Talk:JumpStart Study Helpers Spelling Bee/@comment-4457974-20161214043654

This should've been a great JumpStart game, but honestly, the execution was really mediocre, especially compared to its sister game, JumpStart Study Helpers Math Booster. The activities tend to be less interesting AND less educational, especially since in two of them, you only have to fill out one to three letters in a spelling word, which isn't really effective as a drill. There are also more playability issues with the activities, such as the red anchovy enemies sometimes being nigh-unavoidable in Seahorse Speedway and blank fish falling and being treated as wrong answers in Fish Frenzy. On top of that, the Editor feature has some major problems. The fact that they make you add 3 misspellings for every word is annoying enough, but far worse is the fact that the text-to-speech voice is not very good at all and the ability to add your own pronunciation barely helps. I wouldn't be surprised if Math Booster was developed after this one, as it seems much more refined overall and is in fact one of my favorite JumpStart games.