There are also ranks to achieve, stats to collect, and high score boards to top. Long train journeys can be spent on Classic or Zen, while those looking to fill a short time can peck away at Blitz and Challenge. What's great about this range of modes is that there's always something perfect for each situation.
A series of 13 different missions are offered, ranging from 'pop eight gems in one swap' to 'make three red matches in a row'.Ĭompleting all of these will take dozens of hours, and keep you plugging away at that Bejeweled grid for a serious amount of time. Endless gems appear, and you'll endlessly match them until your fingers can take no more.įor those in a rush, Blitz asks you to see how many gems you can pop in five minutes, with grabbing high scores the name of the game.Ĭhallenge mode rounds it all off, providing the ultimate goals. Zen gets rid of the bombs, and lets you play forever. The idea is to match the bombs before they explode, and gradually over time this becomes more and more difficult as more bombs are introduced and the timers start off lower. The underlying concept is fed through a blender to produce a range of similar yet subtly different challenges.Ĭlassic mode is your standard match-three gameplay, with the end result provided by bombs that are ticking down to zero. There's no better feeling than watching a cascade of gems explode all over the screen in glorious flashes of light. Combos explode, fires destroy unbreakable blocks, locks are broken, and bombs are defused. The more matches you make in a row, the higher your multiplier will climb, rewarding you with special gems and bonuses. As gems match and disappear, others will fall and more matches will become available. You're still looking to match gems three-in-a-row, but rather than swapping adjacent gems you rotate them.įour gems can be spun in a clockwise direction, potentially lining up like-gems and removing them from the game. This latest Bejeweled puts a twist (apologies) on the original format. If only there were Download Play available, we'd be recommending it without reservation. Bejeweled is exactly the kind of game PopCap is famous for: simple on the surface but so perfectly tailored to the reward centres of the human brain that it can destroy an afternoon as easily as chloroform.īejeweled Twist is bursting with modes, stats, and highscore tables that will keep the game firmly lodged in your Nintendo DS for weeks.