TouchArcade Game of the Week: ‘Gubbins’ – TouchArcade

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 “home made artwork mission” presentation, if that is smart. Video games like Hidden Of us and Krispee Road are ones that instantly come to thoughts. Properly I’ve one other painfully charming and lovely recreation so as to add to that record and it’s Studio Folly’s new phrase recreation Gubbins. What the heck’s a Gubbin? Properly, 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 special 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 enterprise, making an attempt 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 making an attempt to create. Dang you, Gubbin!

Fortunately there are good Gubbins too that may form of counteract the unhealthy ones messing with you by providing up some very very useful skills. This is perhaps providing 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 looks like each time there’s a Gubbin making an attempt to screw you over there’s one other Gubbin displaying up that will help you do one thing superb 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 recreation everything of Gubbins is constructed round can be actually stable. As I stated earlier than you may 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 discipline 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 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… certainly 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 a number of 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 completely premium is ten bucks, and should you like enjoying the free portion I feel that’s the best way to go. Actually although, you’re paying for these candy, candy Gubbins and their gosh darn lovely 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 recreation that was going so effectively as much as that time. It’s very endearing, and… maddening! I do get pleasure from it although so should you dig phrase video games don’t let Gubbins go you by.