Are you a Puyo Puyo Master?

I've been giving Puyo Pop (Puyo Puyo Tsu) a lot of time in my Neo Geo Pocket lately, and the more I play it the more I love it. I know the difficulty level is unreasonably hard, I can't believe they let the Puyos drop that fast since I never remembered it being that hard when it was on the SNES (haven't played the Wonderswan version, but they look like brothers and sisters judging from the screenshot), but being a Puyo Puyo Master is surprisingly satisfying. At reasonable speeds, setting up your chains is what it takes to topple your opponent, you begin to develop a sixth sense for the placement of Puyos just by looking at the next piece, and then everything falls into place.

I must gripe they didn't put a lot of work into coordinating the music with the SFX. When Puyos are in motion the music craps out. I don't know how many channels the NGPC has, but I've noticed that one sound effect is switched out for the other when the CPU can't keep up, but maybe being an early release has something to do with it. Voices still can't be reproduced in real time with music or sound effects, but at the very least sound effects can be reproduced in real time with music on all other releases other than Puyo Pop.

Fuck no, I'm no master. But I do love Puyo. It's all about the chains.

I've played the NGPC version briefly and it's a great game. Alas, I don't own it though... so I bought the next best thing: Puyo Pop for GBA. It's a great game. If you like the Puyo series I'd highly recommend picking it up. I don't think too many people are interested in it. I'm actualy surprised it saw a release here in the states. Bought mine new on sale for $20. Still, it gets "unreasonably hard," as you stated, later on in the game.

Yeah, I'm biding my moment to snag a GBA when it becomes $20.00 (Hey, it can happen, a few years from now) just so I can play Mina de Puyo Puyo, Metal Slug Survival Mission (yes!) and other cool puzzle games. I might even check out that Chu Chu Rocket though I'm not going to pay an arm and a leg for it since I have it on Dreamcast. And maybe King of Fighters EX2, I've heard great things about it from forum regulars.

Chu Chu Rocket is worth about 7$ complete

It might be worth $7.00 but I sure can't snag one at that value on eBay, at least not yet. And it still retails at least $15.00 I think.

I bought it new for 15$. I sold it for 7$, complete, but the box was completely crushed