Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition Brings Match-3 RPG Fun To Switch This Month

I've already long restarted the game as The Legend Returns after even more time racked up on NDS prior, so the odds of a new investment and another restart (not holding my breath for save data compatibility here) will very much depend on the brand new content in question.

I played the hell out of the PSP version, in spite of its bugs, and The Legend Returns was particularly responsible for my Switch purchase. I hope to see a remaster of Galactrix and 2 someday as well.

Any news on a hard copy of any of these PQ games on Switch? Would be awesome to see one, or even a collection of these games all in one tidy package.

@Blast16 Ehmmm... there's only 1 Puzzle Quest on Switch so far. So a collection would be a little bit overdose.
"Anime Puzzle Quest" has nothing to do with the game in the article here.

@Blast16 PQ Legend Returns is the only one currently Switch and is digital exclusive. Gems of War is kinda of a spiritual successor but it's a F2P online only game.

But will dum dums like me be able to finish the game?

We have a version on the Switch 1 already, don't we? The Legend Return

I played this on the DS and the eShop Switch 1 version to pieces, ha.

And I'll um probably download this like a sucker....

@Coxula Ha. There is one other Puzzle Quest on Switch (The Legend Returns) but apparently there are 8 PQ games currently in existence I think. 2 versions of the excellent original Challenge of the Warlords, but also a Magic the Gathering and Adventure Time version as well (never played those). PQ2 wasn't great and actually made the game boring. Similar to Galactrix. There is a PQ3 out there...somewhere...

It's a match-3 game? Makes me wonder when Candy Crush will make the jump to Switch 🤣. Anyway, I'll pass on it because of my tight gaming schedule, but hopefully anyone who plays it has fun with it.

Love to see this back, it is one of my favorite Match games (next to Zoo Keeper).
Does this support 4K on Switch 2?

@Coxula Haha, oops! For some reason someone on reddit or YouTube mentioned there being a couple of the PQ games on Switch. Thanks for clarifying 👍

@PKDuckman This is very helpful to know. Thank you!

Like @nHSnork, I sunk 100 hours into this on Switch, beat it, and kept going until the side quests just got too repetitive. And so I'm probably a couple hours shy of 100 percenting it.

To anyone who hasn't played it, I'd say absolutely go for this version. It's super fun. But just stick to the main quest. The side quests are just busy work. Oftentimes you beat one and the person who asked for the help will say, "I may ask you to do this for me again." And they do. Rinse and repeat ... and repeat.

The problem with the existing version on Switch (which is a remake from the original version on DS) really is speed. Stones drop like in slow motion. Which might be the original speed like on DS but is completely out of time and kept me from playing it.
People interested: Don't trap in the Gems of War trap nowadays. I actively played this "Life Service Game" for 6 years or so actively. But it got worse and worse over the years and is dead now. It's very sad because the game was really great back in the days.

I played the crap out of this on 3DS. Might be interested, but would really rather see a new game.

Just tried the demo for The Legend Returns. Pretty cool game and I had fun with it! I'll probably get the new 4K one when it drops.

One of my favorite games ever is Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes. I've bought the recent Definitive Edition rerelease. Can anyone recommend other match 3 must have games on Switch?

@Blast16
While I can't recommend a Switch match 3, I will say I've been playing Marvel Puzzle Quest on my phone since it launched.

Not sure how hard it would be to start it now and "catch up", but its quite fun.

Oh wow. I loved the original game. I didn't pick up any ports because I kept hearing about bugs and such. I didn't realize the Switch version of Legend Returns had a demo. I need to check that to see how it plays. But, might just wait for Immortal to pick up the game. Fingers crossed it's a quality port and plays well. Really been itching to play this game again.

@Daggot I've never played PQ before today, but I read online in a forum that it had a bit of input delay. FPS was fine, but the game just felt laggy, for lack of a better description.

When I played the Switch demo, I did notice just a little bit, but it's not an action title or a platformer, so it doesn't hinder anything in the gameplay, but to me it was noticeable. I'm likely going to get it either way, but I'm hoping the new Immortal Edition fixes that.

@TheBoilerman I will look into this. Thanks!

Didn't this just get a remaster? Are they remastering the remaster?

ooh, love PQ. Totally getting this.

@Blast16 LOL I downloaded the demo and then realized I had already played it. My character was still on my Switch too. It's fully playable. And the game cheats as bad as ever. I switched to Hard and that kinda made it more fun too since I know how the game works. Need to shake off my prediction skills to know where the cheating is going to happen. Best way I found to play this game, and others like it, are to play attrition style. I think I'm going to wait for this Immortal version though. They might polish things up a little more than what the current version is.

