Puyo Puyo 7.5

Puyo Puyo 7.5 (ぷよぷよ７．５, Puyo Puyo Sebun Pointo Faibu) is a puzzle game created by SEGA for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, PC, and iOS. It is the reimagined version of Puyo Puyo 7. It also features alternate costumes and a new character, Baby Arle.

Characters

In general, all of the characters of the Puyo Puyo 7 return as playable characters along with some of the Puyo Puyo Fever characters that were left out. Ms. Accord, Dapper Bones, and Lidelle return as playable characters, and Witch has become playable as well. Serilly and Harpy also appear in this game, although both only appear as cameos.

The returning characters make up 23 of the 24 characters. Baby Arle makes her debut in this game.

Baby Arle (ベビーアルル, Bebī Aruru)

Arle reborn as a baby. She is Amitie's adoptive younger sister. She is unlocked by clearing the Secret Act.

The 23 returning characters are:

• Amitie*
• Arle*
• Carbuncle (Unlocked by clearing Act 3 with all characters)
• Dapper Bones
• Dark Arle (Unlocked by clearing Acts 4 and 5 with all characters)
• Dark Prince*
• Draco Centauros (Unlocked by clearing Episode 4-1)
• Ecolo* (Unlocked by clearing the main story)
• Feli*
• Klug*
• Lemres
• Lidelle
• Maguro Sasaki* (Unlocked by clearing Act 1 with all characters)
• Ms. Accord
• Raffina*
• Ringo Ando*
• Risukuma* (Unlocked by clearing Act 2 with all characters)
• Rulue*
• Schezo*
• Sig*
• Skeleton T (Unlocked by clearing Episode 1-1)
• Suketoudara*
• Witch*

(*These characters are also playable in their alternate outfits in this game.)

Outfits

Unlike in Puyo Puyo 7, these characters are playable in different outfits.

• Amitie
  • School (Default) - The outfit that she wears in the original game.
  • Casual 1 - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo Fever.
  • Casual 2 - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.
• Arle
  • School (Default) - The outfit that she wears in the original game.
  • Casual 1 - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo Fever 2 and Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary.
  • Casual 2 - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Dark Prince
  • Blue (Default) - The outfit that he wears in the original game, as well as in Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo Tetris.
  • Red - The outfit that he wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Ecolo
  • Black (Default) - Ecolo's original look in the original game.
  • Purple - Ecolo's look in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Feli
  • School (Default) - The outfit that she wears in the original game, but her trademark shoes and socks are from Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary.
  • Casual - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Klug
  • School (Default) - The outfit that he wears in the original game.
  • Casual 1 - The outfit that he wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
  • Casual 2 - The outfit that he wears in Puyo Puyo Fever, Puyo Puyo Fever 2, Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary, and Puyo Puyo Tetris. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Maguro
  • School 1 (Default) - The outfit that he wears in the original game.
  • School 2 - The outfit that he wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
  • Casual - Maguro wears an outfit that is a mixture of his Chibi and Deka designs in the original game. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Raffina
  • School (Default) - The outfit that she wears in the original game.
  • Casual - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Ringo
  • School 1 (Default) - The outfit that she wears in the original game.
  • School 2 - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
  • Casual - Ringo wears the Dual Shift/normal EP Change variant of her On-stage Ringo outfit from Puyo Puyo!! Quest. (Fun fact: This outfit resembles both her Chibi and Deka forms.)
• Risukuma
  • School 1 (Default) - The outfit that he wears in the original game.
  • School 2 - The outfit that he wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
  • Casual - Risukuma wears a white T-shirt and a pair of long dark blue overalls. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Rulue
  • White (Default) - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.
  • Flash Attack - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo~n. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Schezo
  • Dark (Default) - The outfit that he wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.
  • Cool - The outfit that he wears in Puyo Puyo~n. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Sig
  • School (Default) - The outfit that he wears in the original game.
  • Casual 1 - The outfit that he wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
  • Casual 2 - The outfit that he wears in Puyo Puyo Fever 2, Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary, and Puyo Puyo Tetris. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Suketoudara
  • Bowtie (Default) - Suketoudara wears a red bowtie, just like in the original game.
  • No Bowtie - Suketoudara is in his birthday suit, just like in most other Puyo Puyo games. Not seen in Story Mode.
• Witch
  • School (Default) - The outfit that resembles Ringo's default school uniform, but with a red bow tie, an indigo skirt, and her boots from Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary.
  • Casual - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Puyo Puyo Tetris 2. Not seen in Story Mode.
  • Green - The outfit that she wears in Puyo Puyo~n. Not seen in Story Mode.

Gameplay

Like Puyo Puyo 7, only the five legacy game modes have been included: Transformation and Puyo Puyo, Puyo Puyo 2, Puyo Puyo Fever, and Mission Puyo. The older game modes have remained relatively unchanged.

Transformation

The main focus of the game. You either become a child or become an adult when you enter this mode. When you are a child, your field size increases to 10x18 and becomes similar to Fever mode, with the preset chains ranging from a 8 to 30 chain. When you become an adult, your field size decreases to 3x6 and becomes similar to Giant Puyo mode in Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary. You keep making chains until your timer runs out, and those chains are added together for a possibility of up to a 99 chain.

