With the name of the game being speed, you’re going to want to make as many matches as you can in as short a time as possible and try to keep your combo going.
Movement however is where the biggest shortfall in this game comes in as moving around with the analog stick is dreadfully slow and clumsy.
With only one minute rounds, a good portion of how well your game is going to go comes from luck and your original gem layout, combined with how quick you can spot potential matches and make the move. As you find your score coming short of the top by just a few thousand you’ll find that Bejeweled Blitz is the definition of “just one more round” gameplay as you keep hitting “retry” as you get SO CLOSE to the top. Seeing your name at the top feels very good, but seeing your friends name is infuriating. The XBLA version imports every facet of the Facebook version, including the leaderboard integration with your friends list. It was easy to load up the game and play a few quick rounds before you head out to work (or while at work when your boss wasn’t around), but it was also just as easy to find those minutes turn into hours as you scramble to get better scores and knock your friends off that leaderboard. This was perfect when the game was released on Facebook last year and is a large reason the game enjoyed as much success as it did. Both come with one jarring change however the rounds are cut down to precisely one minute in length. The results are very surprising.īejeweled Blitz LIVE comes with two different game modes Classic, which runs with the classic Bejeweled gameplay of matching gems by swapping two, and the Twist mode which replaces the cursor with a wheel that highlights a group of four gems and rotates them all either left or right. The question is as always whether or not this is a version that you must own, or if this is one of the ports that just doesn’t quite work. Needless to say this resulted in a huge success, as people around the world would load up the game to play a few quick rounds only to find themselves playing for hours trying to beat their friends scores.īut now, PopCap has taken that same formula and released it in the form of a downloadable title for XBLA titled Bejeweled Blitz LIVE. Last summer, PopCap took an interesting step and released Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook. PopCap games have a certain reputation for being incredibly awesome and addicting so much in fact that I often find myself owning multiple copies of the same game as they become available on different platforms.