Puzzle Quest creator discusses Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns’ new features, talks about the potential for other remasters

The original Puzzle Quest is getting a fresh coat of paint before it hits Switch as Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns. The goal of this version of the game is to revamp the original DS experience for Switch owners, but is there anything new in there?

Puzzle Quest creator Steve Fawkner talked to Nintendo Life about some of the fresh features.

As mentioned previously, we have 2 expansions never seen before on Nintendo Switch – in fact the Attack of the Golem Lord expansion was written specifically for this release! There are some great new Hero Classes including the Blood Mage and the Paladin, lots of new Enemies and Quests, and a ton of powerful new Magic Items to collect.

As far as Switch features go, we concentrated on what we felt was the core of the Switch – seamless movement between touch screen and joy-con input, and local multiplayer support for when you just need to prove you’re better at smashing match-3 puzzles than your friends!

The Puzzle Quest series spawned all sorts of sequels and spin-offs. Is there any chance those could come over to the Switch? That all depends on how Puzzle Quest’s Switch version does, says Fawkner.

We’ll definitely be sitting here, with our fingers crossed, hoping that Puzzle Quest finds its audience again. And if it does, I think we’d relish the opportunity to bring some of our other titles up-to-date with a really strong remastering on Nintendo Switch, like we’ve done with Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns.