Puyo Pop Fever

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Puyo Puyo Fever/Puyo Pop Fever
System(s): Sega NAOMI, Sega Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Xbox, Xbox 360 (Xbox Originals/Games on Demand), OS X, Pocket PC, Palm OS, Windows
Publisher: Sega Sega PC Atlus (US)
Developer: Sonic Team ENTER, Inc. Milestone
Distributor: THQ (Europe) Ignition Entertainment (Europe, except Spain) Virgin Play (Spain)
Peripherals supported: Jump Pack, Visual Memory Unit, Dreamcast VGA Box
Genre: Action Puzzle, Puzzle
Number of players: 1-2 1-8
Release Date RRP Code JP 2003-11 ¥? 841-0006C JP 2003 ¥? GDS-0031 JP 2004-02-04 ¥4,980 (5,229)4,980 (5,229) SLPM-65532 JP (The Best) 2005-02-04 ¥2,667 (2,800)2,667 (2,800) SLPM-74210 EU 2004-02-27 SLES-51951 INL-P51951-EUR EU (Promo) 2004 SLES-51951 DE 2004-02-27 SLES-51951 INL-P51951-GER AU 2004 SLES-51951 INL-P51951-EUR JP 2004-02-24 ¥4,980 (5,229)4,980e HDR-0216 JP (Dorikore) 2005-02-04 ¥2,667 (2,800)2,667e HDR-0217 JP 2004-03-24 ¥4,980 (5,229)4,980e DOL-P-GPYJ DOL-GPYJ-JPN JP (Okaidoku-ban) 2005-02-04 ¥2,667 (2,800)2,667 (2,800) DOL-P-GPYJ DOL-GPYJ-JPN-1 US 2004-07-20 $29.9529.95 DOL-P-GPUE DOL-GPUE-USA EU 2004-02-27 DOL-P-GPUP DOL-GPUP-EUR DE 2004-02-26 DOL-P-GPUP DOL-GPUP-EUR JP 2004-04-24 ¥4,980 (5,229)4,980e Z75-00001 EU 2004-02-27 INL-X03902-EU SE03902E-SE DE 2004-02-27 INL-X03902-EU SE03902E-SE AU 2004 JP ▼ 2007-12-04 1,200MSP1,200 JP 2004-07-24 ¥4,800 (5,040)4,800 (5,040) AGB-P-BPFJ AGB-BPFJ-JPN EU (FR/NL) 2005-03-24 AGB-P-BPFP AGB-BPFP-FAH EU (ES/IT) 2005-03-24 AGB-P-BPFP AGB-BPFP-EUR DE 2005-03-24 AGB-P-BPFP AGB-BPFP-NOE UK 2005-03-24 £24.9924.99 AGB-P-BPFP AGB-BPFP-UKV JP 2004-09-24 ¥4,980 (5,229)4,980e HCJ-0358 JP (Pad Doukon-ban) 2004-09-24 ¥6,980 (7,329)6,980e HCJ-0362 JP (Kakaku Kaiteihan) 2008-03-19 ¥2,480 (2,604)2,480e HCJ-0420 JP 2004-06-24 ¥4,980 (5,229)4,980e HCJ-0356 JP (Pad Doukon-ban) 2004-06-24 ¥6,980 (7,329)6,980e HCJ-0357 JP 2004-12-24 ¥4,800 (5,040)4,800 (5,040) ULJM-05007 EU (ES/PT) 2005 ULES-00294 DE 2005 ULES-00294 FR 2005 ULES-00294 UK 2005-05-19 £29.9929.99 ULES-00294 IT 2005 ULES-00294 AU 200x ULES-00294 JP 2004-12-24 ¥4,800 (5,040)4,800 (5,040) NTR-P-APYJ NTR-APYJ-JPN US 2005-04-28 NTR-P-APYE NTR-APYE-USA BX 2006-07-21 NTR-P-APYP NTR-APYP-FAH DE 2006-07-31 NTR-P-APYP NTR-APYP-NOE FR 2006-10-06 NTR-P-APYP NTR-APYP-FRA IT 2006-07-21 NTR-P-APYP NTR-APYP-ITA UK 2006-07-21 £29.9929.99 NTR-P-APYP NTR-APYP-UKV
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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.

