Thread by @gosokkyu

I'm not too fussed about the designation, but I really do think it's time for another Fever-style refresh, and maybe even one made overseas

mechanics-wise, hell if I know—I don't think the genre's been tapped out, necessarily, but how do you even match Tsu, let alone top it?

https://twitter.com/zanverse/status/1346554866278297602

like, think about just how many different rules Puyo has messed with, let alone all the clones and ripoffs and fan games and whatever else, and the only alternatives that ppl have ever seriously entertained are Fever (which took a minute to catch on) & PPT Swap (if that counts)

coming up with new stuff is hard & it can be hard to gauge just how much demand there is for something original to begin with

the other more pragmatic issue is that, aside from Tetris, Puyo's the only game in this genre that can still maintain traditional full-price games, but…

…they're very aware that it may only take one misstep to destroy the commercial viability of the series, and once it goes away there's a good chance it won't come back, which in turn leads to a certain amount of conservatism that keeps the games from evolving or experimenting

re: the number, Compile deliberately went with Tsu instead of 2 bc they didn't think the game was new enough to warrant that number, and yet the later games that did get a 2 (Fever 2, PPT2) are both games that are transparent rehashes coasting on the success of previous games