Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign

A while back I get one of those pop ups that you get on Steam advertising other games to you. I see Marvel characters on it and have mixed feelings already. I have enjoyed the Facebook games to an extent but not sure if I want to put up with more of the free to play format from them. But, alas I am a sucker for comic book stuff so I downloaded the game even though it doesn't have steam achievements or trading cards. Hopefully I would find enough entertainment in it.

So first thing I notice is that I am playing Puzzle Quest. You would think I would notice this but sometimes I'm a bit thick. If you have played Puzzle Quest before you know it is a story based game where you fight your opponents in a bejeweled style game where you match gems to collect them and use the gems to power up your abilities. This game is all that with a Marvel wrapping paper on everything. If you are familiar with the way they do stories in Marvel's Facebook games then you will be quite familiar with the stories in this. It uses the same ISO-8 story arc that they other FTP games have been using. Your characters heal over time and you earn rewards for each match that you can use to obtain new characters, or covers.

Each cover unlocks a character and if you already have that character then you get a power up for one of that characters powers. Each character has a rarity shown with the amount of stars above its cover and the more levels you have in your abilities the more you can level your character. You level your character using the ISO-8 that you have collected from battles and daily log-ins. As your character levels you'll do more damage and get more abilities. Characters can also be bought with the games in came currency. You can buy it with real monies or try and earn it from winning battles. Slots must also be purchased to hold all of your characters.

The standard amount of Marvel collecting addiction has been applied to this game leaving you coming back after your heroes have healed to fight more baddies. With most members of your roster you can find different versions such as modern, classic, Marvel NOW! Need room for a cover? You can just sell old covers that you aren't gong to use anymore. For me I sold that storm as soon as I could. I just didn't feel like using it. The Hawkeye they start you off with however I have leveled up quite a bit.

So how did I feel about Dark Reign? Meh. It is definitely a good time waster. My heroes take too much damage as poorly as I play so I don't end up playing for long. It is another addition to my list of games that I log into to do dailies. At least this one I feel like I am getting somewhere. I log into Solforge daily and all I get is more cards that I still do nothing with but dailies. I will keep playing for some time to come I'm sure but the game really did one good thing for me. I went and bought Puzzle Quest. This game is great if you don't have a copy of any of the versions of Puzzle Quest. It is everything that is good about Puzzle Quest with the added on annoyance that you would expect from energy timers and the like on Facebook games. So if you can't afford a copy of puzzle quest or are really in to comics I would suggest it. If you aren't into comics but just want to play a puzzle game I would say that you should pass on this one and pick up Puzzle Quest: Galatrix.

One more thing I want to talk about before I go is Marvel AR and Black Widow. First off I loved Black Widow. If you liked Hawkeye there is a good chance you will like Black Widow. The art is excellent and the story is what you would expect. It takes a lot of ques from its other Avenger's solo comic but it doesn't seem to detract from this book. I'm looking forward to more and sad that I didn't pick up the variant cover. I hadn't been paying much attention to the AR stuff in the comics that I have been reading recently. Mostly because I have been reading them on my phone or on the computer already and didn't have time to scan the AR code in the actual book. However after enjoying this book as much as I did I wanted more and the AR was the way for me to obtain that. However after nearly 20 mins of trying different lighting solutions and different internet connections even I got now where. I just couldn't get the AR to work for me. So I was a sad panda about that I hope that this isn't something that is going to happen a lot with these books now that I am reading All New Marvel Now. At least now I can appreciate that the AR wasn't just an ad in the back of the magazine.

So that is about it for this week. Because weeks as far as this blog is concerned start on Wednesdays. Thank you for keeping up. I swear there used to be a way to hashtag my blog posts to get people coming here to read the things the wanted to read. I think they do it now as actual word by word on the post but I'm not sure. If anybody knows how that works now let me know in the comments. If you don't comment I'll be sad again. And you will know that it was all your fault. I loved you and this is what I get from you. I'll keep on loving and you'll just take and take until there is nothing left of me. Take some of my fat with you while you are at it. Also if you can take stretch marks take that with you as I will look silly as a skinny man with stretch marks. Like I got pregnant or something. Anyways lets get onto what is up for the comic week.

Wednesday I'm going to pick up (or put in my box):

Batwoman #27 (Scribblenauts Unmasked Variant Cover) if I can find one. If not i'll pick up a different version.
^Harley Quinn #2
^Scribblenauts Unmasked A Crisis Of Imagination #1
Trinity Of Sin Pandora #7 so that I can get my Constantine fix
^All-New X-Factor #2 
All-New X-Men #22.NOW 
*Avengers #25 
*Black Widow #2
Hawkeye #16
Origin II #2 (Of 5)
*Avengers World #2
*Invaders #1

Now the problem here is that that is easily $40 worth of comic books and I have maybe $15 I can spend until payday. I will be picking up the asterisk comics on Wednesday for sure and ^ comics after payday. everything else is going to have to wait for additional funds.

Saturday Heroclix
On Saturday I'll have finished reading Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe and I'll give you my take on it. I expect to enjoy this one.

Tuesday Filler
Nothing in particular is planned for Tuesday so whatever comes up will be what comes up. Most likely I'll do some more talking about

PS. I added the ability to tip me with bitcoin/dogecoin/litecoin/feathercoin so that is an option. Any size tip is awesome. I honestly feel cool just having my 5 dogecoin so far.