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16 April 2007

Follow-up to this thread about Nintendo DS game recommendations. →[More:]the great big mulp, the game you are looking for, believe it or not, is Puzzle Quest. It is the bastard child of Diablo and Bejeweled, with a couple of additional minor game mechanics lifted from Defender of the Crown and Heroes of Might and Magic, and it is life-ruiningly addictive. I probably spent three hours with it yesterday.

Stat tweaking after leveling up, forging new items with runes, researching spells, besieging cities, loads and loads of sidequests, multiple narrative paths depending on player choices, etc., etc. It's all there. The estimate I read of 100 hours to beat it does not seem implausible.

post by: Prospero at: 07:51 | 4 comments

There's a PC demo. I'm waiting until I finish FFIII to actually buy the game, otherwise I will get nothing done ever.
The AI, at least in the demo, is ridiculously stacked against you. I'll be "hmm, nothing good on the board, guess I'll match these dinky stars" and then the enemy gets SKULLS SKULLS COMBO COMBO EXTRA TURN SKULLS YOU LOSE
x_X

posted by casarkos 16 April | 08:13

And, after it comes out in a couple weeks, you want Touch the Dead. Just in case the name alone doesn't persuade you, it's like House of the Dead/Typing of the Dead, except with the stylus!

posted by box 16 April | 08:25

casarkos: I'm convinced that the enemy AI isn't cheap (I don't think it's aware of what new tiles are going to fall into the grid before they fall, e.g.), so much as absolutely ruthless and better able to predict the effects of its moves than my puny human mind.

Stunning enemies just before a 4-in-a-row (to get three turns in a row) and hitting enemies with status effects whenever possible helps to mitigate that, but I've still had to fight some garden-variety enemies five or six times in order to beat them. I've yet to come across an actual "boss"--I assume the game has bosses.

box: Oh my God. I hadn't heard of that, but it sounds awesome.

posted by Prospero 16 April | 08:36

Hmmmm. I am intrigued by this "Puzzle Quest" of which you so fondly speak.

posted by the great big mulp 17 April | 13:49

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