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Puzzle Kingdoms challenges players to plan out strategic attacks in order to defeat their opponents. Order troops across the map, conquering cities through innovative puzzle gameplay. I found out what Leadership does. It increases the magic point you earn each time you match a block that your hero troop does not earn. Every hero has 1 leader ship point, so you always gain 1. If you have 2, you gain 2 points.
Puzzle Quest is a series of games from Infinite Interactive. At their base, they are with. In each game, battles are fought by matching up various gems and other symbols on a grid. Depending on what the player matches up, the gems will turn into one of various types of mana or energy to use for spells/attacks, damage to the enemy, or bonus experience or money. The player can expand their power through the use of various mini-games, which represent, learning new spells, or leveling up.The games in the series include:. Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords: The first and most popular game in the series, based on the award-winning Warlords series of games.There are four classes, each of which with different priorities for the different gem types. For example, the warrior focuses on dealing more damage with skulls while the mage uses mostly red mana.
Character stats more or less correlate with each of the gem types, increasing their effect when matched up.Except for your home city (which is already under your banner), all main cities on the map can be captured. This enables you to access a keep in that city, where you can train mounts, research spells,. You will also receive gold each time you visit a captured city.After a PC demo was released, the game was ported to the Nintendo DS and PSP and released in early 2007. It performed surprisingly well with players and critics and ended up being ported to pretty much every system, including an expansion for the Xbox 360 and iPhone versions. Puzzle Quest: Galactrix: a science fiction-themed follow-up, released in February 2009. Your character is a newly-minted recruit from a that trains and employs those gifted with psionic abilities.
While on a routine investigative mission, you and your mentor, Sable, stumble across a decimated research station and evidence of a galaxy-spanning threat. The game uses a hexagonal grid rather than an orthogonal one, and the direction that gems enter the field usually depends on the direction the selected piece moved. It suffered from similar supply shortages upon release. Way of the samurai 3 review. Puzzle Kingdoms was released in May 2009.
It takes place in a remixed version of Warlord's world of Etheria and adds troop and resource management to the mix. You play as the heir to your small kingdom's leadership. You take it upon yourself to find the source of the sudden famine that has stricken your land, only to stumble across a plot by the god of famine.
It features a puzzle style similar to Trozei. Puzzle Chronicles was released mid-April 2010 for many systems, featuring a desert theme and a gameplay style similar to Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo.
In it, you play as a member of a desert tribe looking to free his enslaved people and gain revenge on the slavers that captured them. Puzzle Quest 2 appears to be based on this game. Puzzle Quest 2 is a true sequel to the original. Styled more on, including a town hub and NPCs with exclamation points over their heads who give you quests, it was released on June 22, 2010 for DS, Windows, and the Xbox Live Arcade. This is a considerably simplified and easier version, though possibly with more balanced pvp. There is also a spinoff called that combines slightly altered mechanics with a storyline and characters based on the universe.
Note Though it appears Dark Reign is a PQ game - the game play and leveling system are direct lifts from. Infinite Interactive was a consultant on Dark Reign's design, though, and it was published by the same publisher that handles the other PQ games.
is a game from the same developers (with some outside assistance) that, while not officially part of the series, shares a lot of features with it. Puzzle Quest is another spinoff (also by the same developers) that blends the gameplay of Puzzle Quest and,.These games provide examples of.: Several starter spells and weapons which players will use throughout the game.: Level 50 (60 in the Switch remaster) in PQ, Galactrix, and PQ2; 20 in Kingdoms - though you have up to 12 Heroes to level up there.
