Puyo Puyo Wonderful World

Puyo Puyo Wonderful World (ぷよぷよ: 素晴らしい世界) or simply Puyo Puyo 2016 series is a Wide Open Sandbox, Japanese RPG, Driving, and Puzzle game as a Launch Title of the SEGA Super-Cross and Microsoft Windows in December 8 2016. Developed by Sonic Team and Compile Heart, the game is about Puyo Puyo protagonists Arle Nadja, Amitie, Ringo Andou, and newcomer Ally exploring Puyo Puyo Land beyond Primp Town, travelling into Cities and undiscovered lands, fighting against monstrous creatures, and join the Racing scene, all to become the Dominators of Puyo Puyo Land. The game sold 50.000.000+ Copies, and received Critically Positive receptions by Critics and the Player-base, saying things like "The Perfect Anime GTA", "Puyo Puyo For Glory", "Puyo Expand-DONG", etc.
= Gameplay =
Puyo Puyo Wonderful World is a Multi-Genre game.
== Core Puzzle Gameplay ==
The Core Puzzle Gameplay is a Mainstay in Puyo Puyo, a Competitive Puzzle game battle, where you drop Puyos, puzzle pieces made of jellies with eyes, create a Chain-Build, clear them, and send Garbage or Nuisance Puyos to your opponent(s). In Puyo Puyo Wonderful World, the Core Puzzle Gameplay has two rules: The Classic TSU rule, and the Fever rule, two flagship game rules that serve as mainstays.
== Open-World ==
The Open-World gameplay is New to a Sonic Team developed Puyo Puyo game. Now, Compile did have Puyo Puyo BOX, but that was a classic JRPG game. So for Puyo Puyo Wonderful World, it's the first game to have a 3D Wide-Open-Sandbox environment. This mode is where the player controls Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally to explore the globe. The Open-World game mode revolves around a Third Person view like modern The Legend of Zelda, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Dragon Quest games. Puyo Puyo Wonderful World uses a Freestyle battle system like GTA games without restricting the players to a turn based battle, and functions like a Musou styled Beat'em-Up battle system like Senran Kagura. The Open World game grants access to various cities and landscapes such as:
=== Prism Land ===
Prism Land is the main location of the game, an Asian continent, consisting of Transit Oriented Cities like Prism City (The National capital), 
==== Prism City ====
Prism City (Adapted for Gala Stories) is the Flagship Capital city in Prism Land, a Solarpunk People+Transit Oriented Megalopolis Utopia where Everyone lives healthily and happily. It is the Biggest City in the game resembling Tokyo (Japan) and Amsterdam (Netherlands), full of Office Skyscrapers, Mixed-Use Apartment buildings, Bike streets with Trees and flowers, Public transit network such as Trolleybuses, Grassy Tramways, and Metro Railways; People oriented plazas; etc. The flagship monument of Prism City is its Central Railway station serving the Famous Puyo Puyo Crystal-Express "Shinkansen" trains (Shaped like a Boeing 747) and the Metro trains' central terminus like Tokyo Station and Dhoby Ghaut. Aside from the Prism City Central Railway Station and Babylon Entertainment Resort, the various hot-spots in Prism City are:
===== Babylon Amusement Resort =====
Prism City's Luxurious and Extravagant Amusement Park and Hotel. This area has extravagant hotels and apartments, small businesses for the locals to make money from, and a Family Amusement Park with its iconic Synchronized Racing Roller Coaster called "Speedy Coasters: Red VS. Blue", Flat Rides like the Launched High-rise Triplet tower ride, the Tornado swinging ship ride, the Super Karts race course, the Drift Battle Bumper Cars game, the Super Ring Ferris Wheel ride, etc.
===== Palm Tree Promenade =====
A Seaside Beach, Mega Mall and Three Building Apartment where the girls can play mini-games on the Beach and the Arcade, or enter Online Multiplayer Puyo Puyo battles. The Three Skyscraper building resembles the Marina Bay Hotel, except it's an Apartment complex. The landmark is a Mixed-Use development, as the landmark's inhabitants work here. Fun fact, the Apartment floors have wide corridors that can be decorated with imitation plants, benches, and even Small businesses like small restaurants, Convenience Stores, and other stuff. Also, Palm Tree Promenade has a Safehouse apartment room for the girls to sleep in.
===== Swan Lake Orchard =====
The Biggest city park with the iconic Swan Lake, named after the famous ballet of the same name. Fruit trees, Flowers, and playgrounds are also present. The park is also served by the Prism City Metro trains and Light Rail trains.
