Before I begin this review, let me say that I've never played a Puyo Pop game before this one.
Puyo Pop fever is an intense and quick-paced game. The aim of the game is to connect four puyos of the same color so they will go off of your screen. When you succeed in connecting four puyos, not only will they clear from your screen, but they'll send 'nuisance' puyos to attack your opponent.
However, the aim of the game isn't too just connect four puyos of the same color. It's to create combos. Setting up even a combo of three sets of four puyos can send some intense game-changing damage over to your opponent, and vice-versa. You want to be sure you send damage over to your opponent before they send damage over to you!
Another interesting twist to this game is that all nuisance puyo you send over to your opponent don't instantly go onto their playing field. Instead, they collect over your screen in a bar (it's hard to explain) giving the opponent a few turns to 'offset' your nuisance puyo. By creating their own combos, they are able to remove the nuisance puyo before it ever hits their side of the field. By offsetting, they go closer into going into a very powerful (almost too powerful) mode called fever mode. This gives them some quick chances to make huge chains.
The gameplay is fun, so I'm sure your wondering why it got a three. It got a three because the voices are really annoying. Sure, you can skip the horrible cut scenes, but even in game you hear the characters chants when they chain. The story makes very little sense, and is very childish. However, story mode can get very hard very quickly. I know I'm not the best at puyo pop, so maybe that's just me, but still. This game is too cute for many teens/adults, but too hard for younger children. If you can look past these flaws, the gameplay is great. Especially multiplayer.