trancejeremy
Adventurer
This is a puzzle/RPG coming out this week (er, next week, the 20th) from the creators of the Warlords series (or part of them, Steve Fawkner, anyway) for the DS and PSP (and eventually the PC and XBLA for 360).
http://www.infinite-interactive.com/puzzlequest/
It's pretty cool. It's basically an RPG, but for the combat, it's a puzzle game like Bejeweled.
Anyway, you can now apparently get the PC demo of it. At
http://www.gamedaily.com/canvases/gd/_a/download-puzzle-quest-demo/20070315101009990002
or (it doesn't like the demo page being linked to for some reason)
http://gamedaily.newaol.com/pub/0078701752/PuzzleQuestDemoSetup.zip
Reasonably sized, 35 megabytes or so.
Okay, to explain things further, basically combat is on a 8 x 8 grid, with each square filled with a mana crystal, a bag of coins, a purple star, or a skull. Each turn, you can swap a square with another square, making a 3 in a row (either vertical or horizontal), and the squares of that match all disappear. And you get what was in the square. Skulls do damage to your opponents hit points. Mana can be used to cast spells or perform special actions. And then whatever you are fighting has a turn.
It's pretty cool because because having different classes, each opponent is different. Like Trolls can regenerate, so you want to try to get all the blue mana (which he needs to regenerate). Or rats can cause disease, which drain your mana.
And as an RPG it's pretty cool, beacuse you can gain followers, capture creatures to use as your mount, forge magic items, conquer cities, build up your fortress. The graphics are pretty primitive, but still, the depth is fairly nice.
http://www.infinite-interactive.com/puzzlequest/
It's pretty cool. It's basically an RPG, but for the combat, it's a puzzle game like Bejeweled.
Anyway, you can now apparently get the PC demo of it. At
http://www.gamedaily.com/canvases/gd/_a/download-puzzle-quest-demo/20070315101009990002
or (it doesn't like the demo page being linked to for some reason)
http://gamedaily.newaol.com/pub/0078701752/PuzzleQuestDemoSetup.zip
Reasonably sized, 35 megabytes or so.
Okay, to explain things further, basically combat is on a 8 x 8 grid, with each square filled with a mana crystal, a bag of coins, a purple star, or a skull. Each turn, you can swap a square with another square, making a 3 in a row (either vertical or horizontal), and the squares of that match all disappear. And you get what was in the square. Skulls do damage to your opponents hit points. Mana can be used to cast spells or perform special actions. And then whatever you are fighting has a turn.
It's pretty cool because because having different classes, each opponent is different. Like Trolls can regenerate, so you want to try to get all the blue mana (which he needs to regenerate). Or rats can cause disease, which drain your mana.
And as an RPG it's pretty cool, beacuse you can gain followers, capture creatures to use as your mount, forge magic items, conquer cities, build up your fortress. The graphics are pretty primitive, but still, the depth is fairly nice.
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