WORDLAND - Let's Travel

[b]wordland: let's travel[/b] is pretty much the same as [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1599690]wordland[/url], [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1640760]wordland 2[/url] and [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1652650]wordland 3[/url], except it adds a theme, which it should've done after the first game. it's still a great word game/crossword/tetris hybrid. there are various shapes with letters on a grid and they have to be arranged to form all the words described on the bottom. this is where the [b]educational element[/b] comes in, [b]descriptions assume a bunch of geographical knowledge (or googling skills) from the player[/b]. no diagonals, only left to right or downward, but they don't all have to be connected to each other. in fact, the game accepts layouts that wouldn't fly in a real crossword (e.g. va-tic-anc is accepted even though the answer is vatican). [b]50 levels[/b] instead of the usual 100, unlocked one by one. the [b]3 difficulty levels[/b] control the amount of revealed letters (more on easy, only the first letter on normal, none on hard), but there's no indication of any of this in the game, so you ca…

Easy puzzle game with a nice concept and shaky execution. Could have been so much more but ended up being simply middle-of-the-road. Thumbs up only for an interesting idea of combining geographical trivia and “sort-of Tetris” (or maybe Tetris-like jigsaw puzzle) in one game. This was a nifty construct, and with proper care it could have been a lovely experience, as it stands – it all kind of stopped just short of that “lovely” line. What worked: - The initial idea of combining trivia and a puzzle game is brilliant. It’s an all-in-one relaxing gameplay where you get to ponder on the questions, and then ponder on how to put them together correctly – I really enjoyed that. Apparently, this is a geographical spin-off on the previous three installments (which I haven’t tried), but I like the idea of subject-specific trivia, so I can see lots of directions this game can expand in. - Gorgeous background images. They invite and entice and tempt to go on the new adventure, aka elicit an emotional response – which is what art is supposed to do. And these are no 8x8 paintings, just static 2D backgrounds in a small game, and yet… Let’s just say I came back from a kayaking trip recently an…

It's a very sweet game but it's way too easy and very US-centric. The normal/hard modes just add on extra letters, they don't change the questions. You get 50 levels and there's no option to turn off the automatic first letter fill-in. Not challenging geography. Would be good for a kid though, and the decorating your suitcase minigame is cute.

Good

It's not that bad, but it's also not that good either. The background picture is beautiful. But each of them is not even related to the puzzle itself. The puzzle offer no hint or skip. So if you're stuck, you're stuck. And it's cringe to just google for solutions, instead of just trying to solve it by myself with some help. Later in game, we have to solve two or more words that share letters at once (like scrabble). Sounds like a fun challenging idea. However, it's so annoying that the game don't allow us to move/rotate multiple letters at the same time (or even allow spelling backward). So good luck making the first word in horizontal, just to find out that the second word is only readable in horizontal too, so the first word must be rotated to vertical manually.

Very wonderful puzzle game. I really like the improvements made in these games.