[b]wordland: let's travel[/b] is pretty much the same as [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1599690]wordland[/url], [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1640760]wordland 2[/url] and [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1652650]wordland 3[/url], except it adds a theme, which it should've done after the first game.
it's still a great word game/crossword/tetris hybrid. there are various shapes with letters on a grid and they have to be arranged to form all the words described on the bottom. this is where the [b]educational element[/b] comes in, [b]descriptions assume a bunch of geographical knowledge (or googling skills) from the player[/b]. no diagonals, only left to right or downward, but they don't all have to be connected to each other. in fact, the game accepts layouts that wouldn't fly in a real crossword (e.g. va-tic-anc is accepted even though the answer is vatican).
[b]50 levels[/b] instead of the usual 100, unlocked one by one. the [b]3 difficulty levels[/b] control the amount of revealed letters (more on easy, only the first letter on normal, none on hard), but there's no indication of any of this in the game, so you can't see which levels were completed on which difficulty.
[b]controls are very convenient[/b], left click to pick a piece up, mouse wheel to rotate in either direction, another left click to place. my biggest gripe with the original game was the size of the board, lots of tedium when the word was one letter too long and the entire thing had to be moved a tile to the left piece by piece. plenty of space on the screen, not sure why only a small area is used if it's not a lazy mobile port, but the current size is mostly good enough. towards the end there are way more pieces to move around though, so the grid could still be bigger.
[b]excellent music, but using the same short loop in 4 games now and calling it 'original' is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous.[/b] backgrounds are also nice, some are animated and most are new this time (finally!), but [b]they don't fill the entire screen properly, looks like some lazy mobile crap[/b] instead of the 'artistic choice' they went for. and some are still too dark to be of any use. they change after every restart or new level, and can be changed manually, and also locked so they stay the same all the way. [b]a gallery of them could be a great reward for completing the game.[/b]
settings-wise all the neccessities are present, separate volume settings, windowed mode with a couple resolution options (there could be a few more), and level selection is also a thing. these are all accessible from the main menu and while playing.
[b]it's high time an entry in the series got a more specific coat of paint[/b], the first 3 games are 99% identical, more of exactly the same, music and backgrounds included. besides the traveling aspect there's [b]suitcase decoration[/b] here as an optional extra. not much to it, unlock stickers by solving levels and place them on your luggage that you can also color or draw on, but it's only shown on that screen.
instead of vocabulary, the game is based on geographical information, but difficulty depends on the individual player's knowledge all the same. still, it's really pleasant overall, just like the ones before, but [b]hopefully if there's more coming, they'll all have a theme and more unique features[/b]. I'm always down for food-related stuff, for example.
