I’m bananas for hand-drawn and animated graphics in video games, notably ones that function a bunch of foolish or bizarre characters and a really “home made artwork venture” presentation, if that is sensible. Video games like Hidden Of us and Krispee Road are ones that instantly come to thoughts. Nicely I’ve one other painfully charming and cute sport so as to add to that listing and it’s Studio Folly’s new phrase sport Gubbins. What the heck’s a Gubbin? Nicely, mechanically they’re an assortment of modifiers that may each assist and hinder your pursuits whereas enjoying 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 distinct wacky character. In case you are previous like me and bear in mind the sport present Press Your Luck, the Gubbins are form of a sibling to the Whammy. You’ll simply be going about your small business, attempting to make phrases on the sport board utilizing a pile of single letters or letter chunks on the backside of the display screen, 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 supplying you with a free letter of your selecting so as to add to the board and even letting you’re taking letters down from the board and add them again to your usable pile. Regardless of the case, it appears like each time there’s a Gubbin attempting to screw you over there’s one other Gubbin exhibiting up that can assist you do one thing superb that you simply wouldn’t have been capable of do by yourself. It’s just like the Yin and Yang of the Gubbins world.
It helps that the bottom phrase sport the whole lot of Gubbins is constructed round can be actually strong. As I stated earlier than you could have 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 area 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 under, so there’s form of a “hope and a prayer” issue that goes into enjoying, as typically I’ll be establishing a phrase that I don’t technically have all the precise letters for but, however… absolutely it’ll present up as I draw extra playing cards, proper? Proper!? This may clarify why I’m at all times shedding at poker. I’m a river chaser by way of and thru.
Gubbins is free to play the basic mode as a lot as you want, and there’s just a few completely 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 fully premium is ten bucks, and when you like enjoying 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 cute 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 utterly screw over your sport that was going so properly as much as that time. It’s very endearing, and… maddening! I do take pleasure in it although so when you dig phrase video games don’t let Gubbins cross you by.
