The gameplay is pretty darn simple, but mastering it is another thing entirely. Puzzle games sadly became non-important in the eyes of many as time went on, I suppose they're "less special" than yet another open world action game or shooter.
I think Puyo Puyo is loved because it's one of the very few Puzzle series that continues on living. It's great to have the Wii getting some fan translations as of late, between things like this, the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games and Brand Newman's work. If you played Puyo Puyo Tetris, the visual design of characters and such will be immediately familiar, the writing also feels along the lines too. It also has some cute little things, like being able to change how the Puyos look, so they resemble the ones from the 16-Bit games, for example. I've played it for a few hours and while I'm not that good at Puyo the translation is great, it looks well made, and the game is fun. It even has crossplay with Puyo Puyo 7 on the NDS, which also got translated time ago if I remember right. Puyo Puyo 7 also contains several rulesets based on the gameplay of older entries of Puyo Puyo besides the main mode, such as the original Puyo Puyo, Puyo Puyo 2, Puyo Pop Fever and also Mission Puyo, in which you have to do certain tasks (Pop X number of Puyos, do x number of Chains, pop two colors at the same time, etc), so it's quite complete and the Story Mode keeps alternating between modes. It also has the School Mode to teach you the basic mechanics and strategies. The game itself contains the usual Story Mode, Endless Modes, a local Versus Mode and Online Mode. Here's the link to the Riivolution version (can be found on the video's description):
It has been also patched to use with Wiimmfi, so the Online mode works.
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It's fully translated, and can you can either patch a backup ISO, or use Riivolution with your real disc.