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With Peggie Nights PopCap have come good on a promise, and the familiarity serves the game well. Would we have been happier with an isotopic excursion? One in which pegs were swapped for neon ducks and points were metered in altogether new and evei more unpredictable fashions? It's unthinkable. Meanwhile, the quintessential level-ending epiphany of Beethoven's Ode to Joy nails home the gameplay's damning similitude. The opening classical strains have been replaced with Debussy's evocative Clair de Lurie now easing the player into what can only be termed the "action". Pegs are sculpted more closely around background artwork, and the art itself threads narrative through the progression of levels. Sadly, Peggie Nights posits scant innovation. "That was a fun dream," she sighs, "but now it's time to go back to the soil." Few games approach such subject matter, and fewer still with such gravitas. Her saga ends With a languid acceptance her condition. Tula the soilbound sunflower dreams simply of mobility, her dream-legs allowing her to travel the world across five levels. Others are somewhat more emotionally engaging.

Some are fanciful, such as Bjorn's deeply held desires to become a superhero. Peggie Nights is an accomplished isomorph of the previous game, treading the same peg-strewn ground, but taking well-known characters such as Renfield (the pumpkin) and giving us insight to their secret, aspirational dream worlds. Peggie, it would seem, breeds only more Peggie. This isn't the bold, radical re-invention of Peggie we'd been hoping for, the metaphorical metempsychosis of Bjorn the Unicorn to some higher plane of Peggling.

However, it has clutched so firmly to its materfamilias' bosom, it's in danger of choking on a milky nip. Peggie Nights has such rich blue blood coursing through its veins, being the seguel to 2007's seminal Peggie. The genre incumbents are unyielding colossi, and you have to be the offspring of Zuma, the cousin of Iggle Pop or to have made out with BookWorm before a crowd of peers begins to consider parading you about on their shoulders.