History VideoGame / PuzzleQuest

* There is also a spinoff called ''Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign'' available only for iOS and Android, which combines slightly altered mechanics with a storyline and characters based on the ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' universe.[[note]]Though it appears Dark Reign is a PQ game InNameOnly - the game play and leveling system are direct lifts from VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons. Infinite Interactive was a consultant on Dark Reign's design, though, and it was published by the same publisher that handles the other PQ games.[[/note]]

* FailOSuckyname: "Gorgon" isn't exactly a fitting name for a FinalBoss. Sure, it qualifies as a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Name To Run Away From Really Fast]], but it's also a minor example, more befitting a midboss. And it doesn't even have [[TakenForGranite Petrifying Gaze]] in either of its forms! Seriously, why couldn't it have been named something like "[[Literature/LordOfTheFlies Beelzebub]]"?

* There is also a spinoff called ''Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign'' available only for iOS and Android, which combines slightly altered mechanics with a storyline and characters based on the ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' universe.[[note]]Though it appears Dark Reign is a PQ game InNameOnly - the game play and leveling system are direct lifts from VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons.[[/note]]

* FiveManBand: Several possible combinations, depending on which optional party member(s) you pick up. One possible example:
** TheHero: You
** TheLancer: Darkhunter
** TheBigGuy: Khalkus
** TheObiWan: Sunspear
** TheChick: Serephine

* There is also a spinoff called ''Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign'' available only for iOS and Android, which combines slightly altered mechanics with a storyline and characters based on the ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' universe.[[note]]Though it appears Dark Reign is a PQ game InNameOnly - the game play and leveling system are direct lifts from VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragon.[[/note]]

* There is also a spinoff called ''Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign'' available only for iOS and Android, which combines slightly altered mechanics with a storyline and characters based on the ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' universe.

** Another for the ''LordOfTheRings'': In the film of ''The Two Towers'', Aragorn tells Eowyn that it's hard to tell male dwarves from female dwarves because of their beards, and she laughs. In the game, the player character meets a female dwarf named Khrona… who has a beard.

* LostForever: If you follow a certain sub-mission just before you enter Lord Bane's keep, you will lose one of your good-aligned companions[[hottip:*:Darkhunter, Khalkus, Serephine, Flicker, Winter, and Elistara]] at every step forward.

** LampshadeHanging: An April Fool's website by the creator explained how to turn off AI cheating.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Averted; your character is devoted to Queen Gwendholyn, who by all appearances is a just and benevolent ruler.

* {{Jerkass}}: Emperor Selentius. After helping him with various problems, he responds to a request from Queen Gyendholyn for help against the undead problem with, basically, "Not my problem." Even his own subjects think he's useless and corrupt.

* ShoutOut: [=ED24=] is clearly inspired by Marvin from ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.

PuzzleQuest is a series of games from Infinite Interactive. At their base, they are {{Match Three Game}}s with RPGElements. In each game, battles are fought by matching up various gems and other symbols on a grid. Depending on what the player matches up, the gems will turn into one of various types of mana or energy to use for spells/attacks, damage to the enemy, or bonus experience or money. The player can expand their power through the use of various mini-games, which represent ItemCrafting, learning new spells, or leveling up.

* BraggingRightsReward: Beating the {{Bonus Boss}}es in the handheld versions gives you a rather insignificant amount of gold and XP, considering the lengths you'll need to go to in order to defeat them. You don't even get the achievements of the XboxLiveArcade or {{Steam}} versions.

* '''Puzzle Chronicles''', was released mid-April 2010 for many systems, featuring a desert theme and a gameplay style similar to ''Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo''. In it, you play as a member of desert tribe looking to free his enslaved people and gain revenge on the slavers that captured them. ''Puzzle Quest 2'' appears to be based on this game.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: Deathbringer in ''Warlords'', Bola Mines in ''Galactrix''

* GlassCannon: The Wizard class in ''Warlords'', Ram, Catapult, and Trebuchet units in ''Kingdoms'', [=PQ2=]'s Sorcerer class.

** Challenge of the Warlords:''Warlords'' meets ''{{Bejeweled}}''.

* DeathSeeker: Darkhunter looks like this pretty often, especially when you learn about his tragic past. [[spoiler:He probably relegated himself to perdition long before Greythane declares such.]]

