The latest addition to the Kindle games scene is Panda poet. Panda poet is just about as uncomfortable as it sounds. However, the reviews are excellent, and it comes from Spry Fox. They hit the jackpot with their hit game Triple-city, which came out a couple of months ago.
Panda poet is a word game kind of like Scrabble. You market a Board to form a word letters. A panda is generated when you build a word in an open seat on the Board. If you create a word near another panda, panda makes it grow. As panda grows, new letters appear around panda. Your goal is to have the largest panda or the longest word possible.
Here's the catch: each time you create a Word, the other letters on the Board of Directors go a step closer to expire. Letters usually last about four to five rounds. If a mail-expire is replaced with a skull and restricts panda's growth in direction. So, not only did you create the longest word possible, you should think about where to place the words in order to get most of the letters before they expire.
I was amused at the Panda appearance as they grow. A reviewer pointed out that pandas basically are rectangles. But would this game be so interesting, if it was simply called rectangle poet? You also have to remember that Spry Fox has only a monochrome e-ink screen to work with. Penguins will perhaps be next?
Characters is a bit complicated, and a reviewer said that "Help" screen could use some work. However, you can easily pick up a summary of the game through playing. Panda poet is a fun, addicting game well worth the three bucks.
Check out Panda poet Kindle review on Kindle Review Blog.
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