Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition | |
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Developer(s) | GungHo Online Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | |
Director(s) | Puzzle & Dragons Z Takayuki Takahara Naoki Fukuda Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition Yoshimasa Yamada |
Producer(s) | Daisuke Yamamoto |
Composer(s) | Puzzle & Dragons Z Kenji Ito Yukio Nakajima Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition Keigo Ozaki Toshiko Tasaki |
Series |
Mario Puzzle & Dragons |
Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
Release | Puzzle & Dragons Z
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Genre(s) | Role-playing, puzzle |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition is a 2015 role-playing puzzle video game for Nintendo 3DS developed by GungHo Online Entertainment. It is a compilation of Puzzle & Dragons Z (2013) and Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition (2015) from the Puzzle & Dragons series for North America and Europe. Before the bundled game was announced, the first game Puzzle & Dragons Z [a] was released in Japan on December 12, 2013, and Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition [b] was released in Japan on April 29, 2015. [1] The bundled game was released in May 2015 for North America, Europe, Australia [2] and South Korea. [3]
On May 3, 2013, GungHo revealed a spin-off for the Nintendo 3DS named Puzzle & Dragons Z during the Puzzle & Dragons Fan Appreciation Festival 2013. The game was released in Japan on December 12, 2013. [4] Gameplay is identical to the mobile game, but it adds role-playing elements such as towns and non-player characters.
Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition for the Nintendo 3DS features characters from the Super Mario series in gameplay similar to that from Puzzle & Dragons Z, including an overworld and story. It was released on April 29, 2015, in Japan as a standalone title. [5]
The bundled game for North America, Europe, Australia, and South Korea was first announced on January 14, 2015 and was released on May 22, 2015. [6]
In Puzzle & Dragons Z, the player takes the role of a prospective young Dragon Tamer in Zed City of the Dracomacia [7] continent. The game begins on the day the player is to take an exam in order to become a Dragon Tamer; the player follows two of their friends — another prospective Dragon Tamer, Nick, and an established Dragon Tamer, Sara — to Zed City's Ranger HQ, where Dragon Tamers are issued commands and study monsters, and where the Dragon Tamer test is administered. The player, alongside Nick, receives a "D-Gear", an item which allows them to digitally store monsters, and afterwards is allowed to hatch Eggs containing their first three monsters.
Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | 73/100 [8] |
Publication | Score |
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Destructoid | 7.5/10 [11] |
Game Informer | 9/10 [10] |
GameRevolution | 7/10 [16] |
GameSpot | 7/10 [14] |
GamesRadar+ | 3.5/5 [15] |
IGN | 7.9/10 [9] |
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Nintendo World Report | 7/10 [13] |
The game received mixed or average reviews according to the review aggregator Metacritic. [8] IGN's Kallie Plagge awarded the game a score of 7.9 out of 10, stating "Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition is the shining star alongside the less successful Z." [9] PC Magazine's Jordan Minor also praised Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition while disliking the companion character TAMADRA [sic]. He states that "Whereas Super Mario Bros. Edition uses its RPG components to enrich a pick-up-and-play puzzle game, Z tries to be a full-blown RPG that happens to center around puzzles." He also states the artwork feels uninspired in Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition. [17]
As of July 30, 2014, the game had shipped over 1.5 million copies. [18]