#Improve bejeweled lightning score plus#

#Improve bejeweled lightning score plus#

There's not much you can say about Bejeweled Live Plus that's not been said. I'm not sure if I'd prefer something a little more abstract behind the options and game screen.

It's a bit reminiscent of the fantastic watercolours you would get on a sci-fi novel, and seems a touch out of place in a puzzle game. The artwork on show in the background never quite matches the spinning diamond jewels used for the menu option. Even if that sounds creepily wonderful.Ĭontrols are as polished as they were on the previous app, with a good solid swipe needed to trigger a switching of gems, so it's unlikely that you'll switch two by mistake (and if it's a move that doesn't result in a match, it gets reversed at no cost to the player apart from the time taken). Nobody who doesn't like Bejeweled is going to be swayed into buying the game because there is a variant with a butterfly eating spider that looks like a jewel. While these additions are nice and don't change the style of the game too much, I would regard them as variations on a theme, rather than new games as such. If they reach the top, the spider eats them and it's an instant game over. Zen takes away all the scoring and danger, leaving you with the pure gem switching and nothing else while Butterfly will see the cute winged critters climb up the game grid until you include them in a match-three to set them free. Lightning mode is a timed version of the game, reminiscent of Bejeweled Blitz on other platforms, asking you to score as many points as possible in a short time period Diamond Mine asks you to dig into the ground and reach a certain depth through the destructive power of the gem matching.

Lightning and Diamond Mine have been carried over from Bejeweled Live, while the two new modes in this 'Plus' version are Zen and Butterfly. Bejewelled Live Plus has this classic game mode available, but adds a number of variations. When you get to this level and this maturity, there's a lot more that can be added to the core product to create new challenges. In a grid of gems that measures 8x8, you would switch a pair of adjoining gems (horizontally or vertically) to get a line of three, four or five matching gems - which would then vanish, gems would fall down, and a smart player will have a chain reaction lined up to maximise their score as the gems fall.įrom such basic concepts are games developed and empires made. The Nokia-released Bejeweled Live Plus is another classic, and I've been drawn into the gem matching game once more over the last twenty four hours.įor those of you who haven't seen the game in the last twelve years, Bejeweled was one of the first match-three games that really caught the public's attention. Nokia have continued to show strong support for the Xbox Live brand, and it was nice to see Microsoft follow that with today's release of the classic Angry Birds Seasons.