Eat Your Words

[h1]Cute game but deeply flawed & unplayable[/h1] As the trailer shows, the goal is to click on surrounding letters to form a word that is at least 3 characters or more. When a word is formed, the letters that make it up turn into sushi, which you must then match with other similar sushi pieces (which will in turn appear when you form other words) so they will disappear. As you might already be thinking, this is going to be incredibly difficult. [b][i]And it is. [/i][/b] Let's talk about why. [b][u]#1 -[/u][/b] The letters you click on must be in the exact order that make up the word: e.g. "D-R-A-W" and not "D-A-R-W". This means that your word formation options are already quite limited. [b][u]#2 -[/u][/b] Once letters become replaced with sushi, this makes forming further words even more difficult, because not only are you left with fewer letters on the board, the sushi pieces may also block you from reaching some letters! Sometimes, whole clusters of letters become inaccessible because of this. [b][u]#3 -[/u][/b] You only get 3 "swap" chances per level, where you can swap the position of 2 adjacent letters. The swap function is also really quite useless, because sometimes there just are no vowels or other useful letters nearby, and since you can only swap the position of 2 letters that are touching each other (diagonally included), there really are no good/viable options for you to swap. [b][u]#4 -[/u][/b] If you take too long to form a word (apparently there is some internal timer which you're not shown), small numbers will start appearing on random letters: e.g. an "H" will suddenly display "5" on it. This now means that if you wish to use the "H", the word that contains it must be made up of exactly 5 letters! So the game has become wayyyyy more difficult now!!! [b][u]#5 -[/u][/b] You have a limited number of moves per level. To get to the next level, you need to hit a minimum score, which you need to reach before your moves are used up. Combine this with the previous points I mentioned, and you'll quickly realise that this game is ridiculously tough! [b][u]#6 -[/u][/b] A lot of common words aren't even recognised. I formed at least 4 that the game refused to accept, and they weren't even names or obscure words or whatever. For a word game, this is unforgivable. [h1]Conclusion[/h1] Eat Your Words hopes to be a combination of word game + match-3, but fails to succeed at either. It is far too difficult and impossible (I didn't even manage to make it past level 2) to get through, and many words are not recognised. Save your time and trouble and go play Wordle (the original one) instead!