The Most Powerful Characters In Gaming Ever # 30 

"The Carbuncle ate itself." - An actual line of dialogue from Sonic Shuffle

Carbuncle is so powerful that he can destroy every Puyo player in existence, but he loves the game so much that he's content to watch from the sidelines.... and only play with those who stand even a ghost of a chance of besting him. I like characters like that.

2:57 “Man, look at this game. Look at how adorable these characters and how vibrant the colours are. How could this possibly have such a devilish opponent that will make any player quake in his boots?” Basically every Kirby game that has Galacta Knight in it in a nutshell.

Don’t let this make you forget Git tried to voice all of the characters on Puyo

7:35 Ms. Accord is probably the reason why caning in schools got outlawed I’m dying

Carbuncle: *Ta-da da?* Raffine: I can't stack garbage poyos without getting closer

You should have a series called "Bad Ass Cuties in Video Games" and show how all characters that have adorable appearances can be really OP.

From what I can tell about Puyo lore, Carbuncle was the Devil's pet before he got bored and allowed Arle to liberate him. So I'm not surprised he has devilishly hard AI. Oh, and the act of creating Puyo chains and popping them recharges your MP in the Puyo universe, letting you cast spells. So not only is he a smart little bastard, he's charging up his Ultima or his Doombolts or his whatever spells to actually kill you with his intelligence too

I never actually knew that carby was cheating or using hacks. He should be banned. Also I remember when git was trying to voice the puyo characters lol What a good time.

Puyo content! Some newer puyo games actually have a "Core AI" hidden setting that can be activated by pressing some button in the character select screen. If you want to suffer a bit more, Core AI is merciless and usually much more difficult than this. Edit: 200 likes!!

Raffine's had it rough. It's not just her PPF1 route having some of the toughest AI opponents, but she's also been pushed more and more to the sidelines as later Puyo games added more main characters that are more suited to the role than her in terms of personality. And as the games keep moving further and further away from the Fever world, Raffine will continue to have less things to do with the plot until she's finally benched alongside Lidelle. Oh, la-ti-da :(

3:14 I can't believe Schezo is fricking dead.

So can we just talk about how *awesome* Popoi's theme is? Because a song THAT metal doesn't belong in a game this "moe" looking. (i still love it)

3:21 WHAT THE---???. Why is there something like that on a E-Rated Game???

Puyo puyo sun? That story in the English translation has to be one of the funniest things I've seen in a long while. Especially sczheos story of him being *weird*

7:22 yep. That is the best part of the game. Raffine gets a whack in the head for learning some top secret thing about Ms. Accord. Or something.

I have some good news for Carby. He'll be a separate character from Arle again in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (unlike the original PPT).

13:24 "Not worth the trouble!" Definitely what you'd be saying if you spent like an entire day with no breaks trying to beat that.

3:18 hey kids remember when puyo puyo had decapitation? Good times

Small chain spam was how I finished Mean Bean Machine on Expert. Feel a bit dirty now, in a chaotic good sort of way

"Ms. Accord is probably why caning is banned in schools" I would have shit myself laughing if I wasn't on the toilet.

I've never been good at puzzle games, so the insanity puyo puyo players have pulled off before is mindboggling.

you're god damn right about carbuncle

You know it's good when you see caebuncoul on the thumbnail. Finally some more puyo puyo on this channel again.

"Ms. Accord is probably the reason why caning in schools got outlawed" I was literally threatened to be caned while in Primary School. If caning is illegal in your part of the world, I don't know what my government was thinking.

Glad to see more love for Raffina.

3:15 .....*i have several questions*

"an ai that holds nothing back" *Sees Puyo Puyo *I'm scared.*

3:15 *"PUYOPOP DECAPITATION!!!"*

7:40 wait if you use a lot of continues and be bad in the game, the game punishes you by giving you a harder boss!? SEGA! THAT’S EVIL!!!!

*sees thumbnail* Wait, I don't remember Carbuncle having a difficult boss fi- *remembers fever* Oh god not again

OMG I HATED CARBUNCLE IN THIS GAME, HE'S SO BROKEN THAT I CAN BARELY WIN 1 OUT OF 15 MATCHES OR SO AGAINST HIM

Wow. This didn't dissapoint at all! It reminds me when I first watched you in your analysis of von Karma EDIT: The only thing we have on AI's is that most of them only do one thing amd one thing only. The thing is that 5 of them can do better than a human with flawless communication.

You can also unlock Carbuncle as a secret boss in Puyo Sun on Arle's story, however it requires you to continue 20+ times so in my opinion, it's just better to go with the Schezo story requirement.

Back when I played this game a lot I would try to win against Popoi and Carbuncle at once with one CPU at my side. Beating them is one of my biggest gaming achievements. :) Agree with you that Puyo Pop Fever is the best game in the series. Love how the characters are written and it's the best game to get into the series (With fever mode it's easier to recover from big attacks). Hope Sega will re-release this one and it's sequel sometime in the future considering how well the series is doing these last few years.

