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Yeah. It's a Puzzler/RPG. Match 3 units horizontally to build a defensive wall. Match 3 units vertically to begin charging an attack. Units of the same color that attack at the same time get a bonus. Stacking units of the same type on top of one another increases their attack power. There are also Elite and Champion units. Elites and Champions take up 2 and 4 squares respectively, but they have special abilities such as healing, shields, acid, etc.

That's the gist of it, but there are lots of other little nuances. For example, the spearmen I mentioned above destroy any enemy units they encounter without losing any health if the enemy units have lower health than they do.

Here's the Metacritic page and the game's info page with some embedded videos. (The second video shows some gameplay.)

I also am on the second campaign... and thanks to the introduction of random battles am now grinding those to max out the levels on my Champion creatures. Siiiigh.

Same here, Thin_J. I took me many tries to figure out the first but I solved the second in one and the third in a couple. I could've spent more time on this during the holidays but I wanted to finish reading a story which I'm almost done with. Oh, and I was also stuck on the dual bosses.

I finished the game last week, and it was excellent all the way through. Lots of variety in play styles based on race, units select, and artifact equipped.

I loved the puzzle battles too. I remember getting stuck on one, I think in Godric's chapter, that I tried more then a dozen times until I had a 'Ohhhhh!' realization moment that was gloriously satisfying.

That was the hardest and most obnoxious fight in the game. I beat it by bringing three groups of my fastest unit, and just going nuts. The bombing happens every other round, I think - you just need to continuously whittle away.

Is the solution:

It would be if I had any ghosts. I spent that entire world section using an item that amps up one of the other elite units. When I lost the last batch of ghosts the game gave me for free I never bought any more.

*Got through it. Just kept hammering at it. Ended up winning with the magic spell thing that destroys all your units and forms the fireball. Still, took for freakin ever, and was kind of a bummer since the game had been so consistent until then.

Granted... it probably would have been ten times easier if I had some ghosts.

It's a three part fight near the end of Aaidan's section.

Does the game allow you to equip ghosts on that character's fight even if you don't have any? I didn't actually try equipping them. I knew I didn't have any left.

I've since progressed to what I'm pretty sure is the endboss, but they make you do it with Nadia. She is by far my least favorite of all the characters.

Unlike the others I didn't level up her or all her units before encountering the endboss for her section, so I'm a level 9 character with level 2 and 3 units fighting a level 15 boss. Said boss has 400 hitpoints and requires me to focus all my attacks up the middle four rows while somehow defending those same rows against a giant attack that kills me in one hit.

Woohoo. This is far far far worse than any of the cheating bossfights I ever encountered in Puzzle Quest.

It's only the second time since I've started the game that it's been truly frustrating but man... is it ever bad.

*For clarity's sake: the game allows you to go back a bit and keep leveling up when you finally encounter the final boss. My issue is that I don't like this character or the ways most of her units work, but I have to wander around grinding it out to get her and her units leveled enough to even have a chance against the boss.

I just wish it would let me fight the endboss with whichever character I choose. It's the end of the game. Why force me to use the one character I don't like to play? All the characters are there. This character has already had one big boss fight. What reason is there to force me to keep playing her? Ugh.

Actually, the issue here is that the final boss takes place in this particular character's "world" or stage or whatever you want to call it. So while the game does automatically level up all the other characters (in some cases higher than you can possible level them to start with) it does not automatically level up Nadia when you reach the boss.

If you finish Godric's stages with him at level 8, he'll still be level 10 when you end up using him later on in the game. I leveled Aidan to level 10, and he was level 15 when the game let me use him once later on.

This is only an issue with Nadia and the final boss.

It's great, but I'm not sure what to say. There would be more to discuss if we could play multiplayer with each other (which my wife and I have both got into recently, makes for a great 10-20 min game).

I agree. It's hard to talk about this game, but I think I'm at 30 hours in two weeks. That's a lot for me and a handheld game anymore. In fact, this game got me away from SMT: Devil Survivor and I was totally loving that game.

Glad I'm not the only one. Barring one other smallish moment of frustration that may actually have been entirely my fault, the game's been really great. Makes it hurt all the more when the ending sucks so hard.

I just finished the game. Holy hell was the last boss difficult. It took me something like 6 tries, though to the game's credit I got closer with each attempt. The last couple were nail biters though, but I absolutely destroyed the boss on my last try. Didn't even need to resurrect with the Phoenix Feather.

And I'm holding onto this one. I played through Puzzle Quest twice ... and I didn't even like it that much. This, I liked a whole lot more.