myJaxonIf we don’t go crazy once in a while, we’ll all go crazy. - Hawkeye

Jesse kept hearing about this game for the Wii called Puzzle Quest from one of our friends and the library had it on their shelf this weekend, so we picked it up. At first, we really weren’t that crazy about it, but after playing it for pretty much most of the day, it’s growing on us. The game has a quest mode as well as a “instant battle” option. I think Jesse started a quest, but I couldn’t tell you what it is. We’re enjoying the actually battles to care about the quests right now. The battle mode is what would happen if Puzzle Fighter and Bejeweled had a love child. There are also different spells you can use to give yourself more of an edge, but you have to earn enough mana in order to use them.

Overall, it’s fun to play and perfect when having a small child run around. Ian has been able to sit in our laps, while we play, and not effect whether we die or not. You can have the puzzles be timed, but if you’re worried about a tiny body standing in front of the TV, you can also have the timers turned off. This is actually kind of good.

I just noticed Jesse is playing in quest mode and it kind of reminds me of some of the older Final Fantasy map boards. Although this does remind me of one small grievance I have with the game…the font is TINY. Jesse says it’s mainly our TV and if we had an HDTV, then it would be different, but I don’t believe it. The font is so tiny, you could be sitting right next to the TV and still not be able to read it. On ours, it is a little blurry, so maybe it is readable, but it’s still really tiny for me. I wear glasses after all.

One more awesome thing…it’s only $20 on Amazon. Most Wii games start out around $50, so it’s not that bad of a deal.