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With word games, there are generally two kinds. Your slow and steady searching for the best
use of available letters before letting fly, and the fast paced create any word that pops
into your head immediately before the timer runs down. Bubbles in Paradise is the latter
with the addition of the letters themselves being in expanding bubbles that need to be
popped as soon as possible, because the longer these letters stay on the screen, the larger
the bubbles get, leaving less room for that elusive vowel or consonant you're waiting
on to create your super word of doom.
Like a lot of word games, tapping is the control scheme of the day here. The bubbles float
upwards from the bottom of the screen and to form a word you tap the letters you want
in succession. If you tap a wrong letter or aren't happy with your word, you can either
reverse your taps on the bubbles to remove letters or tap the word at the top of the
screen to start anew. During play you'll uncover power-ups to aid or hinder you that are triggered
by using that letter in a word. This is also how stars, the game's unlock currency are
obtained.
Each new mode of play or level is only unlocked when a certain number of stars have been collected.
A few stars will show up in each game you play, but be quick to tap them and use them
in a word for they fly off the screen quickly. While the numbers needed to unlock these modes
aren't ludicrous, they can be high for what is essentially the same game as the first
level in normal mode with a tiny change to the gameplay. The only real worthwhile mode
is battle, where you can play a friend or stranger head to head to test who has the
greater vocabulary, and luckily this mode is one of the early unlocks.
Like many word games, Bubbles in Paradise will amuse fans of the genre but the pacing
and unlocking won't please a larger audience, even though it might be fun for a short play.
It's up to your own discretion here folks.