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The "Practice" mode in the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 versions is based on the 3 courses in Remix, with the characters who appear changed to the Sega Saturn version's added characters only in the closing stretch.
The practice mode is divided into 3 courses, as in the Super Famicom version of Remix, and the characters that appear are based on Remix, with the closing stretch changed to the Sega Saturn version's new characters.
Unlike the Sega Saturn version, in which the required scores for each floor were the same as in the arcade version, the specification was changed on the basis of the Game Gear version, with only floors 3 and 5 lowered slightly, and the experience required to make Masked Satan appear on floor 6 was raised to 230,000 EXP.
The ending follows the Game Boy version, but there is no staff roll; it was changed to show only the message "END".
This game, developed by 3D Ages, is a remake port of the PlayStation version Ketteiban. The character face graphics and the backgrounds during matches were changed to be almost the same as in the Windows 95 version, and the graphics and backgrounds for the manzai demos were also redrawn at higher resolution.
Puyo Puyo 2 was originally developed by Compile and released by Sega for arcades in 1994, and became the biggest arcade game to have been played in Japan since the arrival of Street Fighter II.
This game is the 2nd title in the falling-block puzzle game series Puyo Puyo, and the "tsu" in the title was given to mean that network versus play is possible and that it is for connoisseurs, and at the same time as a play on "two", which stands for 2 in English, and further on the "tsu" of Famitsu.
A member of Sega's arcade staff who saw this proposed to Compile the idea of 2 people lining up side by side to compete, and in the end the game was completed as a competitive game.
That title is the 1st title in the new SEGA AGES series that Sega Games has been running since 2018, and its content is a port of the arcade version.
The arcade version of this game made its chart debut at No. 4 in "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25", a ranking by the arcade game trade paper Game Machine dated 1994-11-1.
The Mega Drive version was the first of the ports, and is based on the arcade version.
"Tokoton Puyo Puyo" was added for the first time among the ports of Tsu, and the backgrounds are the ones original to the PC version.
Only one version of Puyo Puyo 2 was internationally released, and that was Puyo Pop for the Neo Geo Pocket Color, which was the first Puyo Puyo game to use the international title of Puyo Pop, but the third Western release after Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Kirby's Ghost Trap/Avalanche.
The Sega Mega Drive version of Puyo Puyo 2 saw a western release for the first time on March 10, 2008, on the Wii console's Virtual Console service, remaining untranslated.
The "Practice" mode in the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 versions is based on the 3 courses in Remix, with the characters who appear changed to the Sega Saturn version's added characters only in the closing stretch.
The practice mode is divided into 3 courses, as in the Super Famicom version of Remix, and the characters that appear are based on Remix, with the closing stretch changed to the Sega Saturn version's new characters.
The ending follows the Game Boy version, but there is no staff roll; it was changed to show only the message "END".
After becoming a hit as an arcade game, this game was ported to various platforms beginning with the Mega Drive, and the PlayStation version Puyo Puyo Tsu Ketteiban recorded million-seller sales.
On the other hand, in an interview in 2016 Masamitsu Niitani pointed to its sharpening as a competitive game, saying there was an aspect in which "if there is too much difference in ability between the two players, it does not make a match", and looked back on how he had made Pochitto Nya and Nyokinyoki with the aim of solving that.
In Japan, Game Machine listed Puyo Puyo 2 on their November 1, 1994 issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
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