Puzzle & Dragons Z + Super Mario Bros. Edition

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2013 video game

Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition
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Developer(s)	GungHo Online Entertainment
Publisher(s)	JP: GungHo Online Entertainment WW: Nintendo
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 JP: December 12, 2013 Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition JP: April 29, 2015 **Puzzle & Dragons Z + Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition** KOR: May 1, 2015 EU: May 8, 2015 AU: May 9, 2015 NA: May 22, 2015
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 was released in Japan on December 12, 2013, and Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition was released in Japan on April 29, 2015. The bundled game was released in May 2015 for North America, Europe, Australia and South Korea.

Development

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. 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.

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.

Plot

Puzzle & Dragons Z

In Puzzle & Dragons Z, the player takes the role of a prospective young Dragon Tamer in Zed City of the Dracomacia 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.

Reception

Aggregate score
Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	73/100

Review scores
Publication	Score
Destructoid	7.5/10
Game Informer	9/10
GameRevolution	7/10
GameSpot	7/10
GamesRadar+	3.5/5
IGN	7.9/10
Nintendo Life
Nintendo World Report	7/10

The game received mixed or average reviews according to the review aggregator Metacritic.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." PC Magazine's Jordan Minor also praised Puzzle & Dragons Super Mario Bros. Edition while disliking the companion character TAMADRA . 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.

As of July 30, 2014, the game had shipped over 1.5 million copies.

Notes

Japanese: パズドラZ, Hepburn: Pazudora Z
Japanese: パズル&ドラゴンズスーパーマリオブラザーズエディション, Hepburn: Pazuru & Doragonzu Sūpā Mario Burazāzu Edishon

References

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