Puzzle Quest: Galactrix Review (PC)
Like its predecessor, Puzzle Quest: Galactrix is a role-playing game of sorts in which turn-based battles play out on something resembling a Bejeweled board. Galactrix takes Puzzle Quest out of its original fantasy setting into the realm of sci-fi and, at first glance, it appears to retain and improve on much of what made the first game great. The new hexagonal playing field with variable gravity initially feel like an exciting innovation, but ultimately they’re the game’s undoing because blind luck now plays much too big a part in determining the outcome of almost every encounter.
How She Move movies Almost all of your time in Puzzle Quest: Galactrix is spent moving hexagonal pieces around in an attempt to create same-color lines of three or more. In the original Puzzle Quest, in which the pieces were square, this was quite a challenge at times, and it wasn’t uncommon for the board to be reset when it became impossible for any move to be made. In Galactrix this is never an issue, because now that you can move pieces in six directions you’re generally spoiled for choice when looking to create a line. Thankfully, there’s still some skill involved in deciding which lines to play, not least because different-colored gems serve different purposes; for example, blue gems replenish your ship’s shields, red gems are used to power weapons, and white gems earn you experience points. Special equipment items–the equivalent of the original Puzzle Quest’s character spells–also consume a combination of the red, yellow, and green gems that you’ve collected anytime you use them to hamstring your opponent or to give yourself a temporary advantage, and whereas creating lines of skulls dealt damage to your enemy in the first game, you now need to create lines of bombs for the same result.