Man I was disappointed by this one, it had a lot going for it. I like the characters a lot, the art style is great, and the Fever gameplay is genuinely very fun. But in terms of core Puyo content this is probably my least favorite of the series so far. For one the Gamecube may be the single worst console to have a Puyo Puyo game on, as much as I love using that controller it is total hell for Puyo. Whether you use the sensitive stick or the tiny ass d-pad you will constantly have your Puyo placements be completely fucked up, without it ever really feeling like your fault. Also it’s by a mile the most frustrating game of the series yet. The original ones got pretty difficult at times, but it still felt pretty fair. If you used a continue, it felt like it’d get a bit lighter to handle, and it was a great system. You have the option to use continues, but you can also avoid using them to get a more challenging and more rewarding experience. Here though, it doesn’t matter whether you use continues or not some of the CPUs are damn near impossible to beat. Even on the normal difficulty there were matches that felt like dumb luck whether I’d win them or not, and using continues doesn’t make them any easier. I genuinely think forcing someone to beat this game without using any continues could be a method of torture. Not to mention as cool as the Fever stuff is, but the CPUs manage to fuck that up too. I swear every time I’d get Fever mode, the CPU would just get it right after me and cancel out anything I’m doing, without fail. I don’t mind the challenge this game presents, but I feel like the difficulty in Puyo should have some trade off to it. You can make the game easier, but at the expense of a lower score. This game just gets infuriating and forces you to trudge through it whether you want to or not.