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Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is addictive as anything. It's also a very long quest, much longer than I expected from a puzzle game. If you like puzzle games, forging items, and RPGs, this game is basically that in one.

Diamond Mine + RPG = Crack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What can I say? PuzzleQuest is very addictive. It hits home nicely for someone like me who has been a long time lover of RPGs and (as I've gotten older) becoming more of a lover of casual gaming. There's definitely hours of entertainment in this one. A few graphical glitches here and there (maybe once every several hours of gameplay you might notice a refresh problem, where some graphics stay on the screen). The only thing that keeps this game becoming a 5 star game is that if you've played enough puzzles you begin to notice they all seem to start with the same configuration - I imagine there's a finite set of starting grids that depend on who you're battling against. It's most noticeable when you're trying to do things like level up your mount and fight the same opponent a couple times in a row.

Great twist to standard puzzle games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed the RPG aspect that was incorporated into what could have been a rather typical puzzle game. The battles are interesting and fun, because you aren't just trying to win. You're also trying to collect money and experience based on what you do within the puzzle itself. I will say that the battles can get tedious after you've been playing the game for a while, but that's broken up with the different types of puzzles offered for crafting runes, capturing enemies and researching spells. All in all, a very addictive game that's also great fun.

A great game, but slightly repetitive.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The DS has some very interesting, unique, original games being written for it, and Puzzle Quest is definitely one of them. It's part RPG, part puzzler. The story is not really all that interesting, and there's really only one type of puzzle, but there's something very different and fun about defeating monsters by playing them in a puzzle game. I only give it 4 stars because of the bland storyline and repetitive nature..but as you progress, and level up, you do get some interesting powers that make the puzzle playing more interesting. I definitely recommend it. Did I type the word "puzzle" enough in my review? Sorry about that.

Great game, low replayability in solo-play.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. It doesn't try to do too much, it's simply a clever treatment of a bejewled-like puzzle game (though PQ involves much more strategy than bejewled thanks to the vs. format). The game is well worth the cost just for the puzzle aspect and multiplayer mode.

That said, the quest mode is fun to play through once, though the final boss is underwhelming and the story is extremely simple, linear, and not dependant on character-class. The result is that if you want to build up a 2nd character (different classes offer different abilities in multi-player as well) you have to sit through the same railroad trip all over again.

Pulls you in at the start!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Simply said..I have to get another copy of this game because my boyfriend has stolen my copy. >_<

This game is extremely addictive and starts off fairly quickly. This game is a combination of a puzzle (Match 3 icons in a row) type game with a simple RPG game. Although it lacks story depth, the game is deep in other ways.

Basically, you go around a fantasy RPG generic world completing quests which may or may not be involved with the storyline. Along the way, you will, of course, encounter monsters. When you encounter a monster, the screen changes into a puzzle game and you "fight" by matching mana gems, along with gold coins and experience gems. You also gain spells which you can use with the mana you gain by matching the appropriate mana gems. For example, there is a spell called Forest Fire which causes a decent amount of damage to your foe. In order to "cast" that spell, you need 6 yellows and 6 reds. Usually you match gems by linking 3 or more in a row vertically or horizontally. So if you want to use Forest Fire, you would look for yellow and red gems to match so you can obtain enough mana to cast the spell against the monster. Once the monster's life goes down to 0, you win the battle and move on.

The integration of the RPG world, items, and spells are not the only things that makes this game incredible. You also can capture monsters and animals. Some animals you can make as your mount to go around the world faster. In addition, you can build your own Citadel with your gold coins. At the Citadel, you can upgrade your mount, capture enemies, forge new weapons, etc. You can also siege other citadels so they become yours. This game is really truly amazing because it has SO many features!

Also I love that most of the battles do not have a time limit, so if I have to close my DS and go do something else, I can easily pause it and resume it later. You can also exit a battle at any time by pressing the Start button and then exit the game completely by doing the same. It saves the game right away so you don't have to be in any particular "save spots".

There are just so many wonderful things about this game that I could go on and on about it but, alas, my fingers are tired. :P I highly recommend this game if you have free time on your hands...However, be warned that you may become addicted, lose your social life (if any), and gain some weight due to lack of activity!

