A few weeks ago, we found out the next entry in the popular Puzzle & Dragons series – Puzzle & Dragons GOLD – would be released in North America on 15th January for $14.99. Now, to help promote this upcoming Switch eShop title, GungHo has released a new English-dubbed trailer for the game, which you can view below.
If you're not familiar with this series, it started out life on smartphones and made its way across to the 3DS in 2015. The North American release of the new entry lines up with the Japanese launch, but right now, there's no word on a European release.
As shown in the trailer above, GOLD will feature intense puzzling action, modes to challenge friends and rivals, a story mode, the ability to unlock and collect new monsters, and a practice mode. For more information, check out our previous post.
Have you played this series before? Are you planning to play the new game? Tell us below.
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I'm just wondering how well it'll work while docked...also wondering how many monsters will be in this.
@Joeynator3000 Yeah I'm not seeing how you could do this with a controller. Not well, anyway.
@Kalmaro It can work via pointer controls with a Joycon, just wondering how well. >.<
@Joeynator3000 With how much your hand is likely to shake, you better have surgeon accuracy!
Looking forward to playing this. Been a while now since I played Puzzle & Dragons Z but I put a ton of time into that and really enjoyed it.
@Joeynator3000 Yeah, I can't see it playing well docked. I'm glad the ability of docking the Switch hasn't completely put off developers porting touch screen focused games to the Switch though. There'll always be some people who complain when a game doesn't play well in docked more or is only playable in handheld mode but in most cases the alternative would be no game at all.
@BenAV Eh, I'm sure they'll figure something out...it can't be that bad. >.>
@Joeynator3000 There have been other games that play pretty horribly docked. Really not a big deal at all though if that ends up being the case.
Goodbye free time. You were cool.
@BenAV I haven't ran into any...the games I have that use pointer controls seem to work fine.
@Joeynator3000 Some games make good use of the pointer controls (like the Tomorrow Corporation games) but some like TWEWY I don't think are really meant to be played that way. Plus stuff like multi-touch rhythm games like VOEZ and Deemo that don't really translate well to button controls. Doing well at Puzzle & Dragons requires a lot of speed and precision so while it's not impossible with pointer or maybe even button controls, it'd probably be a pretty big handicap compared to playing with the touch screen. My main point though is that it's fine for games to focus on using the touch screen at the expense of docked mode. It's also fine to make use of motion controls at the expense of handheld mode. I'd rather devs make use of all the options the Switch has available as they see fit rather than trying to restrict themselves to only making games that work well in all play styles.
I was only thinking about the 3ds game of this last night and that they should make a new one (I had no idea about this Switch release). Creepy coincidence.
I finally got around to playing the 3DS game and it's pretty fun, my biggest complaint is the tutorials slow things down for the first 30 minutes.
I really got into this on the phone way back when, then got it for the 3DS and didn’t really enjoy it like that. I’ll stick to free to play if I wanna play P&D...
I love the 3ds version and Im playing it now almost done.
The Mario version on 3ds was brilliantly done!!!
Was expecting this to be a full retail release and was a bit unsure. $14.99, though? Sold. I'll be downloading this ASAP.
The mobile game is fun, but I need story/plot/progression to really stay interested in something.
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