Story

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.

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.

The game was also brought to the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable handhelds. It was also released for Windows PCs and Macs, and Palm OS. The Xbox version would later be released on Xbox 360 as part of its Xbox Originals lineup, only in Japan. 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.

The game was followed by Puyo Puyo Fever 2.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as

Language	Localised Name	English Translation
English	Puyo Pop Fever	Puyo Pop Fever
Japanese	ぷよぷよフィーバー	Puyo Puyo Fever

Production credits

Dreamcast version

• Producer: Yuji Naka
• Director: Takashi Yuda
• Art Director: Yuji Uekawa
• Title Design: Miho Hyakutake
• Designer: Miho Hyakutake, Shio Hashimoto, Thomas Yuda
• Manager: Akinori Nishiyama, Masanobu Yamamoto
• Assistant Director: Ai Mashima
• Developed by: Digi-Mix Inc.
• Producer: Koso Tanaka
• Planner: Toshikazu Kanke
• Programmer: Satoru Kodaira, Yuichi Iwasaki, Takashi Kikuchi, Kenichi Hanasaki, Manabu Matsumoto, Takahiro Kawachi, Masafumi Uchida
• Designer: Mototaka Nakatsu, Mieko Kobayashi, Ken Nagasato, Hironobu Fumita, Saori Nanasaki
• Manager: Takashi Wachi
• Cooperation with: Aim At Entertainment, Milestone Inc., Tomotoshi Nakamori, Tadashi Ishimaru, Hiroshi Kimura, All Sonicteam Staff
• Character Design: Hideyuki Takenami
• Sound Created By: Wave Master
• Sound Producer: Tatsuya Kouzaki
• Sound Direction
• Music Compose & Sound Effect: Hideki Abe
• Voice Data Operation: Teruhiko Nakagawa
• Voice Actor: Shiho Kikuchi, Noriko Namiki, Mie Sonozaki, Naomi Wakabayashi, Makoto Yasumura, Tamaki Nakanishi, Takuo Kawamura, Evelyn Huynh, Irene Trapp, Brett Walter, Giovani Pico, Thessaly Lerner, Mark Atherley, Ali Johnston, Erin Cahill

Sega of Europe Ltd.

• President And Coo: Naoya Tsurumi
• Executive Vice President, Product Development: Jin Shimazaki
• Executive Vice President, Sales And Marketing: Mike Sherlock
• Senior Producer: Matt O Driscoll
• Technical Producer: Elliott Martin
• European Marketing Director: Gary Knight
• European Product Manager: Mat Ouaek

Localization

• Italian Translator: Giuseppe Rizzo
• French Translator: Brigitte Nadesan
• Spanish Translator: Marta Lois Gonzalez
• German Translator: Daniela Kaynert
• Quality Assurance Team: Darius Sadeghian, David Smith

Sega

• Executive Management: Hideki Okamura, Masanao Maeda, Hiroyuki Miyazaki
• Promotion Management: Mitsuru Takahashi, Naoko Ooka, Hideki Yokaichiya
• Public relations: Yasushi Nagumo, Youko Nagasawa
• Software Manual: Yoshihiko Sakuta, Hiroshi Ohsawa, Toshiki Yamaguchi
• Technical Support: Takashi Shoji, Akihiro Etori, Takashi Ando, Hideki Kudo, Kazuyoshi Hara, Shinichi Uchida, Atsushi Hirano
• Special Thanks: Junichi Shimizu, Akira Nishikawa, Akira Terasawa, Kenji Takano, Sunao Murayama, Chihiro Tanikawa, Masahiro Ozeki, Nobuyuki Inoue
• International Business & Product Development: Tatsuyuki Miyazaki, Yusuke Suai, Shinobu Shindo
• Executive Producer: Hisao Oguchi, DynaComware Corporation
• Created by: Sonic Team™

