what

[spatch]

PUZZLE QUEST: Hey, Spatch.

SPATCH: What?

PQ: Do you like Bejeweled?

SPATCH: Uh, sure.

PQ: And do you like RPGs?

SPATCH: Yeah, I guess.

PQ: Then I bet you'd like me! I'm an unholy cross between Bejeweled and an RPG!

SPATCH: Doesn't sound all that compelling. In this game, do I just, like, battle a computer opponent by playing Bejeweled at them?

PQ: Yeah! More or less. We take turns making moves and stuff.

SPATCH: Puzzle Pirates already did a single-player variant on Bejeweled, and they had more than just one game to play, too. I just don't see what the appeal would be here. Running around a land playing Bejeweled against monsters?

PQ: Oh come on, give us a tryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

SPATCH: I've got other things to do.

PQ: You know you waaaaaant toooooooo...

SPATCH: Oh, ok, let's just see what all the fuss is about.

EIGHT HOURS LATER...

SPATCH: Fuck you, Puzzle Quest.

PQ: Nice move! Now watch as I do a chain of multiple four-in-a-rows and make sure I get all the good adds and smack you around for good measure!

SPATCH: Fuck you fuck you fuck you.

PQ: Aw, I left you with one move, see?

SPATCH: Yeah, one that sets you up for another combo chain. You cheat, Docta Jones.

PQ: Didn't you have stuff to do?

SPATCH: Yeah, but it can wait until I get to level 15 and win the fight against the ogre and capture that other dood so I can learn his spells and then buy some new gear so I can bolster my spells and do damage every time I capture yellow mana and and and and and and OH HOW I LOATHE YOU PUZZLE QUEST

SATAN: Yay! That's another notch in my satanic bedpost!



fin

Comments

[saint-buddha.livejournal.com]

My dad's computer came with that game. It was like crack cocaine from day one.

[ikkarus01.livejournal.com]

Wow. I had that same conversation. It's uncanny.

[invisibelle.livejournal.com]

*googles puzzle quest*

[lno.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to do the same, but I know it can only end in tears.

[storme]

tears and FURIOUS DETERMINATION TO BEAT THE DRAGONS

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

For all its evil when you have Things to Do, PQ has been a steadfast compatriot on airplanes.

[grendelyn.livejournal.com]

Puzzle Quest owned me for weeks and weeks. I was sad when it ended. :(

[jphotog.livejournal.com]

I am at level 46 and will be ecstatic when it ends. Nothing else has been in my DS for a month at least, and I have other games to play!

[grendelyn.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to say, it doesn't really end. You can continue playing forever, you just beat the end guy and keep going.

It's an evil evil game.

And I want to play it again now.

[pecosy.livejournal.com]

If Reno finds out about this, my child may grow up without a father.

[pecosy.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounded more ominous than intended. More that I'd never see him again, not that I'd kill him.

[beth47.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. Puzzle Quest was the first DS game that has actually made me suffer from the great weariness that I had previously only known from larger console games.


("OW. Neck hurts. Back aches. Hand is slightly tingly. Numb soon, if I don't quit. Maybe I should go eat, or sleep, or something.")

[isquiesque.livejournal.com]

I accidentally erased my save file after I was level 20 or so. No matter. The game is so addictive that I started over from scratch!

If you find a support group, please post about it.