Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

[Tairnyn]

This was finally released on XBLA. I loved me some Puzzle Quest and  enjoyed the demo so I'm going to grab it for a painful 1600 points. The 3D takes some getting used to, especially having to anticipate the direction gems will fall based on the movement of your swap. I like the better integration of the specialty puzzles via crafting and hacking and there's something oddly satisfying about the lasers firing across the screen when you match damage gems.

[Stephen Zepp]

Picked this up on XBLA, but pretty lost on character advancement--I can't find any strategy articles on what's really important--red/blue seems like an obvious choice, but I don't see any char respec options anywhere, and hate to pre-gimp characters in games like this.

Any tips, or at least "don't do this or you'll never finish" type points?

[Jerrith]

I did all blue, and was still able to finish fine. :)  I didn't go for "broken" combos of equipment either.  There are some combos which will let you get through battles much faster though.