| After parachuting into the DSiWare Store as a | | | | you can help it to eventually have the required |
| download of just its basics, Bejeweled Twist is now | | | | number cascade into the play field. It's unfortunate |
| a full-featured game for the DS. The most recent | | | | that Challenge and Blitz are locked away when you |
| sequel to PopCap's zillion-selling puzzler series has | | | | start playing. You must hammer through at least ten |
| amassed a considerable audience, as you might | | | | stages of Classic mode to unlock them. |
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| rotation move that adds complication instead of | | | | Of course, gem-matching is complicated by various |
| depth and just slows the once-furious pace of | | | | troubles, such as goal gems that can only be |
| Bejeweled down too much. | | | | eliminated by getting caught in bomb gem blasts or |
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| As opposed to the DSiWare download, Bejeweled | | | | Bejeweled Twist. When you match the lightning gem |
| Twist includes the entire game. Classic mode, where | | | | with its same-colored brethren, sparks explode in all |
| you strategically work to match three or more gem | | | | four cardinal directions. If you line up the lightning |
| colors by rotating quartets with a special cursor, is | | | | gem with coal and locked, unmovable gems, you can |
| flanked by Challenge Mode and Blitz Mode, which add | | | | rack up a massive score. (Another high note: scoring |
| considerable heft to the overall package. Challenge | | | | a Mega Fruit Bonus by matching fruit gems like the |
| Mode, in particular, is my favorite quadrant of | | | | pattern in the top screen.) I absolutely cannot stand |
| Bejeweled Twist's four play modes (the final being | | | | the bombs gems, though. They have a countdown |
| the open-ended Zen Mode where you just match | | | | timer on them. If that timer hits zero before you |
| without any stress-inducing threats). | | | | match it, you go into a slot machine minigame to |
| The challenges including achievable but difficult targets | | | | determine if the bomb blows up and ends your game |
| like clearing 70 gems within 20 moves, make three | | | | or if you get to move on. A game that relies this |
| red gem matches in a row, or somehow get 15 | | | | much on reasons strategy shouldn't have cheap |
| green gems on-screen at the same time – which | | | | deaths based on dumb luck. |
| is accomplished by not making any green matches if | | | | |