Played on PSP, DS, and the Switch. Its going to have some cool extra stuff for me to take a 4th go.

@Daggot @Coxula I put 100 hours into the Switch version and don't recall performance being much of an issue. I seem to remember it crashing once or twice during puzzles, but I could be mistaken.

Oh man puzzle quest is so addicting. Only played the ds version for the first time a couple years ago. So good, but kinda unhealthy lol

Boasts of 4K but doesn't offer a Switch 2 version. 🤨

@Burning_Spear Great to hear. Maybe it was another platform that had the issues.

I need to finish my 2nd run of this on my 3ds!

That is a nice surprise! Really enjoyed the first game back then.

I played the original way back on DS, when I had downtime while traveling abroad. I have fond memories, and I'll always love one of the 'battle' music themes, so I think this Immortal Edition will finally convince me to replay it!

As long as it can be played docked, then I might look into it...kinda wished we could just get a new proper Puzzle & Dragons game from those other guys, but doesn't look like that's happening.

Also there better be a Switch 2 version with mouse mode support...>.>

The eShop page for The Legend Returns, says the game will be delisted on the 19th, and if you already own that version of the game, then you get Immortal Edition at a discounted price (regular price is $14.99 for Immortal Edition. It doesn't show the discounted price yet.)

One can never have too much (of the original) Puzzle Quest. The Legend Returns was great, but also glitchy and had some really, really bad artwork in places. Hopefully that's been cleaned up.

Bought the DS version second hand to give it a chop for cheap. Was one of the best purchases I’ve made. If they have fix TLR it’s a day one for me.
@NotoriousWhiz
I payed and finished it soooo….

My wife and I really loved the Puzzle Quest games we played. This should be fun!!

@OneArmedGiant I played the Mario skin on DS(maybe 3ds). It was fun, but eventually got to a point where I could no longer progress.

So what's the story content like on (the older versions of) this game? It's obviously very different from your average run-of-the-mill JRPG as far as gameplay, but while that's normally a turnoff for me, this looks like it could be just wacky and offbeat enough to be fun.

On an unrelated note, a few years ago I read an article on the trends of gacha games in Japan, and it stated that the most popular gachas over there had match-3 style gameplay. So theoretically, there have been a bunch of mobile JRPGs in the Japanese gaming scene that had gameplay like this one.

A while ago I found a poll (800 voters) of the best puzzle games, with top ones being Tetris, Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble, Dr. Mario, etc.

Puzzle Quest made the top 10

@BuhBuhBuhBanned The story is just standard medieval fantasy, nothing out of the ordinary. The scope of the game is closer to some of the older fantasy strategy game alike Heroes of Might & Magic, where your characters go around command an army and capture towns as such.

If this includes the Nintendo DS version I will be one happy gamer! 😁

@TheBoilerman this is original puzzel quest game its mainly story driven single player game and the mess marvel is in now it might be better option

@Burning_Spear I'm not talking about performance. I'm talking about the speed the Gems drop. It's MUCH too slow (I mean: not only "just a bit") and you can't speed it up (like in Gems of War where you can set the speed up to x4 in the game options).
Puzzle Quest is a great game. The best 3-match game I have seen so far. I played it hundreds of hours on the DS. And the remake on Switch isn't worse then the original. It's just I can't play it because my brain is aching because of this "issue".
It would be sooo easy to patch, but I think they didn't.
Might be only me. For everyone interested there's a Demo for the game.
I wonder what the Devs do with the Immortal Edition for people that already have The Legend Returns. I mean... 4K graphics and 1 more class are hardly a sales pitch.

@PKDuckman Might be because Steve Fawkner is the man behind Puzzle Quest. The man that created the Warlords Series of games...

@Coxula I don't remember that, but it has been a while. Do you mean when the puzzle first loads, after moves or both?

@Burning_Spear Moving Gems and time it needs to refill the board after a match or a cascade of matches. Just overall speed IN the game. Not loading times, performance hickups, something like this.
Bc. we talked about the game I played it again today for 2 hours or so. It's not horrible. It's just... when you come from Gems of War with 4 times speed setting it just doesn't feel like being the right tempo (just like GoW with 1x speed setting).
You might want to ignore my critics. It's a very subjective thing. It's a great game. But I will not double dip if I see in game videos they didn't improve the speed. In a game where you sink dozens of hours things like that cost a LOT of time.

Oh on oh no no no no, wasted too much time on this game before. I can't, I cannot...

But it calls out to me.