Puzzle Quest, the good the bad, the annoying

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Indeed, Puzzle Quest is one of those games that takes your time, your attention, and your productivity and macerates them into a sticky goop of gaming goodness.
Yes, the game is crazy addictive fun that is fairly well scripted but absolutely preposterous. The main combat of the game takes place on a puzzle board directly ripped from the Bejewelled mold. To liven up the old formula, fun enemies with different names and abilities fight against you by taking their own turn after yours. You earn experience points and gold during battle that allow you to level up and purchase your own unique abilities and items that help in combat situations.
Like many RPGs where the formula is solid, the programmers lose sight of what makes a game truly great, and like many games that are in the highest echelons of RPGdom this game suffers from a distinct overload of monotany and lack of flow because you constantly need to level up and battle etc...
However, just like these upper echelon games it still holds a high place in my library and despite its flaws it's a really inventive game that is very addictive.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS GAME, just don't purchase it when you need to finish a term paper or anything like that.

A Solid DS Title You'll Keep Coming Back To

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game after I saw hearing how great it was on one of the podcasts I watch. The hosts seemed completely enamored with it, so I had high hopes. Even with high hopes, I really enjoy this game. I can see why it was given so much praise.

The game itself is a mix between Bejewled and an RPG, which works much better than it sounds. The story dialogue can be a bit dry and hammy at times, but you always have the option to skip right to the action.

Bottom line, this is the perfect game for the DS and it's one that you'll definitely hold onto for years.

Good concept with extremely annoying and frustrating execution

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love puzzle games and I love my rpgs. So when I first read about this game and all the raving reviews, I immediately went out and got a copy for myself.

The game started off pretty cool but then what came along was just frustration beyond words could describe it.

Ok, the mechanism and gameplay are basically throwing in a story to a Bejewelled type of puzzle game. So you match same colour marbles and blah together. Match 3 will make them disappear and 4 or 5 together give you an extra turn. Colour marbles are mana (so to fit in the fantasy rpg theme), skulls are attack, stars are experience and coins are em...coins. Since it is an rpg, of course you need to throw in a bit of level up - especially when you have stars as experience points on the grid. Through level up you can improve your abilities a la Baulder's Gate style and also learn new spells and attack. Sounds cool eh? It is indeed. The concepts are quite cool and full of flexibility. You can even learn your enemies' spells by capturing them and research them - all done through Bejewelled puzzles. You can even train your mounts and avoid attacks when they are levelled up. Mounts give you an upper hand in certain abilities and an extra spell / attack to execute on the battle field (usually you only have 6).

Everything looks quite unique a package but then the fun factor was completely destroyed by the cheating game design. The thing is the game was programmed in a way that it is almost certain that your enemies have the upper hand. Since once you destroyed certain grid with your matching, new stones or items will appear on the grid, 99.9999999% of the time the new items work to your enemies' advantage. There were so many occasions that you only have one move on the whole grid that's possible, but when you destroyed that part, the enemy suddenly has an advantageous grid that give them 10 moves in a row. There were occasions that I had a lot more HP left but suddenly because of that the enemies just annihilate you in a flash. It is so frustrating that you just want to drain your DS into the toilet.

Also as mentioned you can learn your enemies' spells by capturing them. So you did all that and learnt the spell. It turns out that you need to use a lot more mana points to cast those spells as compared to your enemies. So the enemies can cast deadly spell again and again but for you, once you did it once you have to wait for another century before you can do so again. And almost certainly that once you built up the reserve for spells, the enemies will suddenly use up all moves in the current grid and drain all your mana because there are no possible moves left. You will need a good reserve of explosive words in your language to deal with such frustration.

Further to train mounts you have to defeat enemies within turn time limits. However as they level up, the time became so short in each turn that you don't even have time to look at the grid itself and it is already the enemy's turn. So after certain levels, basically there is no more levelling up. And you are stuck with what you have. And sometimes the mount spell that you got requires so many mana points that it is basically useless and being there to just fill up the screen space.

Storywise it is really not much of story telling but the same old fantasy style with all the creatures you can think of in mythologies. Seriously I felt more refreshing with the small side story I unlocked in Zoo Keeper than the story Puzzle Quest tried to tell.

The problem is with all those frustrations you still wanted to play because you got so annoyed that you just want to try again and again to kill them.

If you are up for some frustrations and swearing with a good cause, definitely get this game and you can feel very fulfilled with yourself.

Very Addictive, Great Combo!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love puzzle games, and I love RPG's, so naturaly, I think this game is a great combo. Sometimes I will kick and scream at how lucky the computer will get, and shout with joy when I get lucky. Overall it is very fun and the quest mode is addicting. I think it would be even more fun if one of my friends picked it up for some multiplayer action... but I have yet to be so lucky.

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