This is not a review

Not had a great deal of time to play Puzzle Quest 2 but initial impressions are a bit “meh”. Considering that I have been frothing for this since it was announced, the execution seems a little underwhelming. The gameplay can stand on it’s own as well as the original but at the moment the niggles are really standing out. Like the game forcing a save each time you even look at the DS funny, coming out of menus, coming out of conversations, coming out of your fucking inventory. It’s a few seconds out of my life when I just want to be furiously tapping on something to move the game forward.

I will probably sit and fart about with the different classes over the weekend and see which one I like the look of to play through the story with. I started out on the Assassin but I don’t really like the combo-style spell mechanics. Some of his effects match what I loved in the original, turning gems on the board different colours to make tons of 4′s and ultimately get another turn but the initial costs for the spells seem a little high.

I will pop something else up here after I have spent some more time with it. It’s not a terrible game but it just seems to play a little slower than the original.