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Puzzle Quest Challenge of the Warlords

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Puzzle Quest Challenge of the Warlords

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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.

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Puzzle Quest Challenge of the Warlords

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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.