To this Day I STILL CANT BEAT THAT YELLOW MARSHMALLOW

Puyo Puyo content is always nice! I used to play this game a lot as a child, and thinking about it now, I was in my peak performance... I somehow kept up with the pace of Accord/Popoi/Carbuncle at Very Hard difficultly. As an adult, I can't even try to go thru the entire Very Hard adventure!

I fucking swear, those "Ta-da"s are gonna have to qualify for a "Leave My Ears Alone".

Yes! I love this series!

Something about the AI in puzzle games tends to be very nasty at the highest levels. Take a look at how the Red Virus plays in Tetris & Dr. Mario for the SNES. It drops its capsules at maximum speed all the time, and pretty much never slows down unless there's no good place to put one. The AI in the Puzzle League games is no slouch at the highest levels either, though it's not perfect. Matches against Carbuncle kinda remind me of that: either you get the AI to screw up and lose within the first 30 seconds or you're in for a world of hurt. I think that Carbuncle might top these though, because the odds are stacked against you in Puyo Pop Fever (you have 5 colors on your board, he has only 4.)

In the words of our heroine Raffine, "Eggs apple!" ...what, I can't be the only one hearing her say that, right?

Thanks for giving me an Idea of a ds game i can play

God Puyo Pop Fever. Once you started hearing those lightning strikes, it was pretty much over for you.

You need to do Shovel Knight Showdown’s Specter Knight, that thing is BROKEN.

Puyo? Well this is a surprise, and a welcome one at that

Normally in harahara, you can only play as raffine. But did you know, in the DS version, you can actually play through harahara with a random set of characters by inputting a bug? and it's easy to do it Only in the DS version... Go into free play mode first. Then on the character select screen, choose (!) for both you and the CPU to start the game. Once you started the match, quit and go back to the main screen. Then start a new game for harahara. You can now proceed to play the game as a randomly selected characters for each stage. This only affects Harahara and not the easy/normal modes Nothing much happens, except those randomly selected characters will have raffine's win quotes.

Puyo. Puyo. 2. I know you already did a video on that but imo it's harder than fever. I don't even know how to make longer chains lmao

This series is my fav

So Raffina is one of your waifus right? I prefere Draco.

oooh they're the same as Popoitto! I still have the game for playstation, no idea where my parents found it, but I loved it so much (even if you can't save, kinda annoying)

The best part of the carbuncle battle is the fact of the music playing is a speeded-up version from first floor of puyo puyo 2

7:32 - 7:35 Never thought I’d see *that* out of Professor Accord. 😂 11:32 You’d be surprised how many Raffina fans there are, if you look hard enough, especially amongst those who’ve only played Puyo Puyo Tetris.

Can-na-DA! Can-NA-DA! CAN-NA-DA! I can't stop hearing that!

Oh god Carbuncle.... still have PTSD flashbacks of facing him in the DS version. I actually ended up doing a few two chains, then building a 3 chain and trying to time the drop for when his stack was just at the top of the screen to snipe kill him.

If you didn't mention Gen 1 AI in Pokemon should've. Sure it can be really dumb, but it can also be incerdibly smart.

A fighting game series that will kick your ass with difficult bosses is definitely The King of Fighters games (especially 2002 UM)

Jeez! I can understand Sun's conditions for fighting Carbuncle, but what's up with Fever's? 7:41 is like some kind of ritual or something. There's no way to fight him by mistake. You know what you're doing, and bringing him to our dimension to defeat him once and for all.

I can now tell you carbuncle will one day rule over primp town.

There's been a lot of testing in the Starcraft community lately about Alphastar, a new AI who can compete at professional levels. While previous AI players had to be augmented by giving them unfair advantages like extra resources, this one wins legitimately with terrific micromanagement of individual units. I don't know if Carbuncle can be considered the same since he either predicts what pieces he'll get ahead of time or much like AI in many Yu Gi Oh games, will always get the Puyo/card they want. Or maybe they were just trying to emulate the animes that way. If you can, try playing Tetris Attack's story mode. Partway through, it throws you into a 'hopeless boss fight' against Bowser with a 'perfect' AI meant to humble you, but I've always wanted to see someone beat it (not sure if difficulty setting affects it, Very Hard mode is tough enough with the fights you're supposed to win).

truly awesome, who here is a puyo fan?

...can I get THIS Carbuncle as a summon? Mass reflect is nice and all but *holy shit* Edit: Just like Rivals AC, you had to win by exploiting an AI flaw (putting a few garbage puyos in the middle of his combo)

So the hardest fight in the game isn't Satan himself, but a Carbuncle? Curse these cutesy games...

It's explainable since "Has Bean" is the main protagonist in Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine

Carbuncle is cute and strong and is Arle's sidekick. They both were separated during Yo~n and Fever. They reunite in Fever 2.

