Puyo Puyo Fever (ぷよぷよフィーバー), renamed Puyo Pop Fever for international release, is the fifth main installment in the Puyo Puyo series, originally developed for Sega NAOMI arcade hardware by Sonic Team. It was the first completely original Puyo Puyo title to be produced after the original developers, Compile, filed for bankruptcy.
Puyo Puyo Fever is as close as the series has come to a reboot, abandoning most of Compile's Madou Monogatari characters and settings in favour of a new, original cast engineered by Sonic Team. However saying this, the game's story still remains canon with prior games, as Arle and Carbuncle are transported to this new world after the former's magic fails.
(something about magical canes)
Gameplay
Fever is similar to all previous Puyo Puyo games, however now groups of puyo can also fall in threes or fours, and if enough rensa/offsets are performed and a Fever bar is filled up, allowing a character can make massive chains out of prebuilt boards for heavy damage.
New rules
If any of the columns marked with an X are blocked, the game ends.
Puyo can fall in groups of three or four as well as in groups of two. Groups of four appear as one large puyo whose color can be chosen by the player while the puyo falls.
On an all clear, a prearranged group of puyo will be given to you, set up to allow you to make even more damaging chains.
Under the next puyo indicator is the "Fever Bar," which gets filled with each chain. Once the bar is completely filled, you enter Fever Mode. In this mode, you get arrangements of puyo that allow you to make massive chains; after you make a chain of any number of rensas, a new arrangement is given. Fever Mode only lasts several seconds, and if you're fast enough, you can inflict massive damage to the other player.
Characters
Amitie
The main protagonist of the RunRun Course and WakuWaku Course. She is a naive student who wants to become a "wonderful magic user".
Fever play style: Well-Balanced Player
Raffina
The main protagonist of the HaraHara course. She is the rival of Amitie.
Fever play style: Only goes Big Chains
Arle
The protagonist of the previous Puyo Puyo games, who somehow ended up in Amitie's dimension alongside with Carbuncle.
Fever play style: Well-Balanced Player
Klug
An obnoxious boy with a fascination for dark magic.
Fever play style: Likes Large Chains
Lidelle
A shy elf girl.
Fever play style: Loves chains
Dapper Bones
A skeleton with a heavy fixation for fashion.
Fever play style: Build up to Fever
Onion Pixie
An oni with an onion head.
Fever play style: Constant Fever
Ocean Prince
A fish who is the prince of the ocean.
Fever play style: Build up to Fever
Donguri Gaeru
A frog who runs around in an acorn top.
Fever play style: Keep the pressure on!
Ms. Accord
The RunRun Course's final opponent. She is Amitie's teacher.
Fever play style: Only goes Big Chains
Tartar
A gentle male student.
Fever play style: Keep the pressure on!
Yu
A playful female ghost.
Fever play style: Constant Fever
Frankensteins
A father and son Frankenstein duo.
Fever play style: Keep the pressure on!
Hohow Bird
An anthropomorphic bird who thinks he's a superhero.
Fever play style: Constant Fever
Popoi
The final opponent in the WakuWaku and HaraHara Courses. He is Ms. Accord's "pet" cat.
Fever play style: Constant Fever
Carbuncle
The HaraHara Course's secret final opponent.
Fever play style: Well-Balanced Player?
History
Legacy
Puyo Puyo Fever was ported to the Sega Dreamcast in early 2004, and stands as the last first-party Japanese game to be released for the console.
It was also released for Windows PCs and Palm OS. It was possible to buy the Mac OS X version with bundled Sega Saturn controller, adpted for the computer and manufactured in white to match the rest of the system[29].
It would also be one of the only few Puyo Puyo games to see an international release with the original series roots intact, seeing releases in Europe on all non-Sega consoles and in North America exclusively on the GameCube and DS.