Bookworm Adventures: Trial Play Review
Rarely does a game’s trial spike as much interest as Bookworm Adventures did for me. Even more ironically,
I’m not much of a fan for the regular Bookworm game. As in, I’d play it, but I wouldn’t pay $20 for the complete version. However, this hybrid RPG/Word game does wonders for the word game genre.
In it, you play Lex, the now-recognizable bookworm. The fact that he is horrendously over-sized (the worm equivalent to Godzilla, I would say), doesn’t matter too much because he isn’t exactly a gross-looking bookworm. He’s quite endearing, actually. Leave it to Popcap games to make an endearing bookworm.
Anyhow, you battle foes by putting together words in from the letters in the box underneath the action. Words with a higher point value deal more damage to your opponent. It’s a rather ingenious way to incorporate the word game and RPGs together. Okay, now I sound like I’m repeating myself.
In my 30 minute taste of Bookworm Adventures, I managed to acquire three different power-ups. In normal gameplay, the power-ups will probably allow Lex to do more damage, heal himself, or protect himself. You seem to be only to hold three at a time; you acquire them by defeating the boss at the end of each level.
So far, I’ve had no quibbles with this game and actually quite enjoyed it. The concept is original and it is pulled off superbly. Even those with a phobia of their English teachers will love it. If I wasn’t being so stingy with my money this semester, I definitely would have paid for the game.
Posted on January 20, 2007 Under Not Free, Video Games, Downloads, Extremely Happy Rating | |
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I want to play this game super bad but there’s no Mac port. What’s the deal with that? Mac users love words!
Well, I love words, anyway.
Maybe they’ll make a Mac port eventually. You know, if a lot of people buy it? I don’t know.
This was pretty fun. An awesome concept, but it just left me wanting more to it. I would have liked to see more strategy elements (like spelling certain words for elemntal attacks, like ‘ice’ or ‘cold’) I got bored with it after a while. Aside from that though, great game.
Travis — That actually would be pretty cool if you were battling some kind of fire creature… and then throw around the word “water” to add more damage to the attack.