Okay, so I have implied and outright stated at various points, here and elsewhere, my dislike of Party Mode. "But why?" You may ask. "Why do you hate Party Mode so much?" Well, I will tell you why.
- THE ITEMS
- The items can range from useless/unintentionally hindering (Oh, awesome, all of my Puyos are gonna become single-color and possibly disrupt my plans!), to unintentionally helping the opponent (Ha! I've turned my next few Tetris-using opponent's pieces into pentominos! Wait, uh-oh, they had an I-piece queued up), to overpowered (Score Vacuum).
- THE SCORE VACUUM IS SERIOUSLY A "BLUE SHELL"
- The Score Vacuum means that a victory can be stolen from you due to the win condition of "Whoever has the best score wins!"
- THE ITEMS GET IN THE WAY
- A falling item can get in the way of a spot you were planning to use for a chain. Kind of like Sun Puyo in Puyo Puyo Sun, actually
- THIS MODE IS AVAILABLE IN RANKED BY DEFAULT
- This means that, unless you change the settings (though this is easy to do), your Puzzle League ranking can be changed based on an item RNG-based luckfest.
- While all of the modes are RNG-based by the very nature of the genre, they are a matter of working with the hand that you are dealt and being flexible while still planning ahead, playing 9001-dimensional chess. Party Mode ruins that.
- THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY TWO PLACES WHERE FEVER DROPSETS ARE USED
- Like, why? I just...feel like this is a wasted opportunity. Granted, as I said last time, Party Mode may be a call-back to Slot Mode from 20th Anniversary, but...why?
So, yeah, Party Mode is terrible.
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