Meet the Bad Guys of Puzzle Quest 2

We have a very limited dossier on some of the baddies of Puzzle Quest 2 that we’d like you to take a look at.  There are over 70 different enemies in the game, certainly more than you could shake a stick at.  (Side Note: In our experience, we’ve found that you can shake a stick at 15-20, tops.)

Today, we’ll spotlight four of the enemies that you’ll encounter in your epic quest to save a village by matching like-gem stones.  Keep in mind, these aren’t your Grandma’s “Those bad guys shut down our senior center” bad guys.  These are your typical “Please don’t tear me apart limb by limb” bad guys.

Dark Orcs

Level Range: 15 to 40

Special Attacks: Enrage, Pummel, Darkness

Strong, tough, and uncompromising warriors, Orcs have waged long wars against the people of Etheria.  The Dark Orc will use his Enrage Spell to create more red gems and then follow it with the pummel spell which does 1 point of damage for every red gem on the board.

The Dark Orc also has the staple spell “Darkness” which enables him to convert all red and yellow gems to purple.

Rakshasa

Level Range: 7 to 40

Special Attacks: Stealth, Freezing Strike, Darkness

He may look a bit like a certain Tiger from the cover of a certain cereal box, but he is the stuff of nightmares.  Rakshasa hunts children, stealing them from their beds in the dead of night.  You’ll first learn of this creature from Gess, a girl in the village who fears the “Cat Man”.  Rakshasa has a “freezing strike” spell that converts all blue mana tiles on the puzzle board to purple mana, and deals one point of damage for every tile converted. You can find Rakshasa hiding in a remote room in the first level of the dungeon, defeat him, and return to Gess to complete this side quest and put the girls’ fears to rest.

Cockatrice

Level Range: 5 to 30

Special Attacks: Bellowing Crow, Petrifying Gaze

If you’ve come to snuff the rooster, you’re only prepared for half the job against the Cockatrice –

One truly hideous hybrid between a rooster and a lizard. The Cockatrice delivers a standard claw attack and also has two fairly powerful magic attacks, Bellowing Crow and Petrifying Gaze.  The latter turn its opponents to stone (no doubt drawing its power from its own sheer ugliness) prohibiting them from moving for 4 turns.  Apparently, the Cockatrice does not taste like chicken, and did we mention this is one really ugly creature?  You have been warned.

Gelatinous Cube

Level Range: 6 – 31

Special Attacks: Slime, Engulf

Don’t let looks fool you this time as slow sometimes wins the race.  The Gelatinous Cube is mindless yet fearsome as it’s fully able to engulf an opponent with its acidic gelatinous forms.  It will make you look at mom’s jell-o in a whole different way after finishing this battle.