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I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything about Brave Frontier on this forum. It is similar to PD, but with a jrpg feel and less actual gameplay which I prefer. The puzzle part of puzzles and dragons quickly got overwhelming and tedious, whereas the battles in brave frontier are easier to play more absently. It still has a LOT of depth though, and I hAvent been concerned by the random number generation of monsters or anything. You can only get most of the real units from the random summoning feature, which annoys me since I’d rather have a game where I could find those kind of things naturally, but they give out a lot of free special currency and it takes a long ass time to get your units to maximum strength so I don’t mind it to much.

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Puzzle & Dragons/Mario crossover coming to the 3DS

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Kyle700, Brave Frontier probably hasn’t come up here because it’s yet another auto-battle game with very little real gameplay beyond team-building, which as you mention is random and IAP-based enough to turn away most players here.

As for Mario P&D, I’m quite interested, but kind of annoyed that we’ll probably get it before Puzzle & Dragons Z.

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I am playing Summoner Wars and is quite good.

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I’ve tried most of the other match 3 games. PaD was one of the first and sucked me in, it’s difficult as having time for more than 1 is not likely and many of them are very similar in many ways.

Marvel Puzzle Quest has me also but it feels different.

I am trying soccer spirits which isn’t bad but as a brit anything with soccer in it probably works.

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thats definitely true, but it is probably the best auto battler esc game available and while I normally despise these sorts of games, I’ve been pretty hooked since I started. I guess I haven’t really thought about it since I love the fact that it is less mindless than pad.
And besides, puzzles and dragons is just as iap focused as any of these games if not more haha.

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I have to totally disagree, I have been playing for nearly 600 days and on iap twice the second last week when I got an itunes card while on holiday in the USA. I am rank 213, they give 10 stones away every 2 weeks, more than enough to increase your inventory and then have plenty of rolls throughout the year. Once you do a few descends etc you improve quite a bit and have no issue doing most of the content.

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I’m rank 236 and have spent zero dollars on the game. (Unless you count importing the Japan-only deckbuilding game. I’ll also probably end up throwing money at the upcoming trading card game, because it’s got a bunch of really cool new art, and will definitely buy the 3DS games. No IAP, though.)

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I was merely responding the comment that Brave Frontier was IAP-based enough to turn away a lot of players here. It’s no more IAP based than puzzles and dragons since it is essentially the same game with an auto battler haha.

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But there are plenty of games out there that do require IAP, I am playing Marvel Puzzle quest and the only way to have enough inventory space is to spend some cash to increase it.

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I have 40 covers and haven’t spent a dime in Marvel Puzzle Quest. If you are in a Top 100 alliance during events, that also earns enough hero points to not spend money.

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So how do you get in a top 100 alliance then, not like it’s simple? or is it. For example a new character in PaD is 5 stones but 5 spaces is 1 stone I am already at 600 HP’s for 2 additional spaces yet have only managed to earn around 100HP’s. It certainly feels as the monetary side of MPQ is totally aimed at Inventory space and paying for it.

Her Points per slot chart here http://marvelpuzzlequest.wikia.com/wiki/Hero_Points#Buying_Roster_Slots

64,850 HP’s for 100 slots @ $100 for 20,000 HP’s = $320 just for 100 slots is not cheap.

But it does seem you can play without IAP but I found very quickly not having any Inv space meant I was throwing away rare covers which I may need later, I mean you start with like 6 spaces.

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It’s like joining a guild in any other game, ask them, =) When I was in a Top 100 alliance (got dropped due to my schedule), I regularly got about 200 hero points per event.

Oh, the game is definitely aimed towards grinding and getting money out of players, probably more so than PAD. I was just countering your absolutist “the only way to have enough inventory space is to spend some cash to increase it” with data of people (including myself) who can have a good roster of cards without spending any actual money.

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Man, the monitization schemes in PAD are so much better than MPQ, it’s night and day. I’ve had multiple $23 IAP buys in PAD and while I might not always gotten what I wanted, I at least got something I could use. Whereas MPQ is just plain exorbitant in their IAP. $20 wouldn’t even buy me 1/13 of a character there, and you have to win 1st place in an event or beat the .4% odds from a token in order to even have the privilege of paying that much to them.

And talking about slots. In PAD you get 5 slots for a dollar, whereas in MPQ before I quit, I was edging up on $10. for a single slot.

In summary: FFFFFFF MPQ

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Reports are coming in that Puzzle & Dragons Z and Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition will be released in the US this May, as a bundle. Between that and Splatoon, Nintendo will be taking all of my dollars that month.

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One recent change PaD has made that I am really enjoying is the change to Pengdras and to evolve them you now only need seeds or dragon plant and no need for metal Dragons makes Thursdays and Mondays a real easy way to level up your creatures.

As a slow leveler I have actually managed to max a few and increase all my overall levels without too much hassle chasing the daily metal dungeons. However there does need to be a use for metal dragons now as they are really a waste of time.

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I’ve been leveling up assorted monsters in the course of farming the Legendary Dragon dungeons for skill-ups for the late-bloomer dragons. I already have one max-skilled Ifrit, and am working on a second Ifrit, a Tiamat, and a Leviathan. (These monsters require twenty-two skill-ups each. It’s a grind, to be sure.) I’ve also tried working on skilling my ult-evo Hadar, which gets me quite a bit of XP for other dark monsters and potential Tiamat skill-ups at the same time, but Hadar seems to be allergic to skill-ups, and hasn’t gotten a single one yet.

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Huh, I thought my skill level 15 Ifrit was impressive. I do have a maxed Hadar, though.

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Cross-posting from the bargain thread:

Amazon has Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition (3DS) preorders for $30 right now. The pack is out in May, and being a Nintendo-published release, it’s incredibly unlikely to get price drops during its lifetime, so $10 below MSRP might be the cheapest option for the games for a long time.

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Score! Thanks!