I LOVE the MATCH 3 GAMES of this developer. And the first few solitaire games were nice, mainly because of the graphics. But THIS one was just annoying almost all the way through as you frequently have to go through 50+ cards to get a match for the only available card on the board. Even the scenes look way too familiar. And ALL of the "bonus' Games are even worse - with so many blocked cards to clear that you just keep clicking 'next', 'next'. This is the FIRST game by this developer that I really want to end.
is a BLACK SCREEN. When I saw #2, I was hoping they would at least make it playable, unlike #1. But no such luck on my computer, which has played over 200 different Big Fish Games without a problem.
What is the difference, if any, between this and their earlier Babylon? If anyone knows, please enter in a review. The game boards and play that I quick checked so far are IDENTICAL. I stopped playing that at Level 39, as each level getting more and more blocking tiles making it extremely hard to make any matches. And, single hammer powerup on Babylon one took forever to charge, cursor very slow to react.
Graphics and story looked appealing. But when, after 10 minutes clicking everything in site, I could not find the 4th board needed to repair the elevator in the very first scene, and the Hint was not available, I gave up trying. Must be something wrong with me as everyone else seemed to have no problems.
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Their Match 3 games much more interesting, creative and challenging. Their Solitiare games play are just boring. No challenge with ability to go through 2+ decks, frequently needed as you have to click on 20+ deck cards to make one match (very annoying). Even worse, their "bonus" games are poor. More is NOT better. Their jumbo games just use even more board and deck cards, their mah jong games only interesting to those who like that type, and their 'challenge' games are so frustrating when trying to get 5 hearts, spades, etc. in a row when you go through half the cards just to have a chance to get those. So the only appeal for their Solitaire games to me is how appealing their scenes you build are. Almost all are castle type. Their last one (Atlantis 2) scenes were not attractive. The scenes here are more appealing so far - thus my 'ok to buy if you like this type games'.
But this has small tiles, odd listing of what tiles to clear (i.e., says clear gold bars and diamonds for level, but there are NO gold bars OR diamonds, and it's the usual clear different background or blocked tiles... very odd. Play just ok, but would rather play one of the very few more interesting, larger tiles games from this developer if I had nothing but free time.
AWFUL! Pretty scenes/boards, BUT HAD TO CLICK 50+ TIMES THE SAME RESOURCES OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER just to get enough resources to complete a single goal! REALLY BORING!!‘
1) I really dislike ANY game like this that punishes you if you make specific wrong moves by forcing you to start over. I play for fun, and enough challenges to be interesting, NOT to have to start a level over if you get it wrong; 2) This developer does NOT have powerups you can purchase through a store. So if you are stuck needing ONE MORE COIN, you have to keep matching until you get close, or get rockets, etc. powerups by finding match combinations to create them on the board. Frequently that is too repetetive and very time-consuming; 3) They REMOVED MY FAVORITE SOLITAIRE MINI-GAMES! I WOULD LOVE to BUY A SEPARATE 'SOLITAIRE ONLY' game of these types as this developer makes GREAT ones that allow you to actually win by thinking, instead of having to drudge through sometimes 20-30 deck cards just to make one play as most do. THIS developer's Solitaire has a BLANK SPACE CARD area where you can move board cards back and forth to actually manipulate the board.
Given all of the above, I should add that I really disliked ALL their series AT FIRST. But after I took time to learn more by trial (or help), they did grow on me and become much more appealing