Just fired up Puzzle Quest yesterday cause everyone has been raving about it.
Now just a little background on me here. I'm not a moron by a long shot. My brain age holds pretty steady around 25-30, I can clear tetris every time I try, and can beat the most difficult Picross puzzles in 10 minutes.....

I could not beat the fucking first level of Puzzle Quest.
I must've tried 10 times before deciding it was fucked. Anyone else seem to have trouble with the first level? I feel like I'm either playing the game completly wrong (doesn't seem likely) or the game itself is so hard/complicated that I'm missing shit.. and that its fucked (more likely).

Sorry about everything being fucked. Just been watching TPBs.

 

It just seems that when it comes to puzzle games nobody can touch the big N.

Picross
Puzzle Leage
Tetris
Brain Train: Sudoku
meteos
magnetica

any other good puzzle games published by Nintendo? Any not?

 

Had no troubles at all, remember it is a RPG as well so treat it like that! Most people go in and play it like Bejeweled and then wonder why they aren't doing well.

You work out your opponents weaknesses and your strengths and then play accordingly. Use your spells as well and clear gems that the computer are likely to use.

 

I dunno. I just wasn't feeling it. I have RPG's if I want an RPG experience. Puzzles are for like bam now satisfaction IMHO.

 

Well I guess thats your choice but this is very different to most games around, I really love this game to bits! For me it works as a game you can get stuck into for hours (even after I've completed it) and as a game you can play for 5 minutes (once you've gone up to level 20 or so). It bridges the gap between casual and hardcore. Its such a rewarding game too and also as someone who finds fantasy dialog to be boring lately I find it interesting in this game and makes a good little story..

 

*Puts hand up* Got stuck on second level, now stuck on 4th or 5th. And I play a silly amount of puzzle games. I'd never thought of it that way but I think other people in this thread are right, it's really a strategy-based rpg in disguise. I've never liked strategy games, found FF:TA a tad dull because of that. That would explain why my RP fanatic friends love Puzzle Quest to pieces, whereas I'd rather play quest mode on Zooo

 

Just you.

 

The AI gets combos because it is better at seeing them.

The AI also gets combos because the move indicator doesn't take into account turn order. If you look for your own moves rather than use the ones suggested, you'll do better.

 

I saw the video. He isn't predicting the moves. What he's doing is using an exploit in the random number generator to predict the first few moves of the first match he plays *after loading the game*.

The game is random; he's just pulling off a somewhat common random number exploit.

 

Random Number Generators are mathematical equations. You provide a seed number, and it generates a series of numbers in return. If you start with the same seed, you'll always see the same series of numbers.

The game is random and generates random numbers just fine. BUT it saves the random number seed. If you start a match, reset your DS, and start another match, you'll have the same layout you did originally. This is because the saved seed hasn't changed.

You could exploit it, I guess, if you really are masochistic enough to map out all the computer's moves (which change in relation to yours). But you'd have to map it out for EACH match AND you'd be doing quite a bit of saving/reloading.

The point remains, though, that the game is random and the AI doesn't know what's coming next.