Story

The main story follows Ringo's mission to try and stop Puyo from flooding her world. Instead of the course system used in previous games, the story is divided into six linear acts, each act taking place in several different areas, and each act being divided into several episodes. Although some characters seem to join the party in a sort of Puyo Puyo~n fashion, the player is only allowed to use Ringo for the first playthrough. Completion of the game allows for the use of the other party members when one replays the episodes, leading to alternate scenarios.

Act 1

Ringo is on the roof of her school, when a bright light appears in the sky and Puyos begin flooding the school. She meets Arle, who explains to her the basics of playing Puyo Puyo. However, Arle suddenly begins to suffer from a mysterious headache and runs off. Ringo then decides to find a way to stop the Puyos from flooding her school.

Episode	Playable characters	Opponent	Rule
1-1	Ringo	Skeleton T	Puyo Puyo 2
1-2	Ringo	Sig	Transformation
1-3	Ringo, Sig	Skeleton T	Mission Puyo
1-4	Ringo, Sig	Raffina	Transformation
1-5	Ringo, Sig, Raffina	Feli	Transformation
1-6	Ringo, Sig, Raffina, Feli	Witch	Transformation

After beating Witch, Ringo gets told that Amitie is the key to stopping the flood of Puyos, and that she is in the shopping district.

Act 2

Ringo runs into Amitie, who apparently has amnesia. Beating Amitie in a match causes her to regain her memories, and they both set off to stop the mischief being caused by Skeleton T in the shopping district.

Episode	Playable characters	Opponent	Rule
2-1	Ringo	Amitie	Transformation
2-2	Ringo, Amitie	Skeleton T	Fever
2-3	Ringo, Amitie	Lemres	Transformation
2-4	Ringo, Amitie, Lemres	Dapper Bones	Transformation
2-5	Ringo, Amitie, Lemres, Dapper Bones	Skeleton T	Transformation
2-6	Ringo, Amitie, Lemres	Klug	Transformation

After his defeat, Klug divulges the method (which he heard from "Arle") to stopping the space warp that's dropping all the Puyo into Ringo's world.

Act 3

In order to stop the Puyos and return everyone to their own world, Ringo must have a Puyo match with seven people at each of the Seven Wonders of the World. The 7 Wonders in this game don't correspond to the ones in real life, since most of the real ones have been destroyed. Ringo and Amitie set off by train to Loch Ness, Egypt, the Himalayas, Easter Island, Area 51, the Bermuda Triangle, and Stonehenge to face 7 challengers. All of the challengers are Madou-Era characters.

Episode	Playable characters	Opponent	Rule
3-1	Ringo, Amitie	Draco Centauros	Transformation
3-2	Ringo, Amitie	Schezo Wegey	Transformation
3-3	Ringo, Amitie	Suketoudara	Transformation
3-4	Ringo, Amitie, Suketoudara	Rulue	Transformation
3-5	Ringo, Amitie, Suketoudara	Dark Prince	Transformation
3-6	Ringo, Amitie, Suketoudara	Carbuncle	Transformation
3-7	Ringo, Amitie, Suketoudara	Dark Arle	Puyo Puyo 2

In actuality, playing Puyo with seven people at the seven wonders does not stop the space warp, but instead massively widens it. Despite noticing that something was amiss with Arle, they are too late, and Ringo is warped to another world.

Act 4

Ringo has somehow found herself in Primp Town and meets Arle. She has managed to interrupt "his" control to tell Ringo where she landed, and that Amitie and the others are trapped within a space warp. She tells Ringo that she should go to the forest depths to stop her. After that, Arle gets seized once more, and leaves. The Dark Prince appears, who suggests Ringo to go take a shortcut through Primp School to get to the forest. Lidelle joins Ringo and the Dark Prince after facing them in a Puyo match. Maguro and Risukuma have somehow been warped to Primp as well, who also feel like someone else is trying to control them. After freeing Ringo's classmates, Ringo and the Dark Prince meet Ms. Accord and Popoi, who happen to be strolling along.

Episode	Playable characters	Opponent	Rule
4-1	Ringo, Dark Prince	Lidelle	Transformation
4-2	Ringo, Dark Prince, Lidelle	Maguro	Transformation
4-3	Ringo, Dark Prince, Lidelle, Maguro	Risukuma	Transformation
4-4	Ringo, Dark Prince, Maguro, Risukuma	Ms. Accord	Transformation

After saying goodbye to Lidelle, Ms. Accord, and Popoi, the Dark Prince hurries Ringo to go into the forest.

Act 5

Having arrived in the forest, Ringo and the Dark Prince find the possessed Arle. The one who is controlling Arle lies to the party that he would give Arle back if they defeat her. Despite their victory, Ringo and the Dark Prince fail to return Arle to normal (the one controlling her tells them that he is "not known for keeping promises"), and Ecolo transforms the girl's body he is possessing into his own (much to Ringo's horror and the Dark Prince's fury), finally revealing himself. Ecolo wants to seize Ringo next, and isolates her from the others by bringing her to a strange place known as "Black Space". Ecolo tells Ringo his true reasons on why he wants to bury her world in Puyos. Compared to other worlds he has seen, he calls Ringo's a "complete disaster". He wanted to flood it with Puyos, hoping it will make it a better place. But then he tells her that he was just kidding, and actually having done it all for personal amusement. Angered, Ringo battles Ecolo in order to stop him.

