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Puyo Puyo Da!

Puyo Puyo DA! is a Dance Dance Revolution based game for the Dreamcast with Puyo Puyo characters. This game is based off a Disc Station game previously featuring Ellena Stevens. In contrast to most Puyo Puyo…

16 December 1999

Puyo Puyo Da! is a music developed by Compile, released 16 December 1999 on Dreamcast and Arcade.

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What Puyo Puyo Da! is

Puyo Puyo Da! is a music game developed by Compile and released in 1999. It was published by Sega. It is available on Dreamcast and Arcade.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Arle Nadja and her friends take some time off from Puyo fighting and challenge players to dance with them. The game features several dance stages, similar to games such as Space Channel 5 and PaRappa the Rapper. It also introduces a new ELLENA system used to render the game as well as a new exclusive character featuring the same name (Ellena Stevens, the protagonist of the original Broadway Legend Ellena featuring Park Jin-young). One or two players can dance to a variety of J-pop tunes by using the controller buttons to copy their opponent's moves. Based on how well a player copies the moves, Nuisance Puyos are sent to their opponent. The player loses if their health bar drops to 0, or if…
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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. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Puyo Puyo series

Puyo Puyo Da! is the 55th of 102 entries we hold in the Puyo Puyo series. The next entry was Arle no Bouken: Mahou no Jewel in 2000.

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What it launched against

Puyo Puyo Da! launched on 16 December 1999, within three weeks of Quake III Arena, Shenmue, Planescape: Torment and Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

Released around the same time: Quake III Arena, Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

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When did Puyo Puyo Da! come out?
Puyo Puyo Da! was released on 16 December 1999 for Dreamcast and Arcade.

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