not the craziest game ever really, but it has a lot of charm to it. Being a puzzle game from the N64/Dreamcast era, it has simplistic gameplay combined with a lot of simultaneously updated and slightly outdated visual flair, and honestly I kind of love it. The sprite art is kind of whatever to me, but I really like the hand drawn art, and the kind of hard to make out 3D backgrounds in the cutscenes always really appealed to me idk why, it just has a super cool look. I think the game did get a bit frustrating at points, especially with the new power up feature. I think it’s a cool addition to the series, I appreciate them spicing up the core gameplay for sure, but it also just means the CPUs can almost always unfuck themselves, making matches drag a lot more. Still though, I’d def go back to this one the soonest out of these earlier Puyo games. It’s the same great gameplay with a lot of extra charm in the presentation, and even if it gets a bit tedious at points, it’s still a really cool piece of Puyo Puyo history.