Puzzle Quest Challenge Of The Warlords
Building upon the addictive and easy-to-learn gameplay of a puzzle game by integrating story and character progression elements found in RPGs, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords delivers a brand new type of game that pushes the puzzle genre to a previously unseen level. Create and build a persistent hero, from one of 4 unique classes; who gains skills, spells, weapons and more over the course of the game Customizable characters give players the ability to fight battles with unique strategies Build your empire as you capture cities, build castles and gain a party of companions that will aid you in battle
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Great game, preferable on other platforms
At its core, this is a fantastic game. It combines a unique twist on Bejeweled-style gem matching games with a fantasy RPG. All the battles that you face, as well as other challenges (creating items, training mounts, conquering cities) all are resolved by a puzzle duel.
We quickly found that the wii style pointing interface was too unreliable, and instead used the d-pad and nunchuck setup. It plays just fine with the alternate control scheme.
The AI feels like it cheats – it seems like it can see what gems will fall into the board before making its moves. However, overall the game is on the easy side, so I didn’t mind that much. You’ll lose the occasional battle, especially early on, but there’s not much of a penalty for that.
As others have pointed out, the game doesn’t look very good. The text is hard to read, and compared to the Xbox Live Arcade version, the screen layout is not very good. It’s not enough to ruin the game and make it unplayable, it just takes some of the shine off of an otherwise great game.
If you have another platform (DS, X-box Live, PC) I recommend getting the game for that other platform. If the Wii is all you’ve got, by all means jump in.
1 Star Spend your money elsewhere
This game was beyond disappointing. The music is ok, but mundane. The characters are good. However, the programmers rushed this game to production. The computer does cheat. I know other reviewers are mixed on this, but the computer makes matches by knowing what will fall next. Matches occur in areas where no match previously existed. And, falling skulls will damage you but you do not get equal opportunity to damage the computer’s character.
When improving your mount’s skill, the computer will flash a large print (take another turn), across the screen. The screen is blocked for several seconds, which, if your mount is above level 10, will obscure your screen long enough for your turn to end.
Somehow, fighting opponents, every move they make includes 4 “take another turn” and concludes with a zap against your character.
Overall, this game is aggravating, poorly designed, and rushed to the public.
Don not spend your dollars on this game. There are much more sophisticated games out there, especially one where the Force will be with you.
4 Stars Puzzle Quest
This game is a lot of fun to play. It’s an easy game to pick up on. My only issue with it is the graphics. The game is on the Wii, so I didn’t expect too much out of it, but there is a fair amount of reading in the game and the words are hard to make out. My TV is a 32″ High definition Flat screen and the words can be fuzzy, almost to the point of being unreadable.
5 Stars I love this game
I dont know why this game is getting such bad reviews, me and my husband LOVE it. The controls are not bad as others have said; you just have to be careful when you point the wii remote as it should be. As for the game cheating, LOL I think all games cheat some when I’m losing but what fun would a game be if you won every battle or finished the game in 3 hours. Then people would be screaming it was too easy and where would the challenge be. The only thing wrong with this game is it keeps me up too late doing ‘just one more quest’. Out of all our wii games, and yes we have lots, this is one of our favorites and the replay value is awesome. No two battles are the same, how many other games can say that.
4 Stars Thoroughly addictive, with minor flaws
My wife and I both find this game completely addictive. We play on a 42″ LCD that does a good job of up-converting (many TVs don’t), and while the graphics and text are definitely not hi-def they’re more than good enough. The storyline lets you take different tracks through, and consequences vary based on the decisions one makes – from the initial definition of the avatar on. The puzzles are challenging enough to make you think, easy enough – once you figure out the ‘rules’ – that you can do it as a relaxing mental exercise. But one with enough challenge to keep you involved.
There are sometimes problems with the control, where the system reads a minor twitch as a move, that can result in pretty bad consequences when the move you were trying to make goes wrong. But you know what? That’s part of the game. You do that once, and you remember for a long time to be very careful how you move. Besides, the only consequence is that you may lose a particular battle and have to play it again, it’s not like you were sent all the way back to the beginning of the game.
It is possible – in fact, probably even likely – to get access to a very difficult match when you don’t yet have the points to succeed. This makes you have to come back and try again after doing some less difficult matches to build up your points, and probably helps to stay involved with the game.
Sometimes playing feels repetitive, and we take a break for a little while. But when we come back to it it’s fresh again. My most advanced avatar is at level 42 right now – I recommend creating multiple different avatars so you can play it through in different ways.
It’s not for finger-twitchers, gore-lovers, or probably even most devotees of FPSs. But if you like puzzle-solving in an interesting mythical world you’ll probably enjoy this.
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