** Not quite game breaking, but the original PlaystationPortable release was misprogrammed so that allies abilities never activated.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Flicker

* LostForever: If you follow a certain sub-mission just before you enter Lord Bane's keep, you will lose one of your good-aligned companions[[hottip:*:Darkhunter, Khalkus, Seraphine, Flicker, Winter, and Elistara]] at every step forward.

* RunawayFiance: Serephine

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Choose the less moral choice in most side missions, you'll get stuck with a puny reward or miss out on a far superior one.

** Or not. Nobody ever says it a theft after all... [[spoiler:And if you attempt to set Beta Prime free during the endgame, she instead chooses to stay with you, under the guise of Kirine Thwaites. Kirine was Beta Prime all along!]]

* BarbarianHero: The protagonist is a paper-thin Conan imitation. In fact the whole game is basically one long homage to Conan. Including the snake cult!

* ACommanderIsYou: The battles are your army against the opponent's army, rather than one-on-one battles in Puzzle Quest.

* RepeatableQuest: Many quests are repeatable, such as an early quest to patrol the area for monsters.

** An (old) NPC says, [[{{Diablo}} "Hello, my friend! Stay a while, and listen!"]] later on in the game.

* SchrodingersPlot: The mission "The Missive", right at the beginning of the game. Whether your missive is a feint or not depends on whether or not you defeat the Thief. Defeat him, your missive's the genuine article. He defeats you, it's a decoy.

PuzzleQuest is a series of games from Infinite Interactive. At their base, they are {{Match Three Game}}s with RPGElements. In each game, battles are fought by matching up various gems and other symbols on a grid. Depending on what the player matches up, the gems will turn into one of various types of mana or energy to use for spells/attacks, damage to the enemy, or bonus experience or money. The player can expand their power througchh the use of various mini-games, which represent ItemCrafting, learning new spells, or leveling up.

* Jerkass: Emporer Selentius. After helping him with various problems, he responds to a request from Queen Gyendholyn for help against the undead problem with, basically, "Not my problem." Even his own subjects think he's useless and corrupt.

* TheJimmyHartVersion: Is the victory fanfare a riff from the old BattlestarGalactica theme? Not quite.

** And therefore LyingCreator, because the computer knows in advance the outcome of at least some "random" events (at minimum, the extra turns randomly granted after making any match).

* ArtisticLicenseStatistics: No one buys that the random events are truly random or that the enemy stats act the way they should. (And it may be difficult to convince them of this so long as the computer opponent racks up five extra turns and 25 mana of every conceivable color whenever it wants to.)

** Or, when faced with an enemy with [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard ridiculous DEF capabilities]], whichever spells lower defense the most/longest.

PuzzleQuest is a series of games from Infinite Interactive. At their base, they are {{Match Three Game}}s with RPGElements. In each game, battles are fought by matching up various gems and other symbols on a grid. Depending on what the player matches up, the gems will turn into one of various types of mana or energy to use for spells/attacks, damage to the enemy, or bonus experience or money. The player can expand their power through the use of various mini-games, which represent ItemCrafting, learning new spells, or leveling up.

The series is very polarizing on the TheComputerIsACheatingBastard / ArtisticLicenseStatistics scale. There's a strong belief in the fandom that the computer either predicts or outright changes the falling gems in its favor, but nothing short of looking at the underlying code will settle the arguments over whether that's actually true or just the players' selective memory.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Or so it would appear. It tends to make a lot of suboptimal moves that result in huge combos using gems that aren't on the screen yet. It is, of course, statistically possible for these moves to be entirely random - but nine times out of ten, it's the computer that gets them. Hmmm.
** I think this is worth expanding upon, especially in the first game. If you get 4 in a row or 5 in a row you recieve an extra turn. If you match skulls, you do damage. There are +5 Skulls that glow red and do extra damage and detonate every tile around them, giving them to the matcher. Sometimes you can have two of these on screen at once. If they're close, the enemy will probably get a match, 4-of-a-kind it, get an extra turn and match the skulls up. If they're far away from each-other, he'll probably match up, get several free turns from non-existent-at-the-time gems, match the skulls, the exploded tiles will probably drop in a new set of +5s, and what, he gets an extra turn from matching those +5s? And those 2 +5s are close enough that one extra turn from the AI will allow him to match them and kill you in one turn. These situations happen multiple times and can result to you losing even the first set of battles upwards of FIVE times before you get lucky enough to win them. And if the enemy goes first and has two +5 skulls within matching range? Better restart!
** [=PQ2=] ''LOVES'' to set you up by suggesting a move that will give the enemy the next 7 or so turns.