===== Shining Stars Tower =====
The Tallest building in Prism City, an Office and Tourist complex akin to the Burj Khalifa tower. It's called the Shining Stars tower because of its Famous Medieval Style Panorama rooftop with a roof pointing upwards with the Puyo Puyo Land flag and a star on top of the flagpole. The Entrances are also decorated with Flagpoles. Shining Stars Tower also has a Built-In Train station for the Prism City Metro trains and Light Rail trains.
==== Starville ====
Starville is the second largest city in Prism Land, resembling Singapore (Singapore) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Starville's famous landmarks include:
==== Paragon Town ====
Paragon Town is the third largest city in Prism Land, resembling Seoul (South Korea) but with the landscapes of Switzerland. Streets are all narrow and roads for cars are on the outskirts. Meanwhile Paragon Town is famous for these landmarks:
===== Paragon Transit Hub =====
Paragon Town's Central Train Station (And Trolleybus + Tram terminal) that also has an apartment complex underneath and a Supermall across the famous Paragon Canal.
===== Paragon Canal =====
The canal that goes through the city and has a boat dock at Paragon Transit Hub and the Supermall next to it.
=== Ingrid ===
Ingrid is the second continent in the game, it's based on Europe but ironically doesn't share land with Prism Land. In Ingrid, there are also Five cities like Prism Land, known as Asgard City, Flora Valley, White Rock Town, Sunflower Meadows and Pinewood Town. 
=== Redlands ===
Redlands is the third and smallest continent in the game, based on Australia and parts of Africa.
=== United Federations ===
The United Federations is the fourth and final continent in the game, second largest only beaten by Prism Land. This location is based on the United States and China, specifically, the common IRL United States and Galaga IRL China, where the United Federation has fallen into the hands of Capitalism. It's shown where the Rich and Famous thrive and the poor had to struggle and commit crimes. Unlike Prism Land, Ingrid or Red Lands, The United Federation's environment is CAR centered, so in this continent, it's easy to spot giant highways, no dedicated bus network, no bike pathways, and while the United Federations DOES have trains, they are all described as Poor and Crap, as the trains are dirty, and are filled with only the poor and desperate to be passengers, unlike the trains back in Prism Land which are clean and elegant that even rich people in Prism Land use them.
Here is where the Fresh Town Families built their Criminal Empire. Because the United Federations is now a Crapsack World of Jerkass, morality doesn't exist. The Police are trigger happy into acts of Brutality and are prone to bribes. Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally are dead set to make their names known in the Criminal Underworld, and hey are holding nothing at all.
== Vehicles ==
Puyo Puyo Wonderful World also introduces the driving game genre, such as Racing games, and Train Simulator games. Let's start with the simplest of the Driving genre.
=== Racing ===
In Puyo Puyo Wonderful World, there are lots of sub-games to play. While the main games are both the standard Competitive Puzzle game and the Open World gameplay with the Beat'em Up sub-game, Racing is one of the new genre in the Puyo Puyo games, and this is even BEFORE the whole Mario Kart Crossroads and Sugar Rush Speedway 8: Infinite Celebration was a thing.
= In-Game Intro/Trailer =
It was a Beautiful morning in Primp Town, and in the Town Hall stood Arle, Amitie and Ringo. The visuals look 2D, and Arle, Amitie and Ringo flipped (Due to them being 2-D sprites.) towards each other. Arle pulls out a remote with a button, presses it, and then the visuals became 3D. Arle, Amitie and Ringo became 3D, start a leisure walk, and then start running, and then went to a Three way fight, which involves physical combat and them Magic combat.
A short montage of said fight builds up a crowd, egging on the girls to one-up each other, only for a challenger, Ally to interrupt. Arle, Amitie and Ringo halted, and seeing the new challenger, it becomes a 4-way battle. The montage continues on until the girls had enough, and decide to befriend Ally anyway, and then someone from the crowd screams about monsters, and the girls start attacking said monsters while the crowd evacuates to safety.
With all of the monsters in Primp Town killed, the crowd celebrates, and Arle points to a direction to a Big City, Prism City, where the girls will take on new challenges in their lives, and the camera ascends to the sky to reveal the Puyo Puyo Wonderful World logo. In the trailer, the scene fades to black, but as an In-Game Intro, it becomes the Title Screen.
