History VideoGame / PuchiguruLoveLive

** There are two special puchi types that can be generated by Center Skills: Explosive (pops itself and every puchi in a certain radius) and Hi-Score (triples the points earned from that chain), and some puchis can generate massive amounts of these special puchi types. However, because of their effects, they do not fill the Skill Gauge, which prevents you from using them to execute a "loop".

* NecessaryDrawback: There are two special puchi types that can be generated by Center Skills: Explosive (pops itself and every puchi in a certain radius) and Hi-Score (triples the points earned from that chain), and some puchis can generate massive amounts of these special puchi types. However, because of their effects, they do not fill the Skill Gauge, which prevents you from using them to execute a "loop".

''Puchiguru! Love Live!'' is a Japanese "tap puzzle" mobile game released in 2018 as part of the ''Franchise/LoveLive'' franchise, developed by Pocket Laboratory (''{{VideoGame/Sinoalice}}). It is one of three major games in the ''Love Live!'' franchise, the others being ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' and ''Love Live! School idol paradise''.

''Puchiguru! Love Live!'' is a Japanese "tap puzzle" mobile game released in 2018 as part of the ''Franchise/LoveLive'' franchise, developed by Pokelabo. It is one of three major games in the ''Love Live!'' franchise, the others being ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' and ''Love Live! School idol paradise''.

** Clearing all 50 Missions in an Area in the [=MakiRinPana=] Pirates event and both Sanrio Characters events will unlock a "Hard" version of that Area with an extra 20 Missions, all of which are ridiculously challenging One Play Missions.

* ArbitraryMissionRestriction: The Missions that use CharacterSelectForcing. Also Score Attack Mode.

** Invoked with certain Missions and Score Attack Mode, which require you to bring a Center or a Team belonging to one or more specific Group, including Idol Group, Subunit, or Year.

** The SEGA Collab {{Crossover}} event also featured a limited campaign where you could spend up to five Hearts on one play and gain a multiplier to the EXP earned by each puchi based on the number of spent Hearts.

* GirlsLoveChocolate:
** The Chocolate Party event, which features Chika, Riko, and You in chocolate-themed outfits.
** One of the Special Skill Cards features Chika in a dress themed around chocolate-dipped mikans.

* BrutalBonusLevel: The October 5th 2018 update added EX Missions to Mission Mode, starting with HAPPY PARTY TRAIN and Sore wa Bokutachi no Kiseki. EX Missions are unlocked by earning 70 Stars in the normal version of that area, and are more in line with the Hard Mode events that consist entirely of difficult 1 Play Missions. While you can't earn any Stars from EX Mission Mode and you won't earn Area Complete rewards, the rewards granted by clearing EX Missions are much better than standard Missions.

* GuestFighter: My Melody, Cinnamoroll, Kero Kero Keroppi, Franchise/HelloKitty, Badtz-Maru, and Pompompurin from Sanrio's collection of mascots are playable puchiguru that can be collected as event characters. All of them are also wearing themed outfits from various songs; the former three wear Honoka's outfits, while the latter three wear Chika's outfits.

* SecretLevel: Secret Missions, which require fulfilling a hidden condition in an Area's normal Mission Mode stage. Secret Missions give huge Gold prizes for clearing them, but the vast majority of them are NintendoHard and are almost impossible to clear without the use of Tickets or creative team composition.

* NotCompletelyUseless: Random Clear-type Centers, useless as they may be for actual scoring, have other applications that make them beneficial in specific parts of the game. They are typically the cheapest type of Center Skill (except for the stronger versions that also spawn Bombs), making them very useful for clearing Missions that require activating Center Skills, and they are the only type of Center Skill that can directly target Event Items and do so at a fairly high rate, making them very helpful with Item format Events.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman:
** Random Clear Centers are particularly useful for Missions that require activating a Skill a certain number of times. The relative uselessness of Random Clear is offset by its low activation cost (around low 20s), which makes it very easy to charge and use.
** One popular Event format is racking up a certain quantity of event items by using Bombs or Center Skills to pop said item when it drops into the play field during gameplay. In events like these, it's usually more efficient to forgo strong puchi with powerful Centers for weaker puchi with destructive and Bomb-spawning Centers, like "Sore wa Bokutachi no Kiseki" Maki and "HAPPY PARTY TRAIN" Hanamaru.

** Puchiguru has also crossed over with ''Creator/{{Sanrio}}'', complete with an event where you can acquire puchis of My Melody, Keroppi and Cinnamoroll, along with a gacha set featuring the girls in special outfits partnered by various Sanrio characters.

** There is also a crossover with fellow ''Love Live!'' mobile game ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' where you can get ''SIF'' content in ''Puchiguru''.

* SecretLevel: Secret Missions, which require fulfilling a hidden condition in an Area's normal Mission Mode stage. Secret Missions give huge Gold prizes for clearing them, but the vast majority of them are NintendoHard and are almost impossible to clear without the use of Tickets.

** Following people allows you to send them an extra Heart once every 24 hours. The same applies vice versa.

** Clearing all 50 Missions in an Area in the [=MakiRinPana=] Pirates event will unlock a "Hard" version of that Area with an extra 20 Missions, all of which are ridiculously challenging One Play Missions.

** "Snow Halation" Honoka pops every puchi on the board that isn't linked. This enables massive chain setups due to removing useless junk and only leaving existing chains on the board.

* ArtShift: Just to signify their importance, Special Skills are accompanied by a full-screen animated artwork of the character, compared to the SuperDeformed character animations that normal puchi get.

* PaletteSwap: Hello Kitty's outfit is Chika's "Aozora JUMPING HEART" outfit with the big red stripe on the hat recolored blue and the bow's color changed from orange to red.

* PaletteSwap: Hello Kitty's outfit is Chika's "Aozora JUMPING HEART" outfit with the blue stripes recolored to red.

* TheVoiceless: My Melody, Cinnamoroll, and Kero Kero Keroppi have generic sound effects in place of voice clips.

* NoBulkDiscount: Averted in the School Idol Shop at least, since you get a bonus pull for shelling out 3000 Jewels at once.
* NoPlotNoProblem: Unlike its sister game ''School idol festival'', there's no story mode. The entire game runs on RuleOfCute.

* PlayEveryDay: There are Daily Missions where you can fulfill up to five set goals per day and earn up to 2500 Gold and 100 Medals by clearing them all. You can also get discounted Gacha pulls in both the normal Gacha and the School Idol Shop twice per day.

* LuckBasedMission: Upgrading Center Skills. Center Skills can only be upgraded if you draw a duplicate of a puchi from the gacha, which is, naturally, luck-based. Normal puchis require a whopping ''50'' extra copies to fully max their Centers, while Event puchis mercifully only require 9 extra to max.

** If you have it unlocked, you can activate a Special Skill by charging up the Special Skill Gauge, which summons either Honoka or Chika to execute an immensely powerful effect.

** Equipping a Card that matches the neso boosts the Card's score bonus.