His interpretation of the word "Awesome" sounds like it's spoken by someone who would rather be telling you he's just eaten all your children and is moving on to your extended family. His regular chants of "Excellent", with their deep, apocalyptic rumble, could split skyscrapers in two. Then there's the Wendy Carlos Lite music, the Dr Who time-tunnel interstitials and that always-unsettling voice of encouragement, which seems to emanate from the man with the least encouraging voice in the world. If it were possible to trigger hallucinations by eating too much tofu, those hallucinations would probably look like this. Its pink and purple tones are filled with all the bizarre trappings players have come to expect, such as wonderfully kitsch fantasy artwork in the background (the floating castles and stone ponies suggest some of the design team spent the eighties locked in a branch of Athena before freaking out, pretty thoroughly, in a moonage daydream).
#Bejeweled 3 full screen update#
Bejeweled 3's cautious, but it isn't a lazy update by any means: it's much more inventive than you might have suspected. PopCap's latest keeps the central game the same as it ever was, and it's as terrifyingly effective as usual.īut built around that time-honoured jewel-matching mechanic is a web of bright new ideas, spun off into a range of chunky additional modes. Twist messed with the basics too much for the series' core audience so Bejeweled 3 represents something of a regrouping albeit an elegant one. For this team, however, used to selling bucketloads of games every few seconds, it seems to have been a mild disappointment. By anyone else's standards, the sales of the polished and rather clever Twist would probably have led to champagne celebrations amongst the cubicles. PopCap's tried tinkering with the magical formula before and been gently slapped around for it. And it would be easy to ignore the fact that the series' latest instalment offers a quiet range of clever variations that bring new life to the game.īuilding on Bejeweled is not an easy gig. Because of all that, it's easy to underplay how well it's put together. Offering criticism of a Bejeweled game is a bit like a medieval peasant giving you his opinions on the Bubonic plague PopCap's match-three classic is ready to chew through human society regardless of what people have to say about it.īejeweled's a force of nature.
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