Original Game ©Sega

©Sonicteam / Sega. 2004

• Presented by: Sega®

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In-game credits (JP)

GameCube version

Sega of America

• President: Hide Irie
• Vice President of Entertainment Marketing: Scott Steinberg
• Senior Media Manager: Teri Higgins
• Product Marketing Manager: Yosuke Moriya
• Director of Product Development: Osamu Shibamiya
• Localization Producer: Jason Kuo
• Quality Assurance: Shawn Dobbins, Demetrius Griffin
• Build Engineer: Rick "Maverick" Ribble

Instruction Booklet Production Sega Logistics Services Co., Ltd.

• Supervisor: Yoshihiro Sakuta
• Assistant Supervisor: Hisakazu Nakagawa
• Designer: Satoru Ishigami
• Text Editor/Layouts: Colin Restall

Source:

US manual

Nintendo DS version

• Producer: Yuji Naka
• Director: Takashi Yuda
• Art Director: Miho Hyakutake
• Manager: Akinori Nishiyama, Masanobu Yamamoto, Yuji Uekawa
• Assistant Director: Ai Mashima
• English Translation: Shinobu Shindo, Kevin Frane
• Developed by: Milestone Inc.
  • Producer: Hiroshi Kimura
  • Planner: Toshikazu Kanke
  • Programmer: Masafumi Uchida, Manabu Matsumoto
  • Designer: Hironobu Fumita, Miki Narashima
  • Character Design: Hideyuki Takenami
• Sound Created by: Wave Master
  • Sound Producer: Tatsuya Kouzaki
  • Sound Direction, Music Compose & Sound Effect: Hideki Abe
  • Voice Data Operation: Teruhiko Nakagawa
  • Voice Actor: Shiho Kikuchi, Noriko Namiki, Mie Sonozaki, Naomi Wakabayashi, Makoto Yasumura, Tamaki Nakanishi, Takuo Kawamura
• Executive Management: Hideki Okamura, Masanao Maeda, Hiroyuki Miyazaki
• Promotion Management: Yasushi Yamashita, Hideki Yokaichiya, Mariko Takeda
• Public Relations: Yasushi Nagumo, Youko Nagasawa, Sachiko Ochi
• Software Manual: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Chieko Nakamura, Toshiki Yamaguchi
• Special Thanks: Junichi Shimizu, Akira Nishikawa, Akira Terasawa, Yutaka Kawasaki, Sunao Murayama, Yuji Nakamura, Yukihiro Taguchi, Nobuyuki Inoue
• Executive Producer: Hisao Oguchi
• DynaComware Corporation [sic; role unknown]
• Created by: Sonic Team

PlayStation Portable version

Ignition Entertainment

• Managing Director: Vijay Chadha
• Packaging, Manual and Layout: Kelly-ann Styles
• Product Manager: Peter Rollinson
• QA Manager: Manoj Kumar
• Operations, Localisation and Development Manager: Jim Philpot
• Marketing Director: Greg Baverstock
• European Sales: Phu Tien
• UK Sales: Carl Franks
• Information Technology: Danny Bailey
• Logistics: Joy Sreeraman
• Finace: Ismail Essack, Richard Cooke
• Localisation, Additional Layout and DTP Support: Partnertrans

Source:

EU manual

Downloadable content

Title and description	Links	Releases
Gamer Icon Pack (ゲーマー アイコン パック)	Xbox 360: JP	JP 2007-12-04 FREEfree
Theme (テーマ)	Xbox 360: JP	JP 2007-12-04 50MSP50

Digital manuals

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  Xbox 360 JP manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Puyo Pop Fever/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Windows PC JP press release

PDF

Nintendo DS/Pocket PC/Palm OS JP press release

PDF

Features and legals (Nintendo DS/PSP; AU)

Game Boy Advance UK print advert

File:PuyoPuyoFever PS2 JP TVAdvert.mp4

PlayStation 2 JP TV advert

File:PuyoPuyoFever PS2 JP TVAdvert.mp4

Artwork

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Physical scans

NAOMI version

NAOMI, JP

NAOMI GD-ROM, JP

Dreamcast version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Famitsu (JP) 75 №794