The original Puzzle Quest allows you to increase your stats for gold, though, and those aren't capped, until the Switch remaster which gives a limit of your current level times two.: The series is very polarizing on the / scale. There's a strong belief in the fandom that the computer either predicts or outright changes the falling gems in its favor, but nothing short of looking at the underlying code will settle the arguments over whether that's actually true or just the players' selective memory.: An April Fool's website by the creator explained how to turn off AI cheating. Also, one of the achievements in Puzzle Quest 2 is 'Cheating AI: be defeated by an opponent on their first turn in any single player game mode'. Marvel Puzzle Quest has swerved unabashedly into this territory with the addition of. You get to choose one from amongst your tokens before the match begins, and any of the up-to-six characters who are actually fighting in the match are off-limits. The opponent suffers no such limitations.
The Magic the Gathering version has the Epic Challenges where the computer starts with supports on the board before your first turn.: Leaning too heavily on one type of mana/energy can leave you at the mercy of a more well rounded enemy, doubly so in Warlords if the enemy in question has resistance to your favored mana type.: Deathbringer in Warlords, Bola Mines in Galactrix.: Big-time.: There are quests, which involve doing puzzles.: Several gameplay elements do not impact the storyline at all. Turned up to ludicrous levels in Galactrix. In the original PQ, you can invade and take over entire cities as tyrannical overlord, and nobody bats an eye in the main plotline (or cares that you're the tyrant of their city when they send you on quests).: The Wizard class in Warlords; Ram, Catapult, and Trebuchet units in Kingdoms; and, most especially, the Sorcerer class in PQ2.: Via a mini-game. One of the series' biggest hooks, although it was left out of PQ2.: Enemies are automatically scaled to your level in the story modes of 'Warlords and Kingdoms.: The crafting and spell research systems. Even worse in Galactrix, with time limits and junk blocks.
To elaborate, it's game over when there are no moves left on the board. It is possible to prevent some dead ends by thinking a lot of steps ahead, but ultimately you'll still have to cross your fingers and hope the AI will be benevolent. For once.: You can learn enemy spells (or earn enemy equipment in Galactrix) via a mini-game.: All battles are one-on-one. When you encounter groups of foes, they're usually fought in sequence.
Averted in Kingdoms, where every unit with enough mana can attack in the same turn.: You get 4-5 points per level up. In Warlords, you can purchase more at your citadel.: The only real change in any game is in how Princess Serephine interacts with your character in Warlords. Otherwise, gender choice only affects whether characters refer to you as male or female. PQ2 adds in voice-overs in male or female voice.: Multiple spells/attacks destroy random gems on the board for various effects. Some other skills randomly transform gems into a certain color, skulls, or even wildcard spaces.
In Kingdom, units with Ranged attacks will attack a random enemy unit. /: Dugog in Warlords, the Soulless Dreadnaught in Galactrix.: the shields in Galactrix, at least as represented on the menus.: Pezt.: The minigame for opening the leapgates that are used to travel between star systems. They're all closed initially, they're everywhere on both main- and side-quest paths, they have a small chance of closing after a period of time, they have a time limit, and chains that normally help you can just eat up time when you're hacking them. Finally, you don't even get any experience or other rewards by hacking them, beyond opening up a new region.
Averted in the Steam/PC version. You get experience for hacking the leapgates, and you can also bypass them by using Psi points.: Beta Prime takes over the body of Kirine Thwaites. And doesn't give it back!. Or not. Nobody ever says it's a theft, after all.
And if you attempt to set Beta Prime free during the endgame, she instead chooses to stay with you, under the guise of Kirine Thwaites. Kirine was Beta Prime all along!.: The Soulless. Every other faction, you can win favor with the through trade. The Soulless, however, have no space ports in any of their systems. /: See.: Several, each with defining traits, while still being 'corporations'., the religious and political capital of humanity, is not led by a CEO, but by an Emperor. Trident, a weapons company structured more like a military, complete with generals.
The MRI, a faction dedicated to furthering Psionic potential in humans. And Cytech, who do robotics.
And not much else. Not surprisingly, Cytech is EASILY the of the 4.: Just a minor one, but a choice at the end affects one thing and determines whether you get a epilogue about or.: Apparently trying to save the galaxy justifies all manner of atrocities.