I don't have any experience with the Puyo Puyo series outside of Puyo Puyo Tetris and the original SNES game, so it's cool to see some of the other games in the franchise like this!

oh dude, Raffine used to be my favorite. It's been more than ten years and I still suck at this game tho

I would argue Carbuncle’s strategy in Sun of repeatedly doing low chains is a better strategy than large ones. You get the game’s sun puyo for offsetting garbage while there’s some in your queue, so it maximizes the amount he can get. The sun puyos also increase damage, dealing more damage the later into the chain they’re cleared so it’s better for him to gain a backlog of sun puyos and then use them in his 1 chains to deal larger amounts of damage fast. Also I think part of the reason he’s so hard in Fever is that you play with 5 colors and he plays with 4. Yes really. In Sun you played with 5 and he played with 3.

2:05 Fighting games in a nutshell.

Mortal Kombat Trilogy? Instant like

I don't think I could ever play these games, keeping track of all that stuff on screen at once that quickly is something I would need an entire second brain to do.

When he say'd "Ta-Da" i felt that

Fun fact abouy Puyo Puyo fever for the DS: Changing the language to Japanese actually adds extra diffculty. This is seen with certain characters like Raffina, Klug, Arle, Amite, and Ocean Prince.

You should talk about more games with characters with an AI over 9000, with boss characters specifically (COUGH) KING OF FIGHTERS (COUGH)

Found out where that puyo puyo decapitation image is from, noice.

This whole game also qualifies for Leave My Ears Alone, good god

Yukari : ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT ?

This AI and stuff reminds me of a superboss from Demon's Crest,that boss is the damn hell on Earth

Imagine facing Arle in this game. Maybe she's got a Praetor Suit after kicking Ma'Oh's teeth in.

Carbuncle makes me want to throw it down the stairs, hit it with an HP attack, then use a better Carbuncle to reduce its Bravery to 0 before my Bravery starts recovering.

Now, there's this guy named Wumbotize... Who beat a machine designed to fucking destroy everyone in Puyo Puyo Tetris, has gotten the max amount of points in PPT MANY times, and even then his strong is Tetris. But I see him being on this rabbit's level.

The first Puyo game I ever set my eyes on was 20th anniversary. I got used to the voice acting there. I heard the English voice acting for Puyo Puyo Tetris. I enjoyed it. But the one of Fever. I didn’t have high expectations. It actually exceeded my expectations. But I personally didn’t enjoy Carbuncle’s “Ta-Da!” Over his original “Gu-gu!” Although, I personally really like Accord’s voice a lot. But that’s one dang terrifying of a teacher, a puppet, and a... thing. Yeah, I don’t remember Carbuncle ever being specified as anything... please refresh my memory, if there is a classification.

"We should be thankful that computers allow us to continue existing, because if there really was a war between humans and machines, I don't fancy our chances at all." Who knows, maybe we ARE in a silent war already xD

Accord commits amnesia to look innocent

I tried playing a very hard run of puyo pop fever on a rom with only winning after continuing on specific numbers like the video said and got to carbungle and it took me about 5 hours of countless atempts to finally beat him but i beat him by out chaining him. Curious about how many attempts this took in the video to beat carbungle on very hard.

Carbuncle destroyer of worlds

2:00 that is only half true in games that timing is very important AI will have a massive advantage but in games that don't even the best AIs cannot beat us (usually)

0:57 POWEEEEEEER

I get Kirby vibes from him. He's cute, and to someone unfamiliar with Puyo lore, like me, he would look pretty harmless. Then you go against him and it just falls apart from there. Like, did this guy take notes from Kirby or something?

Geez, Dark Link's a pushover compared to Carbuncle.

Proof that Carbuncle is an all powerful chaos god.

I'm waiting for Heaven Ascension DIO to be covered but if you don't want to include multiple characters from one series/game, that's completely understandable.

Don't get me wrong, but Carbuncle is arguably the toughest opponent you'll ever face in Puyo Puyo Fever

Sooo, from what i understand, you have to beat carbuncle mostly by random chance? Ouch...

Oh shit, Hi, Carby! Holy shit. Just saw decapitated Schezo. Anyway, when’s Arle gonna show up on the list of OP characters? In Madou Monogatari, she not only decapitated Schezo, but also single-handedly defeated the god of her timeline, with the only consequence being Doppelgänger Arle in Yo~N. Also, you’re playing Sun 64, by far the worst version of Puyo Puyo Sun (outside of the Gameboy port, which is good in it’s own right.) Puyo Sun Kebbitan on the Playstation controls better, if you’re emulating.

I never saw Raffina as a bitchy tsundere. I guess that makes two of us~

man I wish I was good at puyo but my planning ahead skills are not ideal

Do a video about that lovely gorey image in puyo puyo.

Money doesn't matter: rich people Looks don't matter: attractive people Ta da da: the god of hyper death

Carbuncle: The god of Puyo Puyo Sun and Fever.

The secret final boss of the Asian difficulty setting