It makes the game great for playing in bursts, but if feeling burnt out and looking to get some variety, you're out of luck. There is one and only mode the main game. That being said, the game does what it does well, but there is some room for criticism. This is a puzzle game, and it does that job extremely well. A story driven epic should have its writing put under much more scrutiny than an arcade light gun game. I believe a game's ratings should reflect what the game is trying to do. Similar to Picross, I'm not sure how to rate a game with such singular purpose. It's simple, addictive, and easy to put down and come back to. If they reach the bottom, it's game over. They appear with more frequency as the game goes on and each turn (word made) they burn the tile below them. The risk of your game ending comes in the form of burning tiles. Longer words are worth more points, and making them rewards you with bonus green, gold, and diamond tiles which are worth even more points. Once a word is formed, those tiles are gobbled up by the titular Bookworm, and tiles fall to fill the gaps. Your goal is to make words by linking touching letter tiles together. The game consists of a board filled with letter tiles. Three “mini-games” give players additional word puzzles to solve, with their level of success determining the number and strength of extra potions and power-up tiles they’ll take with them as they advance from one “chapter” of the game to the next.Bookworm is a puzzle game from the glory days of PopCap Games. Various potions and treasures provide Lex with added power, defense and dozens of other automatic and one-time abilities to help him defeat the legions of bad guys standing between him and the safety of his beloved Cassandra and the safety of The Great Library. Making longer and more complex words gives Lex greater fighting prowess and generates special letter tiles with special power-up effects of their own. From Dracula, the Wolf-man and other famous monsters to legendary Greek, Egyptian and Arabian tales, Lex explores many great works of fiction and takes on scores of enemies, all with their own unique characteristics and powers. In the new sequel, players fully take on the role of Lex the bookworm – leading him through a series of well-known books and fictional characters which Lex must overcome by forming words from an ever-changing set of letter tiles. The original Bookworm, introduced in 2002, garnered numerous accolades and has become the best-selling digital word puzzle game of all time, available for Web, PC, Mac, Gameboy, even in-flight on leading airlines. Possibly due to an oversight, the DSiWare version of the original Bookworm remains available in North America as of September 2021. Some online gaming portals like SolitaireParadise claim to offer Bookworm but several others that we checked wouldn’t actually load the game. Physical versions of all three titles are available for PC while the original Bookworm is available for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. As late as September of 2017 PopCap’s trademark page continued to display all four Bookworm titles and EA’s international trademarks on Bookworm remain active through 2025. No further explanation has been given on why the games were removed although their delisting from EA’s own Origin and POGO services implies that an expired license of some sort is the cause. In interactions that included Bookworm in interviews and on Twitter they would mention other PopCap franchises by name (Plants vs Zombies, Peggle, etc) while glancing over Bookworm. They were last confirmed available on March 9th at, on March 26th at Origin, on April 6th at Steam and May 31st on Big Fish Games.Īfter the release and demise of the last Bookworm title - Bookworm Heroes for iOS, released in April of 2013 and shut down December 1st, 2014 - PopCap Games, Electronic Arts and even Bookworm’s key creators (now independent) fell silent on the franchise. Bookworm Deluxe, Bookworm Adventures Deluxe and Bookworm Adventures: Volume 2 were delisted from numerous online platforms between April and May of 2016.
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