All manner being about two.: The Soulless. Really more of Scary Dogmatic Cyborgs.: ED24 is clearly inspired by Marvin from.: Less so than the first game, thanks to the minigames and changes.: Kirine and Lydia.: The protagonist is a paper-thin Conan imitation. In fact, the whole game is basically one long homage to Conan. Including the snake cult!.: The protagonist's spells in this game come from your warbeast (a nasty-looking dog).: The PSP version of the game had ten-second loading screens even when you opened up the menu to look at your equipment loadout!.: One of your enemies is a cult of evil snake-men.: Every fight is a ring out fight. Instead of hit points like in other Puzzle Quest games, destroying skulls pushes your side of the puzzle block towards the opponent, leaving them with less and less room to match gems with. If they run out of space, they lose.: The mobile version is free,.: No matter how many times you change or upgrade your weapons and armor, your avatar will look exactly the same throughout the entire game.: The AI will do whatever the help arrow shows, even if it doesn't help them.
It will also collect mana it can't use. And if your HP is low enough to be finished off by a weapon attack, sometimes it will use a spell.: Jarrum Blackstone is first introduced to the player as the priest of Verloren Chapel.
Later, he's found in the tower, where he's attempting to rescue the other missing villagers, and he joins your party for the last leg of the adventure.: The Assassin class is a mix of this. His/her primary ability is to use purple mana to go into 'stealth' mode, which is really just using your purple mana as a shield against damage. While in stealth, all of your '-Strike' abilities do double damage. (Strike abilities turn gems into purple gems on the screen as well as damage the opponent, so there's a lot of synergy between covering yourself and hurting the opponent.).: Chappi the dwarf, who has a store in Verloren. Advance far enough into the dungeon, and he sets up a satellite shop down there among the relics of his lost ancestors. He purchases any inventory items you don't want, sells equipment, and permits upgrades to your existing equipment. However, he does not sell the components needed to make those upgrades; those must be acquired by defeating enemies and looting chests.: Vampires.
They have stupidly high rates of shield criticals (cutting damage taken in half, no matter how much or how little), have the egregiously overpowered spell Blood Drain (does damage equal to your current Red Mana total, heals itself for an equal amount, AND knocks your Red Mana down to zero), and spam their special weapon, Vampire Fangs (which inflicts the stackable Poison effect.). That said, Blood Drain is pretty much all they've got. The Vampire Lords, on the other hand. They have Charm (destroys all Skulls and gains life equal to the number of Skulls destroyed), Bat Swarm (halves your defense and causes you to take 5 damage per turn for 3 turns), and Skull Feeder (a passive that gives them a random chance of regaining a stupidly large amount of health every time they match Skulls) in addition to the aforementioned Blood Drain and Vampire Fangs. Good luck, you'll need it.: Five of them (Kurak the polar bear, the Yeti, the Cave Ogre, the Arch Lich, and the Green Dragon). They're unlocked automatically as you level up, so you can tackle them at your leisure or not at all.: Beating the in the handheld and retail PC versions gives you a rather insignificant amount of gold and XP, considering the lengths you'll need to go to in order to defeat them. You don't even get the achievements of the, iOS, or versions.: Gess, in Verloren, who invites you to play hide and seek in the dungeon.: As a nod to everyone who made this complaint about previous games, the devs named one of the achievements 'Cheating AI!'
— earned by being defeated by an enemy on its first turn.: The game takes place in Etheria, just like Challenge of the Warlords, some time after the conclusion of that game's story.: Brek the orc shaman., as he's not actually a villain. Same with Raltheia, who isn't really a villain either.: What the Gorgon has done to Raltheia.: Verloren. In a subversion, however, it's not your hometown. It's the hometown of the Paladin shown in the opening, who ventured into the nearby abandoned tower many years ago in hopes of saving her people from the evils constantly assailing the community.
