The different types of gems may have different shapes, but for me it's hard to see any difference between a brown hexagonal gem and a green octagonal gem. For starters it's not exactly that colour blind friendly. Other minor criticisms include a lack of options to make things a little more customisable. It's a bit of a surprise then that the announcer's voice is a deep bellowing male, as opposed to something soothing and easy on the ear. Couple all this with the Endless mode and you have a tranquil and charming game, which has calmed me down after a stressful day on endless occasions, if you can excuse the pun. The audio is very respectable, with a superb range of gentle and captivating music, with good sound effects complimenting this. The graphics are glittery, concise if somewhat basic, but it all has a nice enough feel to it. The former is a timed detonation, destroying gems in the vicinity, while the latter is a nuisance block which can only be removed by an explosion. "Bombs" and "Rocks" are found solely in puzzle mode. "Hyper cubes", formed by matching five gems in a row, can be used to eliminate all gems of the same type on screen. "Power" gems are formed by matching four in a row, which when matched up explode, smashing nearby gems and bringing in a gathering of points. The game also features four different types of gems to keep things spicy. There are also several other "Secret" modes to unlock, but since they are defined as being secret, I shall leave them as a surprise. This in my opinion is by far the best element of the game, since you can sit back at your own leisure and enjoy the pleasures of what this game has to offer. The final mode you are given is "Endless", which is a never ending game with no final score or timer, and no risk of running out of moves.
"Puzzle" mode is a real brain teaser, in which the aim is to complete a preset block of gems, with a mounting difficulty of creativity required to eliminate all gems. The other modes include "Action", which is essentially the same as the Classic mode, but with the points you score contributing to a timer which slowly winds down to zero, thus making things a tad more tense. I hate to think of the frustration on reaching the last level just to have to start over. A simple fix would have been to have a checkpoint system, so you can at least restart the current level instead of having to start from scratch. Several times I reached just beyond the third level just to fail, resulting in a complete loss of motivation to even try again. The announcer kindly told me the fact I had "no more moves", with the consequences being you have to the do the whole process all over again. This I enjoyed until several levels down the line, when I ran out of possible moves to make.
The first being "Classic", where the goal is to simply reach a set score on increasing difficulty levels. There are the numerous game modes to try which helps keep things varied and interesting. During this process, a combination of new chains may form either by chance or through careful planning, which will gain you a lovely set of bonus points and a satisfying "excellent" from the announcer. When such a chain is created, the gems vanish causing everything above to fall down, with new gems being dropped to fill the gaps. The purpose being that you line up three or more of the same type of gem. The gameplay involves you simply swapping one "gem" (aka jewel) with a neighbouring one.
I was greeted with gentle, motivating music, calm views of snow capped mountains, and a soft, somewhat cute menu.įor those not familiar with the premise of Bejeweled, let me enlighten you. The initial annoyance was soon reversed once I realised what a relaxing game this can be. As soon as the installer decided to spoil my neatly organised disk drive by automatically installing to the program files folder, I was rather irritated. I acknowledge I got off to a really bad start with this game. That was nearly seven years ago, and since then there has been numerous variants of the "match 3" concept, including its sequel, the cunningly named Bejeweled 2. The first in what has now become a highly successful "casual" range by PopCap, Bejeweled is a straightforward puzzle game. Reviews // 26th Oct 2008 - 15 years ago // By POBmaestro Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
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