‘Puzzle & Dragons Z’ review: puzzling at first, addictive soon after

I’ve never been a Candy Crush fan in any guise. In fact, Tetris for me was always horrifically boring. Gasp and gawk all you want because puzzle games are generally two-dimensional snore fests for those too afraid of commitment. Of course, that’s generalisation to the umpteenth degree because GungHo Entertainment’s new take on Puzzle & Dragons Z is a bit more up my alley.

You start life as a prospective Dragon Tamer, essentially what the Pokemon Trailer is to Dracomancia — the world you find yourself in. All seems well, until the evil Paradox group, rather inconveniently, decides to destroy the world piece-by-piece (quite literally) about ten minutes after you earn your Tamer badge. It’s now up to you, for some reason, and a mysterious new dragon called Syrup to defeat the Paradox goons and piece the world back together again.

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