Episode	Playable characters	Opponent	Rule
5-1	Ringo, Dark Prince	Dark Arle	Transformation
5-2	Ringo	Ecolo	Transformation

After Ringo manages to resist Ecolo, he resorts to breaking down space itself, which would create more than enough energy to bury all worlds and universes in Puyos. The Act ends with Ringo screaming in panic, unable to stop Ecolo alone.

Act 6

Suddenly, the Amitie from the past and several others (some also from the past) unexpectedly appear in front of Ringo. Ringo, the past Amitie, and the past Arle team up and engage Ecolo in a final battle to save all universes and everything.

Episode	Playable characters	Opponent	Rule
6-Final	All Unite (Trio of Ringo, Amitie (Casual 1), and Arle (Casual 1))	Ecolo	Puyo Puyo 2

The trio wins the battle, and Ecolo explodes, destroying him for good (but unfortunately, it also costs the present Arle's life) and sending everyone back to their respective worlds and times, except for the now-vanished present Arle.

In the epilogue, the present Amitie (who has been just been brought back to her own world like everyone else after Ecolo's defeat) finds a crying baby girl on her house's front doorstep, then learns that the baby is the newly-reborn present Arle, and, breaking into tears, picks her up, takes her inside, and adopts her as her younger sister. Meanwhile, Ringo is seen back to her normal life in her own world, not only reminiscing about her experiences and how short-lived it was, but also grieving over the present Arle's death. Ringo hopes that she will be able to meet everyone she met during her adventure again.

Secret Act

This secret act will be unlocked after clearing the main story.

A year has passed, and Ringo somehow returns to Amitie's world, and plays some Puyo matches with Amitie, Lidelle, and Baby Arle (Amitie's adoptive baby sister).

Episode	Playable characters	Opponent	Rule
EX-1	Ringo (Casual)	Amitie (Casual 2)	Fever
EX-2	Ringo (Casual)	Baby Arle	Transformation
EX-3	Ringo (Casual)	Lidelle	Fever
EX-4	Ringo (Casual), Amitie (Casual 2), Baby Arle	Lidelle	Mission Puyo
EX-5	Ringo (Casual)	Baby Arle	Mission Puyo
EX-6	Ringo (Casual), Lidelle	Amitie (Casual 2)	Fever
EX-7	Ringo (Casual)	Amitie (Casual 2)	Transformation

After playing with Amitie and the others, Ringo says goodbye to them, and returns to her home world.

Cheats

While the cheats are the same throughout all versions, the buttons listed in this section correspond to the Nintendo DS version.

Many of these cheats also work in Puyo Puyo Tetris 2.

Unlock All

At the title screen, hold L + R and press Up, Down, Right, Left, Y, Y, X, X. A sound effect will play if the cheat is entered correctly.

Harder CPU in Battles (Core AI Cheat)

Hold L while selecting the CPU character (in Endless modes, hold select while selecting your character).

Use Dropsets in Endless Modes

Hold Select while selecting your character.

Set Player as CPU

Hold R while selecting the difficulty during the start of the match. The player's AI level will be set based on the highest AI level of other CPU players.

Set Player as Core AI CPU

Hold L and R while selecting the difficulty during the start of the match. The player's AI level will be set based on the Core AI level of other CPU players.

Instant Win

Press L + R + X + Y during a match.

Choose Random Mode

Press X while in a mode select menu.

Trivia

• The characters you play as during the final battle, called "All Unite" (全員集合, Zennin Shuugou, lit. "All-Member Assembly"), is actually a separate character. When playing as this character (via memory editing or action replay), there are a few interesting things:
  • All Unite doesn't transform. In fact, All Unite doesn't have a Transformation animation. All Unite use their Fever animation when entering Transformation.
  • All Unite uses a badly edited character picture depicting Ringo with a hand drawn 18 (which represents All Unite's character ID) on endless modes on the DS version.
  • All Unite uses the same character power as Amitie except for Mini Puyo Fever where they use a unique power that is lower than Amitie's. It's possible that Amitie's power was slightly bumped up by the final release.
  • All Unite uses Arle's dropset.
• There are 3 different versions of Carbuncle in this game, each of which looks slightly different: Carbuncle alone, Carbuncle with Arle, and "Dark" Carbuncle with Dark Arle.
  • It was later revealed that "Dark" Carbuncle was just Carbuncle enjoying acting evil with Arle, though it could have tried to save her from Ecolo's body possession instead. The reason for this is unknown.
• In this game, not just Ringo and Maguro, but Arle, as well as Fever-related characters (except Lemres) are also seen to wear school uniforms.
• Serilly and Harpy make a cameo in a cutscene in Episode 3-1 in Story Mode, when playing as Amitie. They also appear in the credit backgrounds among every other character.