A post unrelated to my trip today, but one ten years in the making. Today marked my 3650th day of cumulative logins to Puzzle & Dragons!
Ten years ago today, during a trip to Japan, I installed the game. And I’ve played every single day since then. Since I play for an hour at least every day, this means I’ve been playing Puzzle & Dragons for about 150 days!
I’ve got 2835 cards now, including every single top-tier leader and multiple copies of most everything else. I have so resources used to power up cards I will never use them all, and I’ve beaten every single dungeon in the game, including the very difficult super-endgame stuff.
The game has become extremely complex over the years. The above shows all the possible ‘awakenings’ a card can have, and making teams to beat the tough dungeons require a complete understanding of all of them.
The above is the most recent rare card added to the game (only a few days ago). I managed to get him, but haven’t yet built a team for him. In time I will. In a few months he will no doubt be superseded by a new more powerful leader, but one of the strengths of the game is that few cards ever truly become obsolete.
The game has had a massive amount of ‘collaborations’ over the years. Naturally my favourite was Ultraman and I was able to get every character. Above you may see a few cards from various other collaborations you might recognize.
I still play the game daily, still enjoy it, and still look forward to new content. I do however feel that while the game has done an extraordinary job of updating often enough to keep popular for a decade, that it has started to decline. I don’t know how much longer it will last, but I don’t doubt I’ll be playing until the day they close the servers 🙂