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Nazo Puyo: Arle no Roux

Nazo Puyo Arle no Roux (なぞぷよ アルルのルー; also mistakenly referred to as transliterations Nazo Puyo: Aruru no ruuu and Nazo Puyo: Aruru no Ru) is a puzzle game developed by Compile for the Sega Game Gear and…

29 August 1994

Nazo Puyo: Arle no Roux is a puzzle developed by Compile, released 29 August 1994 on Nintendo 3DS and Sega Game Gear.

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What Nazo Puyo: Arle no Roux is

Nazo Puyo: Arle no Roux is a puzzle game developed by Compile and released in 1994. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Sega Game Gear.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Nazo Puyo, the primary gameplay mode, has the player solving preset puzzles. Unlike previous Nazo Puyo games, the player does not receive the puzzles in a linear fashion. Instead, the player is presented with a hub world where they take control of Arle Nadja and receive challenges from other characters. Each character has a number of puzzles that are unique to them, which are presented to the player in a random fashion. When enough of a character's puzzles have been cleared, the player is declared victorious. The core gameplay is similar to previous Nazo Puyo games: each puzzle consists of a preset board, a victory condition, and a set of Puyo that will be made available to the player. A…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Puyo Puyo series

Nazo Puyo: Arle no Roux is the 15th of 102 entries we hold in the Puyo Puyo series. The next entry was Puyo Puyo Tsuu in 1994.

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What it launched against

Nazo Puyo: Arle no Roux launched on 29 August 1994, within three weeks of EarthBound and The Need for Speed.

Released around the same time: EarthBound, The Need for Speed.

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When did Nazo Puyo: Arle no Roux come out?
Nazo Puyo: Arle no Roux was released on 29 August 1994 for Nintendo 3DS and Sega Game Gear.

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