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Developed by 10 tons, the makers of Tennis in the Face, Spellspire takes their charming animation style and implements it into a text twist RPG across all major platforms. The object of the game is assemble words out of 10 letters that deal damage to opponents based on word length, and what gear you have on. Equipment can be purchased with ingame currency, which is earn by completing battles through the main campaign's 100 floors. There' a couple a dozen enemies with different attack cycles and weaknesses, and it's up to you to bring the correct weapon to fight with. Once the battle is over you get to see the longest word missed, which is good for building vocabulary. The interface has been implemented nicely onto the PS4. It's easy to cycle through letters and there's buttons for clearing and bringing up the previous word. Which you'll want to get comfortable with because it makes conjugations like s, er, and ed very quick and easy. There's also items that can be used like potions, magic attacks, and dictionaries for helping you find a word. The RPG elements in Spellsire are minimal. It's mostly about just spending your money correctly to purchase the best wands. I recommend not bother even upgrading them because stronger version become available later, which is a bit of cop out. Enemies attacks will sometimes prevent you from using letters, and strategy lies in holding out using bigger words on bigger foes, so you need to have a sharp memory. I would have like to have seen more gameplay facets through, like higher attacks for harder letters, and maybe even fighting more than 1 enemy at a time. The word is list good generally speaking, with ability to use profanity, but I came across quite a few words that weren't in the wordlist such as: timesaver, octennial, disorient, copiloted, moaner, pager, and dork . This shouldn't be a problem and I expect the list to grow with patches. BTW the game is only 90 MBs which is commendable. Finally once you beat the 100 floors you unlock a dungeon which is basically an endless mode. I found this more enjoyable that the main game and wish it were unlocked earlier. Overall, Spellspire is easy to recommend if you like word puzzles, but can be a bit of a grind. The core gameplay was enough to hold my attention until the end, but your mileage might vary. How do you think Spellspire holds up to other spelling games? Start a dialogue in the comments and share this video with your classmates.