The unfortunate combination of being obscure and having very few localizations has lead to a number of misconceptions, so much so to that newcomers are forgiven for making these assumptions.
And that's just outside of the Older Than They Think entries listed further down the main YMMV page...
- The English arcade game being called an unlicensed bootleg, seemingly based on MAME's first English romset being extracted from a bootleg board, was the biggest case up until Sega officially ported the English version to the Nintendo Switch.
- Draco being a master of kung-fu is an educated guess, sure, but her martial arts discipline (if any) is never explicitly stated. That didn't stop several places from stating it as fact.
- The belief that True/Shin Madou Monogatari is undisputed canon or was going to be canon, but it's just Oda's interpretation of the Madou/Puyo Mythos.
- Ringo having the perception of being one of the few normal people within Puyo. Considering that the English localization tones down her quirkiness, this is an understandable assumption. To clarify, she is Only Sane by Comparison and has her own quirks, and several games mention she is somewhat eccentric.
- Puyo Puyo is more comedic than the comparatively serious Darker and Edgier Madou Monogatari, stemming from the nightmarish scenes and the infamous Schezo decapitation. In reality, Madou is just as, if not as irreverent like Puyo Puyo,
with SEGA's run surpassing the silliness. The darker scenes and nightmarish content are largely exclusive to the PC-9801 port of 123, which is not the original version (the MSX2 version is) and was only done for that specific port and nowhere else. The original MSX2 game, its other ports, and the rest of the series are far more lighthearted by comparison. - Test Body houses Schezo's soul is only speculation.
- The idea that Doppelganger Arle's lore is in the True Madou Chronology. However, Word of God clarified that it was an unused plotline for the Pocket port.
- Dark Sig is Sig, but evil. (unconfirmed)
- The idea that transformation mode represents the past and future versions of characters. For all we know, it does not, and it's just an excuse to show off the Awesome Art of other characters.
- Rulue and Lemres are old. Some presume the former is mddle aged, but in reality both are teenagers, with Rulue being 18 and Lemres being unconfirmed as to exact age but still going to high school)
- Fever dub Amitie is Truer to the Text and she was made less sassy in PuyoTet1, But outside of some weird localization choices, Amitie in Fever 1 is the sweethearted and silly girl we know her as.
- Witch's name is Witch. That's her title, and as of writing she doesn't have an actual name yet.
- Puyo Puyo 7 is often mistaken to be the last "mainline" Puyo Puyo game, since it's the last numbered entry. However, the mainline series never stopped. According to series producer Mizuki Hosoyamada, the reason why there isn't a Puyo Puyo 8 is that it already exists in the form of 20th Anniversary. They just simply stopped numbering the mainline games after 7.
- The artist behind the character designs in Puyo Puyo Fever is often mistaken to be Sonic the Hedgehog artist Yuji Uekawa, largely because of the similarly exaggerated proportions and the game being developed by Sonic Team. While Yuji Uekawa is the game's art director, the character designs are actually the work of Takenami Hideyuki, not Yuji Uekawa.
