Today's Best App: Spell Quest: Grimm's Journey
Spell Quest: Grimm's Journey by Mark Smith (Free, 36.3 MB): If you're a fan of fun and fresh genre mashups such as Puzzle Quest, then you'll want to enroll in this word-based side-scrolling RPG. In fact, like the aforementioned example, Spell Quest's battle system is an integrated mini-game. However, rather than Infinite Interactive's now well established match-3 play approach, combat success here relies upon word brainstorming. As with other word-based competitions, letters are valued according to their ease of use. For example, "E" and "S" sit at a bronze level whereas "K" and "Z" get a gold rating. Therefore, employing higher valued letters and submitting longer words obviously results in a greater attack potency, which relates to the objectives. During each stage of the journey, you have three goals. Mandatory to move forward, the first task simply requires conquering the area without perishing. Survive and elect to earn a full 3-star victory award by further demonstrating those skills in time trial and special challenge tests. The game features hand-drawn-style 2.5-D graphics, triumphant-themed chiptunes, humorous dialog and many peculiarly adorable characters, more than 30 stages, three tile types, weapon upgrades and one-time use battle enhancements, goal-based rating system, itemized and categorized statistics, plus Game Center leaderboards and achievements.