= Story =
== Vanilla Story ==
The Vanilla Story is the base game's story mode. It starts off from where the intro left off last. Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally decided to explore more than Primp Town. However, before that, Ally challenges Arle, Amitie and Ringo in a Puyo battle of 3 vs. 1 (Arle, Amitie and Ringo vs. Ally), as a tutorial for the new game mode: Street Puyo, where Players pop puyos against random opponents to win money (In-Game currency is PTS for "Points"). In Street Puyo, there are two modes: Solo mode and Crew mode. First, it's the Solo mode (Where Arle/Amitie/Ringo (You get to choose) fight Ally and one another), and then Crew Mode. The highlight for Crew Mode is that you can have up to 4 characters for your crew to play one board. Each Character has different skills or known as Dirty Tricks. According to Ally, Dirty Tricks allow the girls to "Screw their opponents over", but if there happens to be a Crew opponent or two, they can screw you back.
In Prism City, The Underground Puyo Popping Scene is a very popular society trend, where Puyo Poppers around the city compete to become the #1 Puyo Pop Superstars, and Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally are joining in the scene so that they themselves can become Superstars. Ally came across two girls: Satomi "Speedbit" Tsukino and Reagan "Rafael" Tennessee. Ally wasn't keen on two girls trying to outshine her, so the three started off sour. Arle, Amitie and Ringo would in their battles encounter Speedbit and Rafael, even in regular City Street Puyo battles. However, in the outskirts like in suburbs, some "asshole" monsters start causing "Shit" against the people, so Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally engage in Physical violence battles to murder these vile "fucks". Aside from regular City-Street-Puyo battles, there are also Events, where crews compete to dominate said events, that can award you prizes and progression advances.
In the Last leg of the Vanilla Story is the Prism Land Championship, where Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally gang up in a 10-stage Crew Street-Puyo Championship against 9 crew opponents (Because the crews are randomly generated, there are NO specific crews aiming SPECIFICALLY AGAINST the Fresh Town Families because they are just like any other crews. But in order to participate, ALL previous events must be dominated. Once this Prism Land Championship is won, Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally officially dominated Prism Land's Underground Puyo Popping Scene.
== Expansion Europa Story ==
Expansion Europa Story is the first DLC for Puyo Puyo Wonderful World. In this story, set after the events of Vanilla Story's Prism Land Championship, Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally are invited into a Rally event in a new continent they've never gone into, the Continent of Ingrid, based on Europe's environment. In this expansion, Ingrid has no skyscrapers yet almost everyone commutes by walking, cycling, and public transit. However, Ingrid is under threat of an Evil entity who was sealed underneath. There are 6 towers sealing it, the first 5 being the Jewel Towers and the last one being the biggest tower: The Phantom Skyscraper, where the entity is sealed.
The girls' main task in Ingrid is to again, become the Number One in the Puyo Pooping and Street Racing scene, but also reactivate the 5 Jewel Towers' powers to reactivate the seal, but upon winning the Ingrid Championship, the Phantom Skyscraper suddenly went berserk, unleashing giant beasts from a wolf, a tiger, an alligator, a mammoth, and a Dragon. However, when the girls and the Fresh Town Families were busy slaughtering the beasts, the evil entity that lurks from the shadows is copying Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally's attributes, and the entity forms into a humanoid amalgamation of the four girls, naming herself Rafisol.
Her backstory is that she was once a leader of a massively powerful military from an alternate dimension who is hellbent on taking over the Puyo Puyo Universe but she and her army were fucked up by the United Federation, but what the United Federation did, was NOT for the better. With Rafisol free, she revives her Army to finish what she started, and get revenge on the United Federation. Arle, Amitie, Ringo, Ally and the Fresh Town Families, unaware of an even more sinister scenario in the future, just shrugged it off and decided to curb stomp Rafisol and her Army, just because to the girls, she's getting in THEIR WAY. And once they defeated Rafisol, who desperately rises back up and threatens that she'll be back, Ally just straight up pulls a gun and SHOT Rafisol in the face after saying "Fuck You" to her.
With Rafisol and her army Dead, the girls and the Fresh Town Families finally dominated Ingrid's Underground Puyo Popping and Street Racing Scene.
== Expansion Crime Stars ==
Expansion Crime Stars is the third and final DLC for the game. The Fresh Town Families have one more place to conquer, and that's none other than the United Federations, a country in the continent of Angeles.
