History VideoGame / PuyoPuyoTetris

** Arle is absent from Chapters 9 and 10.

* NotHelpingYourCase: In Chapter 2, Amitie tries to deny that Raffina would be involved in tricking Jay and Elle, claiming that she is not capable of mischief...only to backtrack and say she might if there was shiny jewelry involved.

** Ess yells at Amitie demanding to know why she interrupted her nap, then yells at Tee for failing to stop Amitie, something he had no control of.

* TheArtifact: Western fans might wonder why ''Puyo Puyo Tetris's'' story mode goes above 100% Completion. This is because the final three chapters were DownloadableContent in the initial versions of the game.

** In Chapter 7, the Dark Price tries to give Ecolo relationship advice. Unsurprisingly, Ecolo has none of it.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In Chapter 8, after Ringo finishes announcing the talent show, Tee questions his reason for being there. [[spoiler:This could also be viewed as Tee questioning why he is back in Suzuran since he and his crew left for their world in the previous chapter.]]

--> '''Amitie''': I’m so happy! You’re back to your usual MILDLY tolerable unpleasantness

* ThePowerOfLove: Arle uses Rulue’s love of the Dark Prince to free her from mind control in Chapter 4.

* HyprocriticalHumor:

%%The current plan is for Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 to receive its own page; please only add tropes related to the first game for now.

** After Ess threatens him in Chapter 5, the UnsoundEffect says that Lemres is "shaken but not stirred", a reference to how [[Franchise/JamesBond a certain spy]] prefers his martinis made.

* BlatantLies: In Chapter 4 of ''Tetris'', the gang find a clearly frightened Klug who informs them that he did not run away kicking and screaming from Feli because she scared him, but instead walked away at a brisk pace of his own accord. Not even [[TheDitz Amitie]] bought it.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Pretty much the entirety of ''Puyo Tetris''[='=] Adventure mode.

* CowerPower: Klug hides behind Amitie when a brainwashed Feli shows up in Chapter 4 of Tetris.

* EarlyBirdCameo: In ''Tetris'', everyone goes to a virtual training space where they fight people in their memories to build up Puyo and Tetris power. O happens to summon [[spoiler:Ex, who reveals that he's the cause behind the game's events]], but he doesn't appear in person until the next chapter.

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: In ''Puyo Tetris'', [[spoiler:Amitie to Raffina, Ringo to Feli, and Arle to Rulue. The first two are eventually cured after being defeated in a Puyo/Tetris Swap match, but Rulue has an interesting case where she comes to her senses simply from having Arle and Schezo chant Dark Prince's name. Of course, Rulue still gets mad at Arle and challenges her to a fight anyway.]]
* InstantExpert: Pretty much ''everyone'' in ''Puyo Tetris'' quickly learns the rules of the other game they're not used to playing. Taken UpToEleven with Lemres, who learns Tetris so quickly that he claims he can probably even beat the person who just taught it to him five seconds ago... and since you play as him in the next stage, he does.

* LightningBruiser: Tetris in ''Puyo Tetris''. Played competently and fast enough, a good Tetris player can hammer out T-spins and Tetrises faster than a Puyo player can build chains. As a result, they can constantly rain down garbage Puyo in thick layers, giving them little way for chain building, or in extreme combo rushing cases, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption "nearly unsalvageable"]] for the opponent.

** One of the powerups in ''Tetris'''s Party mode causes the opponent's field to be obscured just like the Searchlight mode in ''15th''.

* NotMeThisTime: Both Dark Prince and Ecolo are blamed for the events of ''Puyo Tetris''. [[spoiler:It's not them.]]

* ThePowerOfLove: Arle uses Rulue’s love of the Dark Prince to free her from mind control in Chapter 4 of ''Tetris''.

* SchizophrenicDifficulty: The way chapter bosses work in ''Puyo Tetris'' is that they tend to be [[EasyLevelsHardBosses significantly more difficult than anything that comes either before or after it.]] ''Especially'' Ecolo.
* ShaggyDogStory: A minor example occurs in Chapter 4 of ''Tetris''. Arle figures out how to free a mind controlled Rulue without having to battle her by chanting "Rulue loves the Dark Prince", and it winds up working...only for Rulue to challenge her to a battle because she’s pissed about Arle supposedly "trivializing" her love. Lampshaded by Arle.

* WeWantOurJerkBack: Two instances in ''Tetris'' involve characters being ''relieved'' when another one is being a jerk like usual. The first one is Tee when Ess was bawling that she was lost and alone; the second one involves Amitie when Raffina was freed from her mind-control.

* ArcSymbol: An X shape on a yellow background is prominent in ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', such as on the packaging of physical copies and the loading screens. [[spoiler:This is Ex's symbol. It's visible on his hair and is used in his strongest attack.]]

* BirdsOfAFeather: Twice in ''Puyo Puyo Tetris''. Carbuncle and O are both the TeamPet of their respective groups, and Risukuma and Ai are both science-loving animals.

* BookEnds: [[spoiler:''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' starts with the player battling Ringo as Tee. It ends with the player battling Tee as Ringo.]]

