| Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary | |
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| Developer(s) | Sonic Team |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Series | Puyo Puyo |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii |
| Release date(s) | Nintendo DS
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer, online multiplayer |
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Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary (ぷよぷよ! Puyopuyo!) is a sub-story of the Puyo Puyo series, developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Wii. As with many other games in the series, it has not been released outside of Japan for any consoles. This is the first Puyo Puyo game to be released on the Wii console. The game was endorsed by Yuri Ebihara[1].
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Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary was created by Sonic Team to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of Puyo Puyo. It includes most of the Fever characters plus six of the characters from the Madou series; they are said to have fell from the sky into Primp Town, the primary setting of the Fever series games. There are a total of twenty-two characters in this game.
Ms. Accord, the teacher at the Primp Magic School, informs Sig that there will be a tournament up for play, and everyone's competing; the reward is a medal that will grant anyone's single wish. Another scene shows Amitie and Arle pledging to play by the rules, and Sig, still as clueless as ever, eventually plegdes as well, but not before witnessing six comets fall down onto Earth. Sig, realising that this is a big discovery, decides to ignore it anyhow and goes onto the competition. It turns out that the "comets" are actually six familiar characters from the Madou series, who serve as boss characters in the story modes.
15th Anniversary has a slew of new modes, and also includes modes that emulate the original Puyo Puyo, Puyo Puyo Tsu and Puyo Puyo Fever.
The DS version of 15th Anniversary supports all multiplayer modes that the DS officially supports.
In this mode, players without a copy of 15th Anniversary can play along with those that do. The only difference between playing with a copy and without a copy is that the download and play version does not contain voices or battle animations. The game is functionally compatible, for the most part. Therefore, both the DS Download and Play modes and direct connection modes are accessible from here.
Up to 8 players can play and in any mode that the amount of players permits. However, for technical reasons (such as alternative drawing methods being used in 8-player mode to keep the game from lagging), you can only play Puyo Puyo, Puyo Puyo TSU, and Puyo Puyo Fever modes in games with more than four players.
In this mode, you can use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection to verse players across the internet. WiFi mode supports only 3 modes (Puyo Puyo, Puyo Puyo 2, and Puyo Puyo Fever). You can play games of between two and four players, either with your friends using the Friend Code system or against random opponents. When playing random games, three-player mode and the original Puyo Puyo rules are not available, and you can earn (or lose!) points if playing a two-player game.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary for the DS had several issues.
In the original release of Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary, a bug existed where data would could not be saved more than 255 times.[2] A new version, nicknamed 1.1, was released to solve the problem on January 20, 2007. Information on how to find out the game version and instructions on how to get replacement can be found on Sega's website.
In both of these versions existed yet another bug, this one effecting WiFi. When a player disconnected, both lost points. Recently, a new version was released to solve this problem.
While playing multiplayer games, the fever meter will occasionally freeze on 7 points without letting you into fever mode. It will subsequently let you in after your next move, but this may be deadly depending on the circumstances. This bug can also be seen in version 2.00 of the PC version of Puyo Pop Fever.
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