CarrionCrow: Sorcerer in Puzzle Quest 2. What I'll now be playing for roughly 60 hours.
No mentioning Puzzle Quest! My amazing time in Puzzle Quest 1 (on console) almost made me cave and buy Huniepop - which looked a lot like PQ to be honest. I felt far too dirty to do it though.
I'm not a casual / Bejeweled sort of player, and I mentioned it a few days ago but when I originally heard about Puzzle Quest I thought the concept of it was the most stupid thing I had ever heard... then I played the demo on my Xbox. Immediately bought it.
I can't believe it occurred to someone to combine those genres in that way and how perfect the execution was. Even the "extra" stuff (kingdom building, monster trapping) didn't need to be added in, but they really went to 11 with the content, and it all worked and all made the game tons of deep. Such an "out of the box" sort of game that was a total surprise for me.
*edit to add And 60 hours huh? I had NO idea the games were that long! Clearly I never finished my playthrough but I never would have guessed! Is the first that large a game as well?
*edit again to add:
AgentBirdnest: *Suddenly imagining a right fielder carelessly using their phone/tablet while playing, only to have a random ball smash it to pieces from out of the blue* :-)
LOL yup that's what I was going for - I didn't think I was clear about it but glad it came through okay!