I can imagine a statement like. We removed the puyo puyo characters because you don't know who these are and we don't want to pay international voice rights or do dubbing. Instead we've left you with...something worse than Adventures of Sonic cartoon characters. If they had just thrown Sonic Boom into this it could take the crown of best Sonic Boom game.
An amusing part of Kirby's Avalanche is you can taste the forced Western Edge in the dialog that is completely out of character:
The only game where Kirby talks.
Can someone please give me a rundown on why Puyo Puyo games don't come outside of Japan? I'd really love to play one to if there is one, or even a clone, readily available.
Why? People assume it is the characters and having a guy called Satan (localised as Dark Prince). I would think these days it is just the puzzle market in the west is terrible and it seems to be one of those cult followings in Japan still.
Typically one game a decade slips through. 90s. SNES and Mega Drive versions of Puyo Puyo 1 (why it couldn't be Puyo Puyo 2...) coming out as Kirby and Dr. Robotnik games. 2000s was better GBA Puyo Puyo game came out as did the N-gage (lol) Puyo Puyo game and Puyo Puyo Fever (with a mostly new cast) too.
If you want one now you either import Puyo Puyo Tetris on region free console (i.e. not Wii U and not really 3DS) or there is a Puyo Puyo game inside the 3DS Project Mirai Hatsume Miku game. I'll leave the thread with the simple fact that a Hatsume Miku game is only western release of Puyo Puyo this decade...