28 февраля 2010

Jewels: A Fun Gambling Game

Игорь Сопрун

Last time, speaking about puzzle games, I undeservedly overlooked the game Jewels, which our readers did not fail to draw attention to. Correcting an omission, talking about Jewels.

Yes, this time again about toys, but, in fact, what else to do on the weekend, what to talk about? Let’s play, let’s talk about more serious things for a weekе.

Jeweles really strongly resembles Beweled2, this game, apparently, was taken as a basis. What fans of Bejeweled in Jewels may not like is the absence of various bonuses, prize crystals on the field and other little things that do not bring a lot of new meaning to the game, but the gameplay is quite diversified. There are three game modes in the game.

In Normal mode, you just need to swap the crystals in places, thus earning points. At the bottom, the filling bar shows your progress within the level. The strip will creep to the right edge — the next level begins, the points for each move will be doubled. Etc. The limitation in this mode is as follows: before each move, you need to think about what the move will be after that. Otherwise, it may happen that there are no more possible moves, and the game will end in this case. Your result will be entered into the table of records.

In Timed mode, as the name implies, the game is timed. The strip from below, when considering the next move, will decrease, slowly but surely creep to the left. We made a move — the strip crawled to the right. In this mode, the absence of possible moves does not happen.

The settings are not very rich: here you can turn off sounds, periodically update the game table, you can set the time after which you are given a hint.

The menu has an item Save and Exit, by clicking on it, the game is supposedly saved. I understand that having saved, it will be possible to continue the game in the future from the place where you left off. However, despite the presence of an inscription informing about a successful save, when you restart the game, for example, the same Timed Mode.  At least that’s how it happens with me, on the HTC Hero. Does the game behave differently on other Android backgrounds? Check, write, please, in the comments about this situation. There is a third mode in Jewels: Infinite mode. This mode is a mixture of the two previous ones: the time does not decrease here and you can play endlessly.

With the help of Jewels, you can kill time well, the main thing is not to flirt: the game is executed perfectly, sometimes it is difficult to come off.