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If you want more, then you play a few minigames that may win you some bonus potions. Four or more letters to do damage, and frankly, if you stick to four letters, you’ll probably get very beat up and use lots of healing potions in the process.ĭeath is not excessively punishing.
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Yep, those simple words don’t work no more. By spelling longer words of five letters or more, you get bonus gemmed letter tiles that, when used, give -your- attacks special status effects, such as freezing the enemy for a turn, or adding poison, or debuffing the amount of damage the enemy does (very important!), in addition to buffing your total damage.Īdding to the increased sophistication is the special three-letter word immunity certain bosses sport. Later, enemies may even Infect certain tiles, and those can spread to adjacent tiles, encouraging the strategy of using them up as quickly as possible.Īnd then you get the Gem Tiles. You can choose to use them up quickly and cycle in new tiles, or just leave them be and work around them. Some monsters have the ability to destroy tiles for several turns, making them useless in terms of contributing damage. Though it doesn’t stop me from… see above. Helpfully, the game will tell you beforehand what special attacks the next chapter’s enemies are fond of using, so it does involve strategy, rather than boiling down to a trial-and-error guessing game.Īnd yes, there are Boss Battles at the end of every chapter.īefore long, the amount of hearts the enemies have is… staggering, to say the least. You’re limited to bringing only three treasures with you, so choose wisely for what you’ll face.
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(Really, we’re spelling words here, what is this talk about debuffs and status effects! That’s the RPG component at work…)
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Some equipment offers you partial or full protection from special attacks that the more advanced monsters do, such as stunning you for a turn or three while they get free attacks on you, or adding poison or debuffing your strength and so on. A Hammer of Hephaestus obtained in a much later chapter ramps up your damage, especially if you spell metal-related words, such as iron, bronze, melt, etc. The Bow of Zyx above gives bonus damage to words using the letters X, Y and Z. You win treasures that act as weapons and armor, each with their own altering mechanic. Or how ironically appropriate the word is. In the earlier chapters, your amusement may derive more from seeing what non-kid-like words the game’s dictionary will let you get away with. It starts off simple, and you can get away with making three or four letter words to swiftly beat up the initial opponents, who clock in at about 3-4 hearts. Given how fond I am of playing with vocabulary, this is a match made in heaven. You make words out of the letters on the grid given to you, and the longer your word, the more damage your excessive grandiloquence does to your opponent. (We can talk about Puzzle Quest (bejeweled+RPG) and Defenders Quest (tower defence+RPG) another time, cos I have those games too.) Yes, all game mechanics become more fun when we put an RPG wrapper around it. If you can get over the cartoony graphics and initial cheesiness, you’ll find that they hide a pretty exciting hybrid between an RPG and Boggle. In Bookworm Adventures Deluxe, you guide the main protagonist Lex the Bookworm on his epic quest to save the day and rescue the girl. This was the game that sat on my shoulder like a devilish imp, prompting me to finally pick up the entire Popcap bundle during a seasonal sale, despite already having played Plants Vs Zombies, the main popular anchor of a pack stuffed with a lot of other cheaper, cheesier, mainstream-y casual games.Īfter playing the demo, I just couldn’t get over how goddamn FUN it was.Īnd how much I wanted to keep playing until I completed the game.