Beverage company releases a Puyo Puyo-like that teaches players about fiber in vegetables

Otsuka Pharmaceutical has released a game to their official website based on their carbonated Fibe Mini beverage called Puyo Fibe Mini Fiber de Fever! Shokumotsuseni wo Get seyo! (below: Puyo Fibe Mini). The browser-based game is free for anyone to play and was made using Puyo Puyo Programming, a resource for learning how to program that makes use of the source code from Sega’s Puyo Puyo puzzle game series.

Puyo Fibe Mini is a falling block, tile-matching puzzle game based on Puyo Puyo. Instead of Puyo, various vegetables fall down the screen in sets of two. Players move and rotate the falling vegetables to create matches of 4 or more which removes them from the playfield. Matching more than 4 vegetables, creating chains, and getting rid of the occasional Fibe Mini bottles that fall down are linked to reaching a high score.

What’s unique about the game is that the set score players receive for clearing each vegetable is based on how much fiber that vegetable actually contains. In other words, vegetables with more fiber are worth more points. Examples include carrots and pumpkins which are worth 2.8 points, cabbage which is worth 1.8 points, and jute mallow which is worth 5.9 points.

These point values are based on how much fiber is in 100 grams of the edible parts of the actual vegetable. If you keep these point values in mind while shooting for a high score, you’ll come away knowing how much fiber each of these vegetables contains.

The game provides three difficulty levels: Easy, Hard, and Hell. The higher the difficulty level, the faster vegetables will fall at the start of the game (The game also speeds up as your score increases).

The vegetables that appear differ as well. Easy contains a selection of 5 different multicolored vegetables, while Hard bumps that number up to 8. Hell also has 8 vegetable types but they are switched up to only contain green vegetables such as cabbage, cucumbers, and immature soy beans. This means players will have to quickly distinguish between them while they fall at high speeds.

When the vegetables stack up to the top of the playfield, the game ends and you are presented with a rank based on your score. The game’s main characters Takashi (voiced by Shunichi Toki) and Yuki (voiced by Miku Ito) also give different voice lines based on your rank. Furthermore, high scores can be shared on Twitter.

Puyo Fibe Mini is now playable for free on Otsuka Pharmaceutical’s official website. The website is in Japanese, but you can still enjoy this quirky vegetable-themed Puyo Puyo-like even if you can’t read all the information about fiber intake that’s also listed.

Written by. Nick Mosier based on the original Japanese article (original article’s publication date: 2022-11-02 13:58 JST)