Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns

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User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 23
  3. Negative: 5 out of 23

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  1. Rob7ing
    May 2, 2020
    5
    Fun but Frustrating

    I bought this for pure nostalgia purposes. I clearly remembered it more fondly than it deserved. While it has a lot of great features, lots of customization, tons of skills and equipment, it still boils down to the level of fun vs frustration. FUN * Interesting story, quests, world, and characters * Lots of things to build and unlock * Very satisfying to win and    Fun but Frustrating

    I bought this for pure nostalgia purposes. I clearly remembered it more fondly than it deserved. While it has a lot of great features, lots of customization, tons of skills and equipment, it still boils down to the level of fun vs frustration. FUN

    * Interesting story, quests, world, and characters
    * Lots of things to build and unlock
    * Very satisfying to win and traverse storyline

    FRUSTRATING

    * Match-3 Puzzle randomization overwhelmingly favors CPU
    * Grinding hurts you as enemies level up with you. Therefore it is impossible to grind to defeat a tough
    Boss. They just get stronger. * Spending 30 minutes on a battle just to lose leads to Rage Quits


    I guess I’m going to delete this and wait for Puzzle Quest 2. Maybe that’s the game I was yearning for here.    … Expand
  2. richp
    Apr 26, 2020
    3
    Just pure RNG, there is a tiny amount of skill but 90% of the game is just down to luck. For a cheap mobile title that's fine but don't be fooled into paying full price for a 10+ year old game that's been shoddily ported.
  3. SayXZ
    Sep 19, 2019
    0
    Awesome Game, but right now unplayable because the first skeleton is way to strong. It seems like it's a bug because the enemie before has like 60 Hp and the skeleton has almost 1000.
  4. aphlexx
    Mar 2, 2021
    1
    Original Challenge of the Warlords is great, I completed it years ago on PC. At first I was excited to have the remake on a modern Switch console. But the remake turned out to be an unbalanced piece of trash, even on the easiest difficulty. There's no point in strategy and tactics anymore, since they added x2, x4, x6 mana wildcards (that appear very often though supposed to be very rare)Original Challenge of the Warlords is great, I completed it years ago on PC. At first I was excited to have the remake on a modern Switch console. But the remake turned out to be an unbalanced piece of trash, even on the easiest difficulty. There's no point in strategy and tactics anymore, since they added x2, x4, x6 mana wildcards (that appear very often though supposed to be very rare) that AI player uses to gain full power on early turns and bombard you with ultimate spells, or heal itself insanely, and you are basically defenseless because you get similar powerful spells only many levels later. The battles make no sense anymore, it's just pain and grinding and pure RNG that makes any strategies completely pointless. I can assure you that there were no such nonsense in the original. I'm very disappointed and regret that Nintendo policy doesn't allow refunds. This was a very nice game at its time, but now it's a brainless RNG cash grab that noone seemed to playtest before releasing. Avoid it at all costs.… Expand
  5. fiesher
    Sep 26, 2019
    9
    The legend has come back.. to Nintendo!

    Gameplay is amazingly deep, with tons of customization, and a lot of quests. Hoping for an in-game Combat Speed setting to help the grind in a future update.

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Apr 29, 2020
    85
    Think of Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns as the definitive edition of a game that defined an era. [Issue #43 – November/December 2019, p. 20SW]
  2. Gaming Age
    Oct 16, 2019
    67
    It’s far less insidious than any of the myriad match-3 games that clog up Apple and Google’s respective storefronts, but it’s also not all that fun unless you really love grinding your way through match-3 puzzles. It could be a lot worse, and kudos to the game’s developers for resisting the allure of monetization, but Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns’ appeal will definitely be limited.
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  3. Gaming Nexus
    Oct 15, 2019
    80
    Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns is still the same game but that isn’t a bad thing. Bundling in all the DLC and adding some new classics, this match-3 RPG hybrid is just as addictive today as it was over a decade ago.
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