Lost Words: Beyond the Page game review: Video game and storybook magic for young audiences

The fanciful spacing lends itself to some whimsical platforming sections in which players move around a tiny girl who can run along the top of the words. By jumping on certain brightly-colored words, the avatar can drive Izzy’s narration forward until, eventually, a little tear appears on the page, serving as an exit that results in a page flip or a change of setting. Some words can be detached from sentences and moved about to create steppingstones so that the avatar can leap to otherwise out-of-reach places. Occasionally, words must be shifted about to form simple sentences that express the pearls of wisdom Izzy has received from her grandmother — like the motivational tautology, “A writer is a person who writes.” (Don’t be a poseur kids.)