Welcome to our review of Happy words, which is basically scrabble on Nintendo Switch!
Create words and connect them to the existing ones. Score high points and defeat your friends. Play online, solo or in local mode with your friends and family.
Happy Words is a word based real-time online multiplayer board game for 1 to 4 players in which you have to create new words based on existing ones.
The object of Happy-Words is to score more points than your opponents. A player collects points by placing words on the game board. Each letter has a different point value, so the strategy becomes to play words with high scoring letter combinations.
The game supports English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Bulgarian languages.
You can play Happy Words in 3 modes:
1) Online with your friends or via random opponents from internet
2) Solo versus intelligent robots
3) Local on the same device with your friends and family
The game is highly customizable. You can play with different settings like “time to think”, one or two bags of letters, with or without the use of helping dictionary and many others. You can also customize your board color and tile color styles.
As this is basically Scrabble in disguise, I will not bother to explain how fun this game is, but specifically, talk about the game mechanics and how to use the Joy-Con to operate this game. You read that right, no touch screen support, which is a serious downside.
I am actually a very decent Scrabble player on iPhone where I am playing the clone called Wordfeud. I am a little under 10% lost games and I scored a massive 747 just last week as my newest record of all time. My longest word of all times, Sylvinites, is a 10 letter word. This is not to brag, but to show I really play this game all the time and I am so very much used to touch screen controls and this is where I had to change my perception and start using the Joy-Con.
It is a harsh change from touch to controls. It really is.
You need to move two cursors independently of each other and one picks the letters and the other picks the location on the board. It took me a few passes at first before I even figured out how to cancel a letter. Sure the written tutorial explains all this, but just force impose a pass at a simple button press, it becomes annoying.
After I figured out how all the controls worked, I easily beat the computer players and while I was unable to create a random online game, the developers were so kind to provide a second code for a friend. So I was able to play online and while I did enjoy the games, I kept going back to the bad controls.
This game desperately needs touch controls, nothing more and nothing less. The game itself is fine, it is time-tested and you either love it or hate it.
In conclusion, I love scrabble but the slow controls made me dislike this game a little, should they add touch controls, I will gladly keep going back to it, but for now, my preferred weapon of choice will be wordfeud and not this one.