= Trivia =
== In General ==
* If this game is set in Real Life and not an Alternate timeline, if you can describe this game in simple terms, it's basically Puyo Puyo Chronicles but on Steroids and the product was instead Bizarrely Massive SO massive that the game is PC exclusive due to Lots of Content catering to every gaming communities. You can say it's a rather Magical game to be... if it was real. But anyways, unlike Puyo Puyo Chronicles, Arle, Amitie and Ringo all share lead roles for some reason.
* The game was rated M for mature, due to being Darker and Edgier, Hotter and Sexier, Ruder and Cruder, and overall a Complex game.
= TV Tropes Descriptions =
== In General ==
=== Action Girl ===
Arle, Amitie and Ringo are always this, but sadly only in the Promo-Animations, which is why this game is the FIRST True taste of seeing the usually adorable girls starting to engage in Physical Violence, which in gaming, is always AWESOME.
=== Adaptational Changes ===
==== Adaptational Badass ====
In your generic Run-of-the-Mills Puyo Puyo games, Arle, Amitie and Ringo usually pop puyos and cast magic spells through 2D rotating sprite animations, and are generally cheery, but not in this game. Not only they have the Meats, Muscles and Bones through 3D, they've also gained Physical combat expertise (After the Tutorial at least) IN-GAME, and can LITERALLY Punch and Kick anyone they deem as "assholes".
==== Adaptational Jerkass ====
Ally Johnston, the Australian Adventurer is THIS. In the common Real Life, she is love crazed and that is BORING! So here, she is a Full blown Jerkass but still with a Heart of Gold. She likes and respects the good and Dislikes and Insults the bad. Also that necklace she's wearing? Just a boring old necklace she got after defeating.... someone.... In other words, Ally here can also be an Ambivalent.
The only "exception" is Amitie, due to her innocence. In fact, Amitie never swears, but she can be violent too, just like in the Puyo Puyo Fever Promo-Animation. In fact, Amitie's lack of swearing allows her to be vulgar in many different ways like in Animesque JRPG games like Hyperdimension Neptunia or Musou games like Senran Kagura.
==== Adaptational Villainy ====
For the 2021 Series or Puyo Puyo 30th Anniversary Update, the United Federation becomes an additional location. However, unlike in Sonic, In Puyo Puyo series, the United Federation is basically the many negative stereotypes of America portrayed in games like Grand Theft Auto, described as the Land of the Corrupt Capitalism and Greed. The country is overrun by Corrupt Corporate Billionaires. In the United Federation, Puyo Popping is an ILLEGAL Underground Scene. The President of the United Federation is the ONLY sane man because he's trying to get his country back to its former Nationalist and Socialist Glory.
In the Common Real Life, you might remember Puyo Puyo Quest, right? Well since Puyo Puyo Quest is NOT a thing, the so called Puyo Puyo Spacetime Detective Agency is instead a Notorious Underground Crew hiding in the United Federation. Atari is an Antagonist, and she and Ally are bitter enemies due to a.... history.... When Atari met Ally in the United Federation, Atari told Ally that the latter is "Still that one Vulgar Fuck i once met and still hate to this day." and Ally replied "Well you're still that Mentally Insane Bitch i used to Crack bones with!" meaning that Puyo Puyo Wonderful World is indeed Bizarre. Thankfully she and her crew, the Spatial Hawks, are just Prejudiced Anti-Villains, because their Jerkass behavior is stemmed from being forced to live in a Country full of Corrupt Pieces of Shits.
==== Call Back ====
The Swimsuit Arle, Draco, Witch and Harpy wear from Puyo Puyo SUN are present, albeit modified to have Armors.
=== Change of Tone/Tone Shift ===
==== Darker and Edgier ====
The game in general. The Cutesy Lighter and Softer appearance is present as per the norm in Puyo Puyo games, Arle, Amitie, Ringo and their friends are still the Adorable looking characters you wanna cuddle and give a Hug whenever they feel sad, but in this game, that is just a Façade, The Vanilla game's only Dark Elements are the Physical Combat game mechanics where the girls kill monsters, but the Updates and Expansion Packs/DLCs were Surely Darker, and provide stories not for the faint of heart.
==== Hotter and Sexier ====
Since the game allows Outfit customization like GTA, there are Outfits that make the girls more prettier like J-Pop Idol dresses, and even Hotter AND Sexier like wearing Bikini-Armors which apparently have High Stats and such. Hell, the addition of Pantyshots and Swimsuits cranks this level of Attractiveness up to Eleven, Add that with the Generic Cuteness and it's OVER 9000!
