I really love Marvel Puzzle Quest’s core Match 3 gameplay, and the character balance has much improved from the days when Magneto (Classic) could kill a whole team in one turn. However, there’s a problem - I find very little sense of progress or achievement when I play it. All you get for your time is the ability to maybe strengthen your team - and then face correspondingly higher level opponents in PvP mode. If you finish first in something, there’s no permanent reminder of your achievement. There’s also no incremental progress, like there is in games with substantial story modes, aside from the completely trivial Shield Rank. Once you finish the Prologue, which is geared toward new players, all that’s left is the endless grind of Versus events and temporary “Story” events that leave nothing significant behind to mark their passing.
Aside from a vastly expanded single player mode in which rewards don’t depend at all on the performance of other players (almost all “PvE” events are just another kind of competition with other players), I wish there were some kind of achievement or trophy system, one that tracks your highest finishes and best scores in the different events you’ve entered - for example, your top result in a “The Hunt” event or a Loki Lightning Round. It would make playing the game seem a lot less pointless…
