puyo puyo tetris - 7/10
my beautiful wife appears to have driven me insane by being better than me
has made me enter at least three joker-tier episodes of pure mania. this is a genuine glowing endorsement as if it was of low quality, or unenjoyable, i would have simply turned the game off. no, instead it is so utterly captivating that i continued a rather thorough enjoyment of it, despite me cackling and spurting out utter nonsense every time that my noodley hands dared to misplace or bugger up yet another t-spin.
as is the case with many other reviews, the online matchmaking with randoms is for toffee. don't engage with it, frankly, unless you are alex thach. you got some friends, though? that's a hell of a night waiting to happen, man. and if you don't got none of those, then the story mode will sufficiently tide you over with the old rouge's gallery of puyo story characters for those returning to that side of the game, and some new original characters for the tetris folk. they went far harder on the story than was truly required of them for a puyo-tetris hybrid, but it comes out pretty nice!
overall, my experience with puyotet has been strong so far, despite my arguably pitiable playtime at the time of writing; should anything influence my experience in my later playing that makes it anything less than stellar, i shall update the review accordingly, but i don't foresee that needing to be the case. the game is wondrous. please buy it and play it, it's a fun, colorful tetris game, and probably one of my favorite executions of puyo yet. (doesn't mean i don't still blow at it, though.)
