{"id":19449,"date":"2019-10-02T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19449"},"modified":"2019-09-22T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T13:31:50","slug":"puzzle-quest-the-legend-returns-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/02\/puzzle-quest-the-legend-returns-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Before Candy Crush clones flooded the mobile market, one of the big match three giants was Puzzle Quest.\u00a0 It played like Bejeweled but with RPG elements added.\u00a0 It was a huge hit, and has had many versions, including one that featured Adventure Time characters from the cartoon that I reviewed a few years ago<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 And now Puzzle Quest returns with new classes and quests, and is exclusively on the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n

The main single player mode is Story and you\u2019ll first select your class, including new ones like Paladin and Monk.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have certain attacks depending on your class, and some classes are easier to use than others.\u00a0 Then you\u2019ll embark on a story driven adventure and travel across a map and gather quests along the way.\u00a0 The game includes all the quests from the original game and expansions, as well as 100 new quests, too!\u00a0 These quests usually involve you battling something, and that\u2019s where the meat of the gameplay lies.<\/p>\n

Battles take form of a match three puzzle game, and you and your opponent take turns moving pieces on the same board.\u00a0 Certain blocks will fill up elemental meters when matched, and when you have enough, you can unleash certain attacks to whittle down your opponent\u2019s health, heal your own, and more.\u00a0 Other icons will give you more experience points or gold when matched.\u00a0 Skulls will automatically damage your enemy when matched.\u00a0 Since you take turns on the same board, some strategy ensues as you must think about how your move will affect your opponent.\u00a0 Do you match pieces to prevent them from using them?\u00a0 Or will matching pieces allow your enemy to use skulls?\u00a0 When you defeat an enemy, you\u2019ll gain experience points which you can use to divvy out for stronger skills and other things.<\/p>\n

Aside from the main story, you can replay battles with enemies you\u2019ve fought before, make a new hero if you get tired of yours, and even battle others online if you have a Switch Online account.\u00a0 You can control the game in two ways.\u00a0 If you are playing on a TV, you can only use the cursor.\u00a0 But if you are playing in handheld mode, you can use the cursor or the touch screen.\u00a0 But since the game is turn-based, using the touch screen is just as easy as the cursor.\u00a0 Only problems I had with the game were minor, and include a slightly generic fantasy story, music, and art.\u00a0 Plus the learning curve is pretty high, even on Easy classes.\u00a0 But if you enjoy match three puzzlers and the Puzzle Quest series in general, then you\u2019ll definitely want to download this if you have a Switch.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Most of the violence is just implied in the text.\u00a0 When you attack opponents, it just shows lightning animations hit the pictures of you and them for damage, but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for all the text, and younger gamers may find it a bit difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Candy Crush clones flooded the mobile market, one of the big match three giants was Puzzle Quest.\u00a0 It played like Bejeweled but with RPG elements added.\u00a0 It was a huge hit, and has had many versions, including one that featured Adventure Time characters from the cartoon that I reviewed a few years ago.\u00a0 And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19451,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449\/revisions\/19451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}