Puzzle & Dragons is a puzzle video game with elements of RPGs and strategy games, developed by GungHo Online Entertainment for the iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire platforms. In Japan, the title is often shortened to Pazudora, while in English it is shortened to PAD. Puzzle & Dragons is at its core a match-three puzzle game, requiring players to move and match colored orbs arranged in a grid. The amount and type of matches determine which of the six monsters on the player's team attack the waves of enemy monsters and how much damage they do. An additional layer of challenge is the acquisition, selection, and improvement of a team of monsters from among thousands ranging from standard fantasy fare, to deities from several religions and mythologies and characters from popular entertainment franchises. The game is free-to-play and financed by the sale of in-game currency. It has seen great commercial success in Japan, where it was downloaded 32 million times by November 2014, and was also released in other Asian countries as well as in North America and many European countries. In September 2015, total worldwide downloads surpassed 50 million. Puzzle & Dragons is the first mobile game in history to reach $1 Billion in revenue.
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If you're not trying to pull specific monsters and evolve certain monsters all the way, the gacha is very fair
Quit recently because of lack of good collabs. It's the primary reason I started playing but all they do nowadays is re-run an extremely niche series which wanes for intrest.
Admittedly I haven't checked in about 5 months but I doubt there's anything good.
There's also the lack of Gung-Ho bringing over good collabs to NA. I myself am not a "big" One Piece fan, but would just not port this over when usually it's like 3-6 months for JP collabs to hit NA if they do. Same with Marvel.
Granted besides the collab complaints, the game is pretty solid and "deep" for a mobile game but lacks in intresting content to do. Doing dungeons eventually just gets stale.
The most fun part by far is rolling on the gacha and trying to get some pieces to form a fun but coherent strategy. Even if it's obviously worst than one u already own.
The OST is actually pretty good, it's not the most memorable but hearing some of the music on "intense" bosses is satisfying.
Multiplayer aspect may aswell not exist cause ain't no one playing that in NA and on JP from personal experience people just prefer to do solo or theorycraft. It's nice if you can convince one of your friends to get into the game, which I tried and they did play but quit way earlier than me (Rank 50+ on theirs).
For anyone curious I was rank 880+ on NA (Which I quit first) and about 600+ on JP.
There's also a lot of powercreep, which is fine considering their foremost goal is to make profit when their product is free. But starts getting irritating when you have to build an entire new team every 3+ months. Though usually a lot of older pieces are still good / get buffed on reruns or have some good equipment effects.
Maybe i'll come back to it one day though it'll probably be under a new account if anything.