Comments on: Bookworm Adventures 2 Released, EG Review

By: Stony

Stony — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:01:06 +0000

@Taillefer

Yeah, but then you end up chipping their health bar down a few deci-hearts at a time, and can accidentally defeat them before you’ve finished your wordbeast. I did get unlucky that time though, and ended up going through 6 or 7 small words without getting the final letter I needed. Plus, I was facing an unarmed goat.

By: Taillefer

Taillefer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:47:55 +0000

“That’s one of the few annoying things about the game actually, that you can’t just save up letters forever to build monstrously long words.”

Well, you can, sort of. Just spell a smaller word out of the letters not in your bigger word, and hope they’re replaced with what you need. I usually save my gems up that way and slaughter the boss with them all.

By: Vasara

Vasara — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:20:03 +0000

I can confirm that it does indeed support both the British and American spellings. I tried it just now with the word ‘armo(u)rer’, and both spellings were considered valid by the game.

I think the game is great whether you’re a native anglophone or not. My native language isn’t English and I’m really enjoying the game (and expanding my vocabulary at the same time). It helps if you know some longer words, but you can cope with fairly basic vocabulary if you manage your gems, items and potions well. I reckon the game scales pretty well in that respect – if you get killed a lot you get a chance to win more potions and gems to help you onwards, while those more proficient at English can get by using nothing but their expansive vocabulary.

By: Recomposer

Recomposer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:15:42 +0000

@Vinraith

“In the original, at least, I believe it took both spellings. In general it uses a pretty generous dictionary.”

Thats good to know, could be worth buying it then. Thanks.

By: Skalpadda

Skalpadda — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:39:54 +0000

I really liked the first one as well, the feedback you get from long streaks of doing well is pretty amazing. It may be silly but it makes you feel good.

For those whose native tongue isn’t English, I wouldn’t worry too much. If you’re OK with reading and writing in English on the internet you’ll probably be able to make it through since the game doesn’t require you to use specific words you may not know. I actually had fun misspelling words and then looking them up to see where I went wrong as well, but maybe I’m just weird. ;)

By: Jambe

Jambe — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:14:47 +0000

What Lars Westergren said.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:50:42 +0000

Hey, if anyone’s got an iPhone/iPod Touch then the original Bookworm is only 59p until 5th August.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=307176281&mt=8

By: VelvetFistIronGlove

VelvetFistIronGlove — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:28:47 +0000

@Chiablo Those careless Americans, dropping letters all over the shop. Diarrhoea has an “O”!

By: Stony

Stony — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:10:39 +0000

I nearly, so nearly, spelled “assassination” in one round on the first game, which would have absolutely slaughtered the small goat I was facing. I was one “s” short, and accidentally finished it off with a feeble three letter word instead. That’s one of the few annoying things about the game actually, that you can’t just save up letters forever to build monstrously long words.

By: Flappybat

Flappybat — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:08:40 +0000

I love buying my games around midnight, I’m glad they cater to this market.

Is it me or is that bear in the image wearing a nappy?

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:11:29 +0000

@Flappybat

Yeah, release got bounced to midnight PST tonight and the release date was changed to the 31st. Weird.

By: Flappybat

Flappybat — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:09:45 +0000

Confusingly this has appeared and disappeared from the Steam new releases list and has changed from releasing in five hours to in eleven hours.