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Posted by GoNintendo Dec 27 2011 20:13 GMT
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A portion of a Nintendo Life review...

It's still entertaining to play until you have to quit and start over with a new board and set of letters, but a diminished feeling of achievement lets the game down. If a more robust, tweaked version hit the shelf, however, it could perhaps prove a must-buy, but as it is this entry falls in the "just decent" range.

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Posted by IGN Dec 16 2011 07:57 GMT
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Another DSiWare release that has ties to the physical DS past, WordJong Arcade is a follow-up to 2007's original WordJong. It was an addictive word puzzler that mashed up the games of Scrabble and Mahjong -- you follow traditional Mahjong rules of picking tiles one at a time off of a stack to unlock more tiles layered below, but to eliminate them completely you've got to create English words using the letters printed on each one...