Said Paladin never returned, and now the player is going to try to help because things seem to be getting worse.: According to Chappi, he's the only Dark Dwarf remaining in the area, since the Dark Elves drove the others away when they took control of the tower. The tower used to be home to many Dark Dwarves, and they left many things when they fled.: The name of the achievement for being defeated by an enemy whose health has been whittled down to one point. Conversely, the name of the achievement for beating an enemy when your health is down to one point? Epic Win!.: Your in-game guides, The Mother, The Maiden, and The Crone, are revealed to all be a part of the.: In a few rooms in the dungeon, you'll come across a large green gelatinous cube. The Gelatinous Cube.: What your party eventually becomes once all four possible members have been recruited.
Unlike in Challenge of the Warlords, however, having the other four members along doesn't really provide any particular advantages beyond being able to add a few extra spells to your arsenal.: No matter how many times you start a new game, you begin by fighting a swarm of rats in Verloren, with your in-game guides introducing themselves and showing you how it's done.: Crye, the rat man merchant in Verloren. He's even found in. He also gives you various side quests, usually involving chasing down one of his errant children and recovering treasure at the same time.: Brek the orc shaman is simply trying to make the stay that way. Meanwhile, Raltheia is possessed by the daemon Gorgon.: The soldier Drayle joins you, briefly, once you rescue him in the dungeon. As soon as you get someplace remotely safe, however,.: As it turns out, Laurella. Her dad Jarrum is human, her mom Raltheia is an elf.: The Templar's 'Heaven's Wrath' spell, not learned until the level cap is reached.: Chappi is the last of the Dark Dwarves remaining in Verloren.
It's unclear as to where the others went or if they're still alive.: While dungeon crawling, a mini-map is found in the lower right corner. Clicking on it will bring up a map of the entire dungeon level.
Darkened rooms have yet to be entered; rooms with tiny images of a tower inside a blue circle are the locations of; and floating question marks and exclamation points indicate the locations of quest objectives and other significant encounters.: The Gorgon.: The Yeti. Thanks to its high Strength stat, one cascade can grant him enough red mana to cast.
Five normal gem matches will get him there as well. On the other hand, clearing red gems (whether that's done by you or the Yeti) will actually hurt it. But it will be healed anytime blue gems are cleared.
To make matters worse, it has a spell called 'Ice Breath' which changes 14 random gems to Blue Gems — frequently causing it to get several extra turns and fully heal itself. The battle can easily end up wearing on until the Crushing Kill. (Though it's just as prone to as anything else in the game, so just because it can use Crushing Kill, that doesn't mean it will.). The Arch-Lich is also stupidly annoying, thanks to its absurdly high Morale stat making it near-impossible to cast spells.
Putting every single skill point into your Intelligence stat is the only way you'll have a reasonable chance of using your spells (and by 'reasonable', we mean ' slightly higher than 0'), so if your play style relies on them, you're screwed eight ways to Sunday, no questions asked. Occasionally, depending on your stats, you're able to resist spells being cast by the enemies. If you can resist 'Crushing Kill' or 'Subjugation,' either of which is majorly a luck-based occasion, it unlocks one of the achievements.: Crye, the rat merchant, has a constantly-changing large number of children. Either they die frequently (which his side quests would in fact suggest) or he just can't keep track of how many there are.
Or he's a teller of. It's hard to say.: The main allure of playing an Assassin; this is the only class that has access to high-level poisons.: Templars, especially later when you gain access to Templar-only plate armor and the Tower Shield. You'll be able to outlast anything short of. (And you'll even be able to outlast the Green Dragon with the right setup.).: Drayle, one of the soldiers in Verloren.
/: Laurella's main interest in joining your party is to find her parents, who have disappeared. They're both in the dungeon, and both need rescuing. 'Le's not was'e m'tyme!' .: Supposedly. But say goodbye to weapons and armors with loads of different effects.
Now it's mostly about which one gives more attack.
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