The game does get harder over time, bosses have more health and are stronger. This curve of difficulty is very well paced and makes the game feel very rewarding. As you progress, you are also able to beat bosses and retrieve unique items that give you certain bonuses when specific letters are in play. In gives a lot more depth to a game you would think does not need it.
The art style here is really simple but loveable. Lex is cute and the enemies are all well designed. The user interface is easy to follow and everything has a delightful, smart sheen to it that really shows the large production budget went to good use. Maybe It Was due to that time during the incunabulum of my existence, when a rapscallion upturned a Scrabble board and my neonate form was showered with word fragments like some perverted sort of plastic precipitation, but I've always had a fascination with lettered tiles tumbling down the screen just begging to be herded into lovely locutions.
Bookworm Deluxe is a logophilic's dream from Pop Cap, available on Steam. Trace a line of adjacent letters along a grid to form as an extensive a word as possible, see the letters disappear from the play area, and watch new uncial monograms fall in to replace them.
Avoid small words, as this coaxes burning letters into the playing field. In the Adventure mode, the player solves the mystery of the Great Library, fighting the opponents in order.
Unlike the sequel, after the player completes the Adventure mode, they cannot replay the Adventure mode and must create a new player to restart. In Mini-games, players can play three different mini-games and aim for high score.
This mode is unlocked after Book 2 in the Adventure mode is completed. In the Adventure mode, sometimes a purple tent appears; the player can play a pre-selected mini-game for rewards that can aid them in their adventure. The Arena mode is unlocked after completing the Adventure mode defeating Book 3.
Here, players can battle through all the bosses in a fast-paced action instead of the Adventure mode's turn-based gameplay except for certain bosses Hydra, Sphinx, Professor Codex. There is also an addition of a timer bar above the grid; if it's filled, the enemy will attack whether the player is ready or not. At the opposite side, the player can do several attacks in-between the enemy's attacks by spelling words quickly. In the sequel, there are a few additions and differences.
The Adventure mode now has Books , following the numbering of the prequel. The Mini-games mode is unlocked by completing Book 5, and players may choose the mini-game they want to play when there is a tent icon in the Adventure mode as opposed to being forced for a certain game like the prequel.
The Arena mode, which is still unlocked by completing the Adventure mode defeating Book 6 , only contains the bosses in the sequel, and excludes Previous Lex, Skeletrox Dance Commander , and the three phases of The Machine.
In the sequel, a new mode called Adventure Replay is unlocked after completing the Adventure mode defeating Book 6. Unlike the prequel, a player may replay their adventure after it is completed. The player can choose any of the three books to play through; Lex is leveled down equivalently to what he should be at the chapter, and the player must keep Lex alive or otherwise having the game over.
Instead of the level up bar at the top-left, the player can find the score bar; Lex levels up after every chapter. There are eight badges of four levels Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum , which require the player to do some certain task; for example, defeating an enemy with Poison damage, spelling a letter word, or using Diamond gems frequently. Tome of Knowledge is available in both games, where it contains all information of the enemies, their attacks and abilities, their flavor text, and secrets that the player has found.
This feature is unlocked after defeating Book 1 in the original or Book 4 in the sequel. Clips and Giggles is where the comic introductions to each book and theme music of Bookworm Adventures can be found and replayed any time the player wishes.
It also features commentary from PopCap Games on creating the game. Players unlock Clips and Giggles by defeating the Arena mode. It is not available in the sequel.
Bookworm Adventures for PC. Letter tiles usually appear in the grid as unremarkable, standard tiles containing one or in the case of the 'Qu' tile two letters. However, tiles of different types, with either positive or negative attributes, can appear during play.
Longer words are worth more points and have a greater chance of producing bonuses. In addition to standard letters, tiles of various colors can appear depending both on the current level within the game and on the length of words being formed.
The tile colors are as follows:. The game has two modes. If the player clicks on game mascot Lex, found off to the side of the play area, all of the tiles will be scrambled; however, this will produce a rush of red tiles. Additional points are given for bonus words displayed in the game; additional bonus words formed during a single game produce increasing bonus values. In some versions one can also collect and complete «books» which are groups of words in a similar category. The Arena mode, which is still unlocked by completing the Adventure mode defeating Book 6 , only contains the bosses in the sequel, and excludes Previous Lex, Skeletrox Dance Commander , and the three phases of The Machine.
In the sequel, a new mode called Adventure Replay is unlocked after completing the Adventure mode defeating Book 6. Unlike the prequel, a player may replay their adventure after it is completed. The player can choose any of the three books to play through; Lex is leveled down equivalently to what he should be at the chapter, and the player must keep Lex alive or otherwise having the game over. Instead of the level up bar at the top-left, the player can find the score bar; Lex levels up after every chapter.
There are eight badges of four levels Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum , which require the player to do some certain task; for example, defeating an enemy with Poison damage, spelling a letter word, or using Diamond gems frequently. Tome of Knowledge is available in both games, where it contains all information of the enemies, their attacks and abilities, their flavor text, and secrets that the player has found. This feature is unlocked after defeating Book 1 in the original or Book 4 in the sequel.
Clips and Giggles is where the comic introductions to each book and theme music of Bookworm Adventures can be found and replayed any time the player wishes.
It also features commentary from PopCap Games on creating the game. Players unlock Clips and Giggles by defeating the Arena mode.
It is not available in the sequel. Bookworm Adventures for PC. Letter tiles usually appear in the grid as unremarkable, standard tiles containing one or in the case of the 'Qu' tile two letters.
However, tiles of different types, with either positive or negative attributes, can appear during play. These attributes then impact the game when the tile is used to form a word. Such attributes include:. Acts as a wildcard can replace any letter ; can only have one in the grid. Cannot be stolen by Gem Steal. The «scramble» feature from the original title returns in Bookworm Adventures, allowing players to replace their current grid of letters with an entirely new set.
The cost of doing this is forfeiting a turn, so that the enemy gets a «free» attack. In addition to equipped items, players can also earn consumable potions, which can be used once each for an immediate benefit. Using these does not cost the player his or her turn, and hence the enemy does not get a free attack.
While potions can be acquired gradually by defeating foes, potions and, later in the game, gems can also be awarded for playing separate word-based mini-games between stages. In such mini-games, the player must try and guess a secret word using a Mastermind-like system , or must try and form as many words as possible from a set of letters. The more skillfully the player plays these mini-games, the greater the reward. In the sequel, the player can only have the maximum of 10 potions of each type.
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