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By: Arathain

Arathain — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:22:10 +0000

“Might I add that Bookworm Adventures has one of the finest endings in gaming?”

I think it’s right up there with my other all-time favourite, the ending of Creatures 2 for the C64.

By: FaceOmeter

FaceOmeter — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:38:49 +0000

That’s not a tangent! It’s a triangle!

/coat

PS. Every day of peggle I play, I hate it more. Yet still I play?

By: The_B

The_B — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:52:51 +0000

I’m making myself comfortable on this fence here. The inverted fence that is, as I love both Peggle and Bookworm. It’s sharp and pointy, and I think there’s anti vandal paint on my backside…

By: MisterBritish

MisterBritish — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:32:29 +0000

Might I add that Bookworm Adventures has one of the finest endings in gaming?

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:16:58 +0000

Oh yeah: PEGGLE!

By: Rev. Stuart Campbell

Rev. Stuart Campbell — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:16:32 +0000

Of course you did. You’re a narcissistic prick!

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:03:10 +0000

Pete: Re: Pachinko. Problem with Zero Punctuation is that he’s very funny, but tends to hide some cheerily regressive opinions and a lack of knowledge behind the flash. BLESS.

And, yes, I did notice the NGJ gag.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:17:17 +0000

Warning: I got no sleep last night. You might have been able to tell that from the last post. I forgot to mention, did anyone else spot the nice little dig against NGJ right at the start?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:15:23 +0000

Hilarious. Really, truly, proper funny, not just ‘funny for a games/review article’ funny.
But, with one huge gaping hole in it. How can he not realise that it is like PACHINKO!, rather than pinball. its PACHINKO! Of course, I am only really aware of PACHINKO! because of a marvelous, insane Korean film in which at one point a character spent time running round a japanese market with a PACHINKO! machine on his back shouting PACHINKO! (just like that) and ended with the main protagonist, having beaten all the top martial artists in Japan, punching a charging bull in the head, thats PUNCHING A CHARGING BULL IN THE HEAD, which obviously makes it the best film ever and he may not have seen that, but still.

Oh, and obviously he’s wrong about Peggle. And I can’t stand BA purely because you are NOT ALLOWED TO TYPE your words, as if we are console playing proles. I wanted to like it. I too like Scrabble, mainly because I am nigh unbeatable by nearly everyone I know, so really I did, but why (oh why, oh why) can’t you type. your. damn. answers? Tschk.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:54:40 +0000

“Yup, mostly down to luck and trial and error.”

That’s how it feels at the start. By the time you hit the Challenges (and especially things like ‘score a million points’), skill largely takes over. There’s luck too, but there’s a surprising amount to it. Peggle EXTREME also doesn’t have any of the cool superpowers.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:53:18 +0000

“Firstly, the game isn’t about seeing the next monster, but able to technique of finding the longest words possible in the grid.”

I find that much more fun in regular Bookworm, myself. More letters, more freedom. And simply dealing with the burning blocks just feels better to me than the armoured fiends late in in BA. Without the monsters, the focus becomes much more on the words and the finding of same.

Of course, that’s just how I play it.