I'm pretty sure I'm playing the game pretty incorrectly most of the time. I buy nothing with real money, I rarely use health packs, I immediately maxed-out three one-star covers (Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Juggernaut) and traded every other cover I got in exchange for Iso-8, which I then traded for tokens in hopes of getting three-star covers so that I could skip the mostly-lame two-star covers because slots are limited and I earned a couple of three- and four-star covers very early on and I didn't want to waste them and shutup okay!? While it took a while, I've now championed my favourite three-star covers, dumped a bunch of four-star covers because I don't like them, and have a handful of five-star covers that're actually useful. Also, I beat a level 222 Punisher MAX with a level 106 Howard the Duck in the latest Deadpool Daily - Crash of the Titans event because fuck yeah, I did!
Current three-star champions: Black Widow, Cyclops, Daredevil, Deadpool, Doctor Doom, Doctor Strange, The Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Mystique, Thanos, and Wolverine... And I'm two covers away from championing Iron Man.
Current four-star covers I'm building-up: Well, there're 33 of 'em, so let's stick to my favourites...
- Hulkbuster, Miles Morales, Moon Knight, Spider-Gwen, and X-23 because they're just badass.
- The X-Force guys - Wolverine and Deadpool - because of their team-up effect; it's kinda like the four-star Power Man and Iron Fist, but without the lingering taste of the latter's shitty Netflix series.
- War Machine because he fucks with those goddamned invisibility tiles.
- All the rad 'n powerful covers like Nick Fury, Punisher MAX, Red Hulk, etc...
- It's the game-breaking covers that I like best though; three-star Deadpool and Doctor Strange kinda fit into this category as well, but I'm really talking about covers like Captain Marvel, Carnage, Ghost Rider, and Gwenpool. Those four are great examples of how to shake things up and change the game. Captain Marvel eliminates how long I have to wait to kick your ass, Carnage literally takes over the board and creates carnage, Ghost Rider throws your damage right back at you, and Gwenpool lets me wipe-out whichever tiles I choose! These covers encourage us to develop all-new strategies, and I just think that's neat :)
Current five-star covers: Logan (one of each; already super-powerful), Black Bolt (one yellow; pretty useful), Black Panther (one yellow, pretty useful), Phoenix (one green; pretty useful), Silver Surfer (one blue; really only useful as a tank), and Captain America (one blue, so pretty meh).
Now, I didn't like this game at first, and I've said as much on this blog... I loved the first Puzzle Quest, enjoyed the sequel, didn't get into Galactrix, just discovered the first game's expansion while researching for this post(!), initially had more fun with Adventure Time Puzzle Quest than Marvel Puzzle Quest (that was silly of me), and haven't touched Puzzle Quest - Magic: The Gathering... Or the card-based Magic: The Gathering, for that matter. Basically, I played the first game on PSP (AND ONLY FOUND-OUT ABOUT ITS EXPANSION NOW!?), the sequel on my phone, and then everything else just felt disappointing... For years... And that was probably largely due to what I was saying up top about how I was playing Marvel Puzzle Quest all wrong. Well, I'm glad I stuck it out because this shit is for real, and I still really only play on the subway, and yeah, I think this is the longest I've ever stuck with any game. Look, I know this post fell-apart around the midpoint and maybe I'll come back to it but for now I'm gonna go make lasagna and then eat that lasagna because I took the day off work and slept-in and so it's lunch time for me now even though it's 3:30pm here.
