History VideoGame / PuyoPuyoChronicle

* ArtShift: ''Puyo Puyo Chronicle'' shifts away from the 2D art style for [[VideoGame3DLeap 3D character models and environments]].

[[caption-width-right:300:25 years of [[SeriousBusiness Serious Busi...]] wait a second, this is [[VideoGame3DLeap quite a different look...]]]]

* ContinuityNod: You find Schezo in a treasure chest in an aqueduct, and he proclaims he was hiding in there to let himself dry after falling into the stream. This isn't the first time it's happened; he once fell into a river, and took shelter in a chest in ''BOX'' while his clothes drip dried in the background. Even Schezo himself is aware of this déjá vu.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After you break the stone in Bleuo and arrive in Retty, Ringo points out that this means a hypothesis Maguro had made earlier came true. Maguro explains that he thought "maybe we're dealing with some sort of progression mechanic"? and that since a lot of the video games he plays have a mechanic like that, that's how he figured breaking the stone would let them move on to the next village. While he explicitly uses the term "progression mechanic", he doesn't say much else to imply that he's aware that he's in a game himself.

* SpiritualSuccessor: On several levels.
** The game is effectively ''Puyo Puyo 25th Anniversary'', but is not named as such due to its graphics and RPG focus.
** Of all things, the ''Puyo Puyo 39!'' mini-game featured in ''[[VideoGame/HatsuneMikuProjectDiva Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX]]''. The game's models are in nearly the exact same style as that of the 3DS ''Hatsune Miku'' games.
** The RPG mode is a much more developed version of the Quest mode featured in ''Puyo Puyo Box'', which itself took inspiration from the "Roux" sub-series of ''Nazo Puyo'' games.
** Skill Battle mode takes obvious cues from [[VideoGame/PuyoPuyon Yon rules]], especially since ''Puyo Puyo~n'' is the only Creator/{{Compile}} game that doesn't have a ruleset based on it in the Anniversary games.

* ContinuityNod: ''Chronicle'' has one involving Schezo: You find him in a treasure chest in an aqueduct, and he proclaims he was hiding in there to let himself dry after falling into the stream. This isn't the first time it's happened; he once fell into a river, and took shelter in a chest in ''BOX'' while his clothes drip dried in the background. Even Schezo himself is aware of this déjá vu.

* StockSubtitle: This particular game appends the stock subtitle "Chronicle" to its title.

''Puyo Puyo Chronicle'' is a UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS-exclusive entry in the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series. It is, for all intents and purposes, the series' 25th anniversary game and appropriately draws upon the gameplay structure of ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo15thAnniversary'' and ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo20thAnniversary'' with numerous {{Arrange Mode}}s. ''Chronicle'' is also a full-on VideoGame3DLeap, rendering the characters as super-deformed models.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The villages you visit throughout the game are patterned after the Puyo colors; Grimp is a [[GreenHillZone grassland]] (green), Bleuo is [[SlippySlideyIceWorld veyr snowy]] (BlueMeansCold, after all), Retty is near a [[LethalLavaLand volcano]] (red), Yellome is a ShiftingSandLand (yellow), and Purplune is a nighttime town (purple).

* PortalBook: The plot of ''Chronicle'' is started when Arle and Carbuncle are sucked into a book and end up having to travel through its worlds alongside Ally and the rest of the gang.