Puyo Puyo Tsuu

About

Puyo Puyo Tsuu is a competitive puzzle game where players battle by matching colorful puyos to clear their grid while bombarding opponents with debris. The goal is to connect four or more puyos in a line or shape, creating chains that send blocks to the rival’s board. As your grid fills, you risk losing if it overflows, making every move a balance between offense and defense. The single-player tower mode tasks you with defeating waves of foes, earning experience points to progress through floors. Each level forces you to meet specific EXP targets or face a final boss, with failure meaning an immediate game over. The tower’s roulette-based opponent selection and escalating difficulty add strategy beyond the core puzzle mechanics. Released in 1994 for arcade and Sega Saturn, it blends simple rules with deep competitive play. Players appreciate the tight controls and the psychological edge of anticipating when to unleash big chain attacks. While its visual style feels dated, the game remains a staple in puzzle fighting circles, with some floors requiring precise resource management to unlock. The multiplayer focus makes it a niche pick, but the single-player campaign offers lasting challenge for those who dig into its structure.

Storyline

As opposed to the first game's linear Scenario mode, Tsu's main mode is a tower where Arle Nadja selects opponents to battle via roulette. Each "floor" of the tower has an EXP total that the player must reach in order to advance. If the player defeats all of a floor's opponents without meeting the goal, one final opponent will appear. If, after defeating this extra opponent, the player still fails to meet the goal, Arle is booted from the tower and the game ends.