Word Safari: The Friendship Totems is one of those GBA hidden gems where you don’t just spell words—you actually go on an adventure with them. The second you start, you’re thrown into this lush jungle full of weird little creatures who talk in riddles, and suddenly you’re scrambling to piece together words from scattered letters just to get past a vine bridge or something. It’s way more exciting than it sounds.

The totem gimmick is cool—each one gives you a different word power, like freezing time or revealing hidden letters, but you’ve gotta earn them by outsmarting these chatty animal guardians. I remember getting stuck on the owl’s puzzle for way too long because I kept forgetting "quetzal" was a word. The pixel art’s got that cozy GBA glow, and the music’s weirdly catchy for a game about spelling. If you ever wished Scrabble had a plot and a monkey sidekick, this is your game.