Puyo Puyo Sun

About Puyo Puyo Sun

Puyo Puyo Sun (1996) is Compile's third Puyo Puyo, set on a tropical beach where Satan has enlarged the Sun, adding Sun Puyo to the series' competitive falling-blob puzzles.

Puyo Puyo Sun in Depth

Satan, the Dark Prince of English versions, uses special magic to make the Sun bigger over a remote island, hoping to create a paradise where he can relax surrounded by girls in bikinis. On Easy, Draco Centauros takes the chance to find a tanning spot and ends up sunburnt, while Arle Nadja and Schezo take the lead on Normal and Hard. After the great success of Puyo Puyo 2, Compile took a slightly more retro approach so the game would feel closer to the original.

As before, Puyo fall in pairs from the top of the screen and can be moved left and right and rotated 90 degrees either way, and the game is lost if the third column from the left fills to the top. The offset (Sousai) and all-clear (Zenkeshi) rules from Puyo Puyo 2 remain, but every counter now drops special garbage in a preset pattern, random in the Game Boy version, and since the all-clear bonus is gone, clearing the screen drops Sun Puyo instead. The title is a pun: "san" means three in Japanese, it is the third game, it is set on a tropical beach and it introduces Sun Puyo.

Making Puyo Puyo Sun

Compile developed and published it as an arcade game in 1996, the third main Puyo Puyo. Home ports followed, including PC, with music slightly different from the arcade original.