Even according to the game's own count, I was correct. By my estimation, looking at my computer's clock, it was more like 32 minutes.
#BOOKWORM ADVENTURES DEMO FULL#
I'd been enjoying myself, but I didn't think I'd gone the full hour yet. Suddenly, and without warning, I was kicked out to the desktop. Even better, the killing blow sometimes came in the form of hilariously inappropriate words, like "taint." Truly, this was a game for me. With each lovingly crafted word, my little worm transformed into hammers, wrecking balls, and other instruments of death, as he lay waste to one folkloric foe after another. I started playing, and Bookworm Adventures seemed to be delivering. PopCap promised 60 minutes of gameplay, which, coincidentally, is exactly the same model that hooked me on Fairway Solitaire about a year and a half ago. That's what my dreams are like every night. You spell words in order to attack monsters. It certainly works like one in real life.Above: The scene of the crime, in grisly detail.īookworm Adventures 2 sounded right up my alley. While it’s understandable that the game doesn’t recognize curse words–it’s supposed to be kid friendly–there’s no excuse that I can’t use the word “whore” as a weapon. If you’re like me, you’ll fall in love with it the moment you successfully use the word “zoetrope” to kill a demon hound. Still, it is, at the very least, worth a download. I’m not even necessarily recommending you purchase it–despite how fun the game is, 30 bucks is a hell of an asking price for what essentially plays like a beefed-up flash game. I’ve been playing for about two hours and I haven’t finished the demo yet.
#BOOKWORM ADVENTURES DEMO FREE#
Popcap Games has a free demo, which sounds unimpressive, but it’s about a third of the full game. If you have enough letters to spell “gangs,” but a couple more letters will allow you to spell “gangrene” and get a bigger damage multiplier, do you save the G’s and the E’s for later, or do you use them now because your enemy is draining your health quicker than you expected? As ridiculous as this sounds in reference to a game whose protagonist is a giant, bespectacled worm, there is actually a degree of strategy here. While the previous statement is exaggeration, it’s not as big a one as you think: apart from finding ways to create big words out of a limited amount of letters, you have to juggle item usage, and you have to plan ahead. After beating certain bosses, you get powerups and items that reward you for using certain words (like the comic mentions, one such item gives you a bonus if you use metal-related vocabulary) or just give you stat bonuses. Essentially, you’re given a 4×4 grid of lettered tiles, and you have to make the longest words possible during a fight in order to deal the most damage.
There’s a weird, unexplainable satisfaction in forming a word like “superfluous”, hitting “attack,” and watching the sheer length of your word result in the total destruction of an undead sorceror.
If you care enough to click the little “view story” button, you’ll find out why it’s so badass.Īfter playing it for two hours, I can safely say that it’s more fun that you can comprehend with one hundred percent of your brain. While my vocabulary is not as extensive as Tycho’s (and I’m not as irritatingly ostentatious in sharing it with others), I still thought it might be fun to try out a game where you literally battle monsters by spelling out big-ass words. After reading a Penny Arcade that mentioned Bookworm Adventures, I became curious.
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