"Ahh, a classic gaming moment, beloved through the ages." – common quote when I'm playing Madou Monogatari 3, and I, the innocent and blameless Arle Nadja, send out Carbuncle in the heat of battle, only for it to instantly fall asleep like a traded Pokémon with not enough badges.
*springs to life like a marionette* Compile should have made a Madou Monogatari spinoff starring the zombie enemy called Bayoenhazard
I want Arle in Smash, but only if she uses Madou Monogatari's gimmick where, instead of a % number on the bottom of the screen, it's just her face getting gloomier.
*tweeting voice* We need to bring back the late-90s tiny guy that kicks your ass
Puyo Puyo's relationship to Madou Monogatari is like Super Smash Bros's relationship to Captain Falcon and the Ice Climbers
Instantly making Arle batankyuu by calling her Diacute sorcery "discount Channel+Fireball from Magic The Gathering"
Twinkle Star Sprites really managed to cram both Arles into the same story, plus the fake Arle for bad measure.
The Madou Monogatari series is like a vast electron cloud of spinoffs, prequels, spinoffs of spinoffs, remakes, remakes of spinoffs, joke games and esports games, with the infinitesimal nucleus of Madou Monogatari 2, the one truly pure original game, in the centre.
Getting into Puyo lore is easy; just play this one thing *links to a 42-game compilation disk that costs $250, the same price that Action 52 retailed for*
https://twitter.com/gosokkyu/status/1644290422842482688Madou Monogatari 1-2-3, the little-known sequel to Lotus 1-2-3,
"Batankyuu" (バタンキュー, fig. "out like a light"）in Madou Monogatari and Puyo Puyo is like if "pichuun" in Touhou was actually in the games instead of being a fan thing.
I can't freaking believe the rendition of the epic Madou Monogatari main theme "Try Out" used in Puyo Puyo cutscenes actually covers the full 2 minutes, even though all the cutscenes end after 4-8 seconds, and 94% of the song is completely inaccessible outside of the sound test.
*thinking with 100,000 watts of brain energy* Kumikumi in Puchi Carat is definitely a parody of Arle's famous pet, isn't it
Is there a Puyo game where you can cast Lipemco, because if so, I'm all in like floating stalks in tea
Ever think about how Puyo Puyo was about the wackiness of Madou Monogatari characters playing a versus puzzle game, and then, decades later when the former entirely subsumed the latter, Puyo Puyo Tetris is essentially the exact same thing
