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Quick Look: Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns

Watch Dan fight against a big ogre, a big rat, and the correct pronunciation of the word "mana".

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Sep. 22 2019

Cast: Vinny, Dan, Abby

Posted by: Abby

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Yes! Very interested in this but never played them before. I have played the Free to Play one on he Switch which is very similar but that has more oomph. The free to play hurts it though.

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Loved this game although the AI was brutal quite early on.

Also Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure was amazing

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This feels like a psp game

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Vinny is talking about Henry Hatsworth. A hugely overlooked game.

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loved this game, paladin though might be the most boring class...

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This feels like a psp game

Because it is. Dan kept mentioning XBLA, but this was originally a DS and PSP game.

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Puzzle Quest 1 is a GOAT. I poured dozens of hours into the XBLA and iOS versions and can't wait to pour dozens more into the Switch version. The series always felt like a one hit wonder, though...PQ2 was immensely disappointing and none of the Free to Play spawn ever held my attention for more than a day.

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The thing I remember about this game is that it always felt like the AI could see what was coming further up the board.

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Now I want to play Puzzle Hunter.

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Loved this on XBL, tempted to pick it up on the Switch, but between WoW Classic, BL3, and Link's Awakening, I don't have enough time to justify the purchase lol

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@banefirelord: Yeah it's such a shame that nothing they've done since remotely been fun for me.

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@eojay said:

@prsolutions said:

This feels like a psp game

Because it is. Dan kept mentioning XBLA, but this was originally a DS and PSP game.

It was frustrating, but luckily we don't come to Giant Bomb for well-informed coverage.

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The return of my favorite psp game on my modern psp.

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i thought Vinny was thinking about 10.000.000 & You Must Build a Boat.

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Mawna

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I think I prefer Gems of War as the successor to this series from the original team. It's better balanced and more fair than the first Puzzle Quest.

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Gems of War is a great game. It does have microtransactions but I've never bought it. You can play as much as you want, no energy system.

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Hyped for Puzzle & Dragons Gold on Switch, it's supposed to have PvP which was previously only in Japanese arcades.

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Looking forward to this game. Hyped on this game.

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I can’t believe they fucked up all future Puzzle Quest games so bad. Puzzle Quest Galactrix could’ve been good with it’s weird hex grid, but I remember I found the overworld map needlessly large and confusing and unclear where to go next which killed my interest in playing it. And Puzzle Quest 2 is just straight up kinda bad. It’s more simplistic than the first game and has worse art, and basically no story because they pretty much turned it into a Diablo 1 loot dungeon crawl.

So by all means, if you’ve never played Puzzle Quest but you like Match-3 and RPG mechanics, play this rerelease, because this is the best one this company ever made.

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Puzzle Quest got me to get a DS. Circa 2007 I was working at Sakuracon in Seattle, and everyone was doing pick-up matches of Puzzle Quest all over the con floor. So glad I got into that; I did a couple other cons that year (including PAX) and played so, so much Puzzle Quest.

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@eccentrix: You are correct, it cheats its virtual ass off. Five minutes into this video I remembered exactly why I stopped playing forever back in the day. Thanks for saving me the heartache I'd have had from this purchase, giantbomb!

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I hated the xbla version because the cpu cheated a lot. I found it impossible at times.

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I had this on DS and thought the battles were too long