As the game progresses, its learning curve and difficulty level rises with subtlety. It can prove to be more frustrating for perfectionists, but the anguish of falling one consonant short of your extravagant winning move leads to the enticing promise of exacting revenge against the next storybook enemy to foolishly fall in to your path. Picking away at the 16-tile grid is an unassuming yet highly addictive challenge, one that will suit both younger minds and more advanced puzzle fans, and regardless of relative ability, the game will always give the right tools to succeed and also enough encouragement where it is needed. The RPG theme is accentuated with bonus items, party members and cleverly designed augmentations, adding immersion to a potentially benign experience. Words created from the randomly generated tile set do damage to the enemy, and the longer the word, the more health points are removed. Minds and advanced puzzle fans.Lex encounters several battle situations during each of the games three expansive volumes, set within a traditional, turn-based RPG layout. The simple execution of both the story and characters - light of depth, heavy of charm - allows the Scrabble-esque word game to excel within its somewhat conservative structure. Fter losing several hours to PopCap's latest release, I find myself struggling to find enough superlatives to relate just how good this game is - perhaps Bookworm Adventures Volume 2 has stretched my vocabulary muscles a little too hard.Ĭombining simple grid based wordplay with an RPG styled user interface, players take on the role of Lex the Bookworm as he tracks down literary absconders from his library.

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