Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary
Nintendo DS cover art
Developer(s)	Sonic Team
Publisher(s)	Sega
Director(s)	Takumi Yoshinaga
Producer(s)	Mizuki Hosoyamada
Designer(s)	Utako Yoshino Takeshi Yamazaki
Artist(s)	Akira Mikame
Composer(s)	Hideki Abe
Series	Puyo Puyo
Platform(s)	Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, PlayStation Portable
Release	Nintendo DS JP: July 14, 2011 Nintendo 3DS, Wii, PlayStation Portable JP: December 15, 2011 [1]
Genre(s)	Puzzle game
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer, online multiplayer

Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary is a puzzle game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. The game honored the twentieth year of the Puyo Puyo series, and was first released for the Nintendo DS in July 2011, and later for Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and PlayStation Portable in December.

Gameplay

In total, the game has 20 modes of gameplay, including 8 new modes, and 5 hidden modes from Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary.^[2] Except in Mission and Pair Puyo modes, a player is eliminated when they top out, and the last player (or side) standing wins the round.

"Pair Puyo"

A two-on-two team play mode. The teammates share Nuisance Puyo and "lives" - when one of the teams' field tops out, the board is replaced with a new board with a pre-made chain and costs a life. When all lives are lost, the team is eliminated, and the last team standing wins the match.

The players get bonuses for "Extra Chains" (firing a chain during your teammate's chain) and "Synchro Chains" (firing chains of the same length (3 or longer) at the same time).

Shop

Like Puyo Puyo Fever 2 there is a shop, but instead of ineffective game play items the players can spend points they get from various modes for exchange of Puyo skins, alternate character voices, and alternate character costumes.