Puzzle Quest 2 drops to $10 on XBLA

Puzzle Quest 2 is now 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live Arcade. With a sequel that stands up to and surpasses the original in many ways, it's actually a better buy at the same price as original Puzzle Quest.

Meanwhile, Puzzle Quest Galactrix is still 1600 Microsoft Points ($20) on XBLA. Nope, we can't explain it either.

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Puzzle Quest™ 2 is Now Available for 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE Arcade!

LOS ANGELES – April 12, 2011 – D3Publisher (D3P) today confirmed that Puzzle Quest 2 is now available for download at a new low price of 800 Microsoft Points ($10) on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Puzzle Quest 2 is an IGN "Editors' Choice Award" recipient and marks the return of the ultimate puzzle adventure in an all-new fantasy universe and is the follow-up to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, an Interactive Achievement Award winner for "Best Downloadable Game of the Year". Puzzle Quest 2 is rated "E10+" (Mild Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Theme) by the ESRB for Xbox 360. For more information on Puzzle Quest 2, please visit www.puzzle-quest.com and find Puzzle Quest 2 on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PuzzleQuest2.

About Puzzle Quest 2 Puzzle Quest 2 is an award winning puzzle adventure from developer Infinite Interactive that features a hallmark blend of match-3 gem matching and fantasy. Puzzle Quest 2 offers a captivating, rewarding, and accessible journey for players of all skill levels using all new weapons, spells, and shields as they make their way to reclaim the once peaceful village of Verloren from the evil clutch of the demon Gorgon. Players get closer to the Puzzle Quest action than ever before with a more intimate viewpoint of the world and choose from any of four character classes: Sorcerer, Templar, Barbarian, or Assassin, each providing interesting twists on class-specific mechanics for hours of replayability. Players level up their characters to progress through the adventure in Story Mode or dive into Instant Action, Tournament Mode, or Multiplayer Mode for a rich and diverse gameplay experience. Puzzle Quest 2 is also available for the Nintendo DS™ family of handheld systems from D3Publisher and on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Windows Phone 7, and mobile devices including Java and BREW from NAMCO BANDAI Games America. NAMCO BANDAI Games America will be releasing Puzzle Quest 2 on Android in the fall 2011.

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Reader Comments (20)

Lame, I just bought this a week ago at full price!

I never played this game because I couldn't beat the first.

Is the Random Number God just as heartless in the sequel?

@Perfidious Sinn I didn't play too much of it, but it seemed like the game played a little fairer with you than in the first.

I actually found the Puzzle Game portion of Galactrix a lot more satisfying... Felt more tactical when you have so many different directions the gems can fall. To me at least. But I do have to try PQ2 sometime to see what it's like.

Pass, still about $8 too much.

I think I'm the only one who thought that the first was significantly better.

Or maybe I was already exhausted of the formula. Who knows.

@Vesuvium Not the only one. I can't stand PQ2. All the enemies are the same in the beginning. The matches take way longer. I was hooked to PQ1...but PQ2...I can't handle more than 1 enemy a day now. I don't think it's that we're sick of the formula though. The game is actually slower paced.

@Noksukow Totally agree with you, I actually prefer fantasy western art over anime, but it looks totally amateurish in PQ2.

@Vesuvium I also felt the first game was significantly better. While I liked the new way to walk around in the world, the first game's items were far more varied in their effects. Between the items, mounts and capturing enemies, character builds were far more flexible too.

I just need to get around to beating the first one's DLC & I'll consider it

with all the awesome sales going on rite now i'm going to have to pass on this game.

20 Bucks what
You'd think Galactrix would have got a price drop by now

On a barely-related note, Marble Blast Ultra has been delisted, apparently. :(

Maybe they no Galactrix sucks and that a price drop will only hurt their sales, since the same suckers will buy it but by paying less money ;p

PQ2 wasn't as polished as the first. Having double venom attacks seemed to be the way to go, at least for the iOS version.

Arrrgh.

I was hopelessly addicted to the first game, pouring weeks into the damn thing. I've been waiting for the sequel to hit PSN.

And waiting.

And waiting.

All the while being tempted to buy Galactrix just to stave off withdrawal.

But at twenty dollars, Galactrix can go and f*ck itself right in its stupid overpriced facehole.

Seriously, Galactrix. You're a goddamned puzzle game. Just because you take place in space doesn't mean I'm going to shower you in money like some high-priced whore.

I can play a game of Bejeweled while listening to a Final Fantasy soundtrack for a hell of a lot less...

Galactrix has always annoyed me due to unfair LIVE play. The developers ignored my complaints that the time warp weapons needed to be limited to at most two per player so that the pllayer who went first didn't win by default. I just stopped trying to get the multi-win Achievements once everybody I played against was doing the same crap, and I'd have to become such a jerk to have a chance to win.

PQ2 was OK, but I don't bother with it anymore. Not sure why other than nothing NEW to do...

The original PQ on DS was kind of absurd. In a good way, but at some point, you could pretty much wreak havoc if geared right. The ports to the other consoles (PSN, PSP, PC...) definitely fixed a lot of these issues to make it "fairer".

PQ2 didn't rub me the right way, and Galactrix...well, I didn't stay with that girl for too long.

Probably because it sucks.

The original was amazing. Galatrix was meh and PQ2 is just terrible.

PQ > PQ2 > Thumb Twiddling > > Galactrix

@MooseMuffin I couldn't agree more on the depth of the original with the mounts and locations to control and the like. There also seemed to be a bit more enemy variety. The "dragon fight" from part two might have been tougher than anything from the original though...

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