	75
Based on 1 review

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 75

	75
Based on 1 review

Puyo Pop Fever

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc Inlay

GameCube version

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 70 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 85 Hyper (AU) PAL 79 N Games (DE) PAL 75 NGC Magazine (UK) PAL 80 Nintendo Official Magazine (UK) PAL 38 Nintendo Power (US) NTSC-U 70 N-Zone (DE) PAL 80 Play (US) NTSC-U 67

	72
Based on 9 reviews

Puyo Pop Fever

GameCube, US
Cover
Disc Manual

GameCube, EU
Cover

GameCube, JP
Cover
Manual

GameCube, JP (Okaidoku-ban)
Cover
Disc Manual

Game Boy Advance version

Game Boy Advance, JP
Cover
Cart

Game Boy Advance, UK
Cover
Cart

Game Boy Advance, FR/NL
Cart

Game Boy Advance, DE
Cover
Cart

Game Boy Advance, ES/IT
Cart

OS X version

Mac, JP
Cover
Disc

Nintendo DS version

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 72 Game Station (UK) 80 NGC Magazine (UK) NTSC-J 50 NGC Magazine (UK) PAL 70 Nintendo Power (US) NTSC-U 60

	66
Based on 5 reviews

Puyo Pop Fever

Nintendo DS, JP
Cover
Card

Nintendo DS, US
Cover
Card

Nintendo DS, UK
Cover
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Nintendo DS, FR
Cover
Card

Nintendo DS, BX†
Cover
Card

Nintendo DS, DE
Cover
Card

Nintendo DS, IT
Cover
Card

Nintendo DS, AU
Card

PC version

PC, JP
Cover

PC, JP (Pad Doukon-ban)
Cover

PC, JP (Kakaku Kaiteihan)
Cover

PlayStation 2 version

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Edge (UK) PAL 70 Hyper (AU) PAL 79 PlayStation 2 Official Magazine - UK (UK) PAL 80 Play Games (DE) PAL 75 PlayZone (DE) PAL 75

	76
Based on 5 reviews

Puyo Pop Fever

PlayStation 2, JP
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, JP (PS2 the Best)
Cover
Disc

PlayStation 2, EU (Promo)
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PlayStation 2, EU
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PlayStation 2, DE
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PlayStation 2, AU
Cover

PlayStation Portable version

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Go>Play (UK) PAL 68 PlayStation 2 Official Magazine - UK (UK) PAL 70

	69
Based on 2 reviews

Puyo Pop Fever

PlayStation Portable, JP
Cover
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PlayStation Portable, UK
Cover
Disc Manual

PlayStation Portable, AU
Cover
Disc Manual

PlayStation Portable, FR
Cover

PlayStation Portable, DE
Cover

PlayStation Portable, ES/PT
Cover

PlayStation Portable, IT
Cover

Xbox version

Sega Retro Average
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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Das Offizielle Xbox-Magazin (DE) PAL 60 Hyper (AU) PAL 79 Official Xbox Magazine (UK) PAL 70

	70
Based on 3 reviews

Puyo Pop Fever

Xbox, JP
Cover

Xbox, EU
Cover
Disc

Xbox, AU
Cover
Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

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External links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese):
  • Arcade
  • Dreamcast
  • Game Boy Advance
  • GameCube
  • Macintosh
  • Nintendo DS
  • Palm
  • PlayStation 2
  • PlayStation Portable
  • Pocket PC
  • Windows PC
  • Xbox
• Official website on Sega.jp (Japanese)
• Puyo Pop Fever on am.sega.jp (Japanese)
• Puyo Pop Fever on PlayStation.com: PlayStation 2: JP, JP (PS2 the Best), UK; PlayStation Portable: JP
• Puyo Pop Fever on Xbox Marketplace: JP
• Nintendo catalogue pages: Game Boy Advance: JP; GameCube: JP; Nintendo DS: JP