These consist of positive thinking, prosperity, quitting bad habits, self confidence, or weight loss. (Even more creepy was my switching it off after the game took a breath in, and worrying that I might kill it.) It even has the noise of someone else's breathing by which to time yourself, but this only gives the effect that you’re being permanently called by a heavy breathing pervert, and is pretty sinister. Which is nice enough, although personally the moment I start being conscious about my breathing I only get incredibly stressed that I’ll forget to and drop down dead. Then it helps you to modulate your breathing. So you can put rainforest sounds in the background. It’s basically a lot of fluff to justify a more relaxed version of the game.
(Please bear in mind this article is entitled “Wot I Think – skip ahead six paragraphs if you don’t want to read my laughing at this rubbish.) It’s as if they’d hired Uri Geller, Paul McKenna and “Dr” Gillian McKeith (if you are what you eat, she must have eaten an awful lot of idiot) to create them a game mode. It’s particularly engaging.Īnd then, well then there’s Zen mode. But special mention to the splendid Poker mode, which sort of combines basic poker rules with Yahtzee, letting you create five-card hands based on which gems you clear, trying to get those worth the most points.
You’ve also got some sub-modes, which unlock as you play, and you can find them for yourself. Complete all 40 challenges and you get an achievement, and a gold wreath around the menu option. But absolutely nothing of that nature is in there. This could have been a fun chance to put in a mini Puzzle Quest – something PopCap has yet to try. There’s five sections, each with eight games. Quest mode puts together a bunch of minigames based on the theme, with particular challenges to complete. Once your time is up their total will be added as bonus time, and this repeats as often as you’re able to gather new seconds. However, there’s a twist – you can collect gems that offer bonus seconds. There’s Lightning, which gives you one minute to get as high a score as possible. You’ve got Classic, which offers you the main game, letting you progress through levels, aiming for a high score. If you're good, you can now play a lot better than someone who's less so. Finally Bejeweled can be played at pace, and it’s a small change that significantly ups the fun of playing. What’s always upset me about Bejeweled before is where it fell short of what I’d argue is the best match-3 ever, Zoo Keeper: it wouldn’t let you make another line of gems until it had finished faffing around with animations and dropping in new gems elsewhere on the board. (Okay, I admit I went back and played a bit more to get those correct.) Then do something slightly more complicated involving two lines at once and you’ll get gems that’ll take out their row and column entirely. Connect a row of five and you’ll get a gem that takes out all of a particular colour. Connect a row of four and you’ll create a gem that explodes when removed, removing a few from around it. Then of course there’s all the various bonuses – although PopCap have been very restrained in their numbers. (A clue about this game: loading it up to remind myself of the dimensions, I’m now fighting the urge to play some more.) By swapping with adjacent gems you align rows or columns of three or more, causing them to disappear, with new gems falling from above to fill in the space. So once more you have an 8x8 grid of coloured jewels. You can take your next turn before the last has finished. So has dragging gems into same-coloured lines changed dramatically enough to warrant yet another game? Here's Wot I Think.Īside from the new modes of play, the array of new minigames, and the utterly bonkers woo-nonsense of Zen mode, there is one tweak that completely revolutionises Bejeweled, changing it from casual game of the lunchtime bored to something bordering on an arcade game. The great-granddaddy of this ill-named puzzle favourite is Bejeweled, and PopCap have just released its third (well, nine hundred and seventeenth) incarnation, simply called Bejeweled 3. I would like to see the genre renamed please.
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