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: ''Puyo Puyo Tetris''[='=]s "Puyo-Tet Mix"[=/=]"Fusion" game mode, which is a mashup where ''Puyo Puyo'' and ''Tetris'' share a single board.
* BrickJoke: A more meta example appears in the English version of ''Puyo Puyo Tetris''. During one cutscene in Chapter 3, Amitie and Ess talk in a "lady-like" fashion in order to get materials for the Tetra's repairs. Amitie notes that the next time they talk like that, they should roll their Rs more. Amitie's alt voice in the game is the same "lady-like" voice, but now with her rolling her Rs for certain words.

* CosmeticAward: Reach a rating of 10000 in ''Puyo Puyo Tetris''[='=]s Puzzle League mode and you get a badge next to your name.

* DownloadableContent: ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' moves a vast majority of the most common unlockables to DLC (extra alternate voices and Puyo/Tetris skins, for example). Beginning with the Playstation 4 and Xbox One ports, the former DLC is included for free.

** The English version ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' also changes the game mode "Puyo-Tet Mix" to the simpler, yet aptly named "Fusion".
* DynamicDifficulty: Big Bang employs this by varying your Fever boards based on the number of boards you've cleared without getting a Miss. More clears give bigger, more complex Fevers that give bigger chains if done correctly, while getting a Miss gradually reduces the size of the Fever and makes it easier to clear, while reducing the maximum possible chain. Lucky Attack boards in ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' also start tossing out T-spin boards and even L-, J-, S-, and Z-spin boards if you clear enough within the time limit.

* FakeBalance: The Puyo vs Tetris match-up in ''Puyo Puyo Tetris''. In theory, the Puyo player is meant to play the role of a MightyGlacier, while the Tetris player is the FragileSpeedster. In practice, Puyo rule is similar to the SkillGateCharacter trope, dominating lower-level Tetris players but getting completely stuffed by high-level Tetris players. Ultimately, not even the power advantage holds up; certain Perfect Clear/T-Spin Tetris combos can single-handedly fill a Puyo field. This is '''after''' there was a balance patch that ''nerfed Tetris'' in the very first versions of the game, by the way.

* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: In Chapter 8 of ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', Ringo enlists her friends to help put on a talent show to help keep the Suzuran Shopping District open after a big mall opened nearby.

* IWillShowYouX: In ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', Tee tells Amitie to calm down after her first encounter with Ess turns out frustrating. Amitie shouts "I'll show you calm!" and challenges Tee to a battle.

* KissingInATree: In ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', Jay and Elle think Maguro and Ess are in love with each other and make fun of them for it by singing this song, only with them spelling "P-U-Y-O-I-N-G" instead of "K-I-S-S-I-N-G". Ess tells them "That's the stupidest song I've ever heard!"

* LovesMeNot: In ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', the Dark Prince gets upset over Arle and Carbuncle blaming him for the chaos happening, and he's seen at the beginning of one cutscene repeating to himself "I'll forgive them... I'll forgive them ''not''". Ringo sees him and comments on how he's "butchering those flower petals".

* MusicalNod: The Fever[=/=]Lucky Attack [[https://youtu.be/kAyUJ37kIyQ theme]] from ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' contains a brief snippet of [[https://youtu.be/JlYQOralFaM "Kalinka,"]] a traditional Russian folk song that was featured in the lesser-known Tengen version of ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}''.

** In ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', you can unlock tetromino skins that use the color palette from Sega's ''Tetris'' games.[[labelnote:Differences]]T's are cyan rather than purple, S's are purple rather than green, Z's are green rather than red, and I's are red rather than cyan. L, J, and O colors are the same.[[/labelnote]]
* {{Nerf}}: Tetris had to be nerfed repeatedly in various patches for ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' as the presence of FakeBalance became incredibly obvious at high skill levels, with Tetris players being able to absolutely trounce Puyo players due to inherent mechanical differences in how the games operate.

* RockPaperScissors: In ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', Schezo, Rulue, and the Dark Prince ([[spoiler:or rather memories of them]]) decide on which of them should fight Arle in a puyo match via rock-paper-scissors. Schezo wins, and Arle wonders how ''that'' was the way they managed it.

** The localization of ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' delivers this line in Adventure 2-7:

** The name of the spaceship in ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' is the Spaceship Tetra. At a first glance, it's a pun on the word "tetronimo", but [[VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun a spaceship going under the name "Tetra" has been done before]].

* SpaceIsNoisy: Lampshaded in ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', where Ess is so scared at the sight of Suketoudara the anthropomorphic fish that she, according to the UnsoundEffect, ends up "screaming loud enough to be heard in the vast vacuum of space".

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The website for ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' obscures the final character, Ex on the character page, but the wallpapers and Twitter icons both show Ex's appearance prominently, however, his name is not given anywhere on the site. The English website though borders on LateArrivalSpoiler, in that it actually gives him a full profile(!), but keeps the shadowed appearance, while the Japanese site just used question marks.
* UnsoundEffect: ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' is rife with these in its translation.

* WordSchmord: In ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', Ess is annoyed by Amitie upon first meeting her, calling her a "weirdo" and retorting with "Magic schmagic!" after Amitie mentions she's working to be a powerful magician.

* TheAllSeeingAI: The IA is completely unaffected by the Searchlight powerup that can be used on opponents in Party mode, which obscures the screen aside from a small beam of light.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The characters who were named "Raffine" and "Rider" in ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'' are known as "Raffina" and "Lidelle" here, the latter translations being closer to their names' Japanese katakana rendering.