Platinum Carpet V.I.P- Board Master

"Puyo Puyo Fever Dreamcast menu extras" , posted Mon 29 Mar 06:12

Finally got to try the latest Puyo Puyo game in its Dreamcast version. There are a couple of differences with the PS2 version, most notably the Puyos are 2D on it, so there's not more of the annoying effects when you made chains in the PS2 version, and they (the Puyos) are more detailed (thanks to not being polygonal). There's only English (full, even voices) and Japanese settings, while the PS2 had more language settings for the text.

Now this is the interesting part on the DC version:

-You can change the background image of the menu, with some images you can choose from (patterns with Puyos, kinda cute).

-You can enable a real 3D menu for your Dreamcast, where you can rotate the camera, and has a nice aurora effect when playing cd's. The bottom of the menu is like a water surface reflecting the elements on the menu. WAY cool. This takes around 26 blocks of your VMU, but it's a good extra and that's less than Ikaruga's VMU requirements.

The only real drawback, the Dreamcast takes a second to load the background image and you can't boot in 3D mode (you need to press start).

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