Quick to platinum- only have to complete 50 puzzles as long as you use every letter once and finish the last one.
I like ladder games - usually play them on Sporcle so when I saw the powgi sale on ps store I stocked up on several games, already owning a few and beating them.
The game becomes more difficult as you progress and it makes sense to play in order to build up your skill. The controls are simple once you learn them. The music is pretty awful because it’s so repetitive and if you ever played any powgi game it’s pretty much the same. It’s the one feature you can toggle off in the menu at least.
For the trophies you don’t even have to solve the puzzle to pop the trophies for each letter so you can just make up the words to get the most trophies then reset the puzzle to complete.
The issue I had with this being any better - and I only played a 50/150 puzzles is that they were redundant - I feel like my answers were so similar from puzzle to puzzle that it made me a little sad to see the lack of diversity. You can pretty much use the same words over and over especially if it’s something like the top word l starts with a vowel and the bottom word the second letter is a vowel.
I did like having the option to start from the top or bottom. I think I prefer Sporcle ladder games as there’s a layer of trivia like a crossword hint you are answering.
Overall if you like ladders games this is a fairly well done option with a lot of puzzles. The most difficult ones are 5 words worth 12 words. I absolutely spammed through the alphabet on some to find words so I would say that most people will have a good challenge with some of the puzzles. And a lot of uncommon words provably make puzzling solving easier - if you can figure them out.
It’s definitely a good buy on sale. And you can easily at a platinum to your collection in under 2 hours.
And the puns are still just as wonderful as the other powgi games.
I like ladder games - usually play them on Sporcle so when I saw the powgi sale on ps store I stocked up on several games, already owning a few and beating them.
The game becomes more difficult as you progress and it makes sense to play in order to build up your skill. The controls are simple once you learn them. The music is pretty awful because it’s so repetitive and if you ever played any powgi game it’s pretty much the same. It’s the one feature you can toggle off in the menu at least.
For the trophies you don’t even have to solve the puzzle to pop the trophies for each letter so you can just make up the words to get the most trophies then reset the puzzle to complete.
The issue I had with this being any better - and I only played a 50/150 puzzles is that they were redundant - I feel like my answers were so similar from puzzle to puzzle that it made me a little sad to see the lack of diversity. You can pretty much use the same words over and over especially if it’s something like the top word l starts with a vowel and the bottom word the second letter is a vowel.
I did like having the option to start from the top or bottom. I think I prefer Sporcle ladder games as there’s a layer of trivia like a crossword hint you are answering.
Overall if you like ladders games this is a fairly well done option with a lot of puzzles. The most difficult ones are 5 words worth 12 words. I absolutely spammed through the alphabet on some to find words so I would say that most people will have a good challenge with some of the puzzles. And a lot of uncommon words provably make puzzling solving easier - if you can figure them out.
It’s definitely a good buy on sale. And you can easily at a platinum to your collection in under 2 hours.
And the puns are still just as wonderful as the other powgi games.