. If you cover the bottom row with about 2 layers of ojama, the blue player would have been hard-pressed to have come up with something else quickly.
@@Jonny_. , and yet the first Puyo Puyo game did indeed have not only an English translation in the arcade, but that it also got released in the NTSB-U region...weird.
Wish it was as big in the west screw the world cup, screw the olympics. Tune into the puyo world championships. Not that I dislike the olympics or the world cup b4 anyone starts.
Good thing that we still have Sega making these Puyo Puyo games for us. This game may not be popular in the USA at that time but it surely was popular in Japan so Compile should be receiving lots of money for this.
If I remember right...They weren't the best with Money, but they took out a lot of loans and overextended, then gave the rights to Sega 'temporarily' to ease their burden, but were unable to prevent their bankruptcy. As a result, Sega kept the rights ever since. They later reformed into Compile Heart, and have been working on a bunch of JRPGs like Fairy Fencer F and the Neptunia series.
@@shiftfire4511 Adding to that is their hyper-saturation of Puyo Puyo. IIRC they got so bad with it that they had two Game Gear games come out weeks apart at one point.
I used almost the same strategy as the guy on the right as a kid, but I usually had a couple extra combos at the end of the domino sends at the bottom.
Mean Bean Machine (and Avalanche) are Americanized clones of the prequel to this game. In fact this game has a SERIES. puyonexus.net/intro/ (*USE THE LINKS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE!*)
@@RoddyDev To answer the four-year old question: yes, there are still Puyo tournaments. They play on Puyo Puyo Champions for PS4 / Switch these days, not like the Super Famicom version seen in this vid. :D
@吉川りくそん, ヨッシー、この試合はかなり均等だったので、1997年にテレビでこのイベントを見たり、トーナメントが開催された場所に住んでいない限り、これはかなり均等だったと確信しています。 ぷよぷよトーナメントでの対戦。 Yosshī, kono shiai wa kanari kintōdattanode, 1997-nen ni terebide kono ibento o mi tari, tōnamento ga kaisai sa reta basho ni sunde inai kagiri, kore wa kanari kintōdatta to kakushin shite imasu. Puyopuyo tōnamento de no taisen. @Yoshikawa Rukison, I do not know, Yoshi, this match was a pretty even match, so unless you saw this event on a television back in 1997, and/or live at wherever that they held the tournament, then I am convinced that this was a pretty even match up in the Puyo Puyo Tournament.
HIKAJO I only know about the left one but it's basically the spells the characters chant in-game Ei! Fire! Ice Storm! Diacute! Braindumbed! Jugemu! Bayoen!
Labyrinthia Rosenfeld Wow, I'm so glad I wrote that comment, I didn't have any hope of someone replying because it's an old video but there you are. Thank you very much.
How come neither of them went for All Clears? Sure, in the long run, they wouldn't have really mattered, but for quick attacks, they could have been pretty deadly.
