I’m bananas for hand-drawn and animated graphics in video games, significantly ones that function a bunch of foolish or bizarre characters and a really “selfmade artwork venture” presentation, if that is smart. Video games like Hidden People and Krispee Road are ones that instantly come to thoughts. Properly I’ve one other painfully charming and lovable sport so as to add to that listing and it’s Studio Folly’s new phrase sport Gubbins. What the heck’s a Gubbin? Properly, mechanically they’re an assortment of modifiers that may each assist and hinder your pursuits whereas taking part in the word-making portion of Gubbins.
However a “gameplay modifier” simply sounds so boring, so Studio Folly determined to decorate up every of those modifiers as a special wacky character. In case you are outdated like me and bear in mind the sport present Press Your Luck, the Gubbins are kind of a sibling to the Whammy. You’ll simply be going about your corporation, attempting to make phrases on the sport board utilizing a pile of single letters or letter chunks on the backside of the display, after which BAM out of nowhere a no good Gubbin will come alongside and do one thing to mess up your meticulously planned-out phrase that you simply had been attempting to create. Dang you, Gubbin!
Fortunately there are good Gubbins too that may sort of counteract the unhealthy ones messing with you by providing up some very very useful skills. This could be providing you with a free letter of your selecting so as to add to the board and even letting you are taking letters down from the board and add them again to your usable pile. Regardless of the case, it seems like each time there’s a Gubbin attempting to screw you over there’s one other Gubbin exhibiting up that will help you do one thing wonderful that you simply wouldn’t have been in a position to do by yourself. It’s just like the Yin and Yang of the Gubbins world.
It helps that the bottom phrase sport everything of Gubbins is constructed round can also be actually strong. As I stated earlier than you’ve got a stack of letter playing cards on the backside, typically single letters and typically chunks of a number of letters on one card. Drag them onto the play subject to create phrases, each horizontally and vertically. Utilizing a card from the stack on the backside will then reveal one of many letter playing cards beneath, so there’s kind of a “hope and a prayer” issue that goes into taking part in, as usually I’ll be establishing a phrase that I don’t technically have all the proper letters for but, however… absolutely it’ll present up as I draw extra playing cards, proper? Proper!? This may clarify why I’m all the time dropping at poker. I’m a river chaser by means of and thru.
Gubbins is free to play the traditional mode as a lot as you want, and there’s just a few totally different IAP choices to unlock extra modes and Gubbin varieties and different neat decorations. Proper now the bundle to only purchase every part and make the sport solely premium is ten bucks, and for those who like taking part in the free portion I believe that’s the best way to go. Actually although, you’re paying for these candy, candy Gubbins and their gosh darn lovable personalities. The way in which they’re animated, the sounds they make, their wacky designs, and naturally the best way they playfully pop in to fully screw over your sport that was going so effectively as much as that time. It’s very endearing, and… maddening! I do get pleasure from it although so for those who dig phrase video games don’t let Gubbins cross you by.
