Puzzle Quest 2 Preview
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So we're back to the old board, and the infamous skull gems that fire out direct damage to your opponent are still here, but now the experience and money you come entirely from simply doing battle - there aren't gems for that anymore. There is a new action gem, though, and building up action points by matching those allow you to swipe at your enemy with your equipped weapon. Yep, you now have equipped gear in Puzzle Quest 2, and the four classes - assassin, barbarian, sorcerer, and templar - all have a range of items they can use. They've also got unique sets of spells and abilities that can be activated mid-battle, and depend on different types of mana which are gotten from matching the appropriately-colored gems in combat.
PQ2 does break up the constant questing and fighting with some goofy, fun mini-games, all of which also use the basic gem-matching game. In one situation, a building was on fire, and I had to match blue gems to put it out. Accidentally matching red gems made the fire worse, and getting action points allowed me to unleash a special weapon for the fight: a bucket of water. What made this amusing was that when I did, I got an impressive swooshing attack screen for it, making my bucket-wielding skills look masterful and very epic.