==== Ruder and Cruder ====
OH YES, Arle has the balls to keep saying "SHIT" Thousands of times, and Ringo's Mathematical puns were no longer present, for example "What the Factor" becomes LITERALLY "WHAT THE FUCK!". And as Ally puts it, in this game, ALMOST everyone IS an asshole. Ms. Accord is also vulgar, as she IS one of the Trio of Villains alongside Dragon Emperor Satan and Ecolo (The last of his kind, may i remind you!).
=== Car-Fu ===
Oh yeah, HELL Yeah, Badass Driver and Cool Cars, why not let the girls do Race Car Stunts while you're at it?! It's time to Cash in some Car Action, and This is an Irony from pretty and adorable girls playing a Jelly themed Puzzle Game.
=== Corrupt Corporate Executives ===
This trope is Deliberately Present in the 2021 Series Update. In case you didn't read, the United Federation from the Sonic Series, which has an Alternate Puyo Puyo canon in the Galaga Universe, is a Country where Morals have been Ruined and is run by Greedy Capitalist Billionaires, which in the Galaga Universe is a WARNING to corporations should they try focusing on Profits rather than Humanity happiness. Thankfully, since the Galaga Universe's United States of America has been put into the Rails of Recovery, pun intended, thanks to the Amtrak Shinkansen, practically everyone in the planet despises Greedy Corrupt Billionaires because Trains and Mixed-Use Developments help make Long-Term big money anyway.
=== Cool Cars ===
Oh yeah, PLENTY of them. Sure, they are Fictional because GTA Logic i guess, but are close enough to resemble Real Life Sports Cars. For example: 
* Superion GRX resembles Subaru Impreza WRX STI GDB-C
* Tamaki Ultra JZ resembles Toyota Supra MKIV
* Arashi Horizon GT-R resembles a Mixed-Hybrid of Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 and Nissan GT-R R35
* Murasaki Evil-8 resembles Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution CT9A models
* Katsura FD-1 resembles Mazda RX-7 FD3S
* Hoshi GRS resembles a Mixed-Hybrid of Honda NSX and Honda Accord Coupe
* Furai F5000 resembles Ferrari 599XX EVO
* Legend Maelstrom resembles Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV
* Saiko Densetsu Zero resembles Pagani Zonda R
* and SO ON!
=== Fanservice ===
What do you Expect? Cute BIG Girls wearing Sexy Swimsuits, Attractive Armor, being Panty-Fighters, Sheesh, It's just TOO Awesome for that, seriously, this game is Full of Fanservice alright, and NOT to mention references to other games for fans of said other games.
=== Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! ===
The lead girls Arle, Amitie, Ringo and Ally lead a gangster mob of Japanese-Esque Schoolgirls, and even got matching Turquoise School Uniforms to fit in the gangster mob, how cool is that?
=== Fauxrrari ===
Deliberate choice by SEGA, because this is Puyo Puyo, so they won't need Real Life Cars otherwise the Fantasy element will be gone.
=== Gangsterland ===
YES, you heard it, Beyond boring old Primp Town is an Aggressive Gangster Land, full of Street Puyo Poppers, popping puyos for money in the Underground scene, although
=== Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters ===
The lead girls' gang: Fresh Town Families are actually respected by the civilians, as this gangster mob is a heroic one. To Ally, the gang's leader (Older than the trio and graduated 1 year before PPF1 took place), the gang's motto is "Keep the Peace safe from Shit Holes."
=== Panty Fighter ===
The girls wear miniskirts and flash their panties whenever they fight, and they didn't even bat an eye. This IS an M-Rated Puyo Puyo game after all.
=== What do you mean it's NOT for Kids?! ===
This game has a GOOD Reason to be rated M for Mature: The Vanilla game or 1.0 doesn't have too much swearing, only sexy girls and attractive action without dialogue, but by the time Version 2.0 or 2018 Update comes up, the game's First DLC is on the horizon and it's a Story DLC, and guess what, the Story has Tons of Profanity in it! The ONLY Exceptions are most of the Fever Cast, as they never use dirty words because it's their nature to NOT be Foul Mouthed. For example, Amitie would constantly say "Oh dear!" instead of "OH SHIT!" which Arle, Ringo and Ally constantly use, or Raffina refers the big bad characters or major Antagonists as "Mean Bullies" instead of "Pieces of Shits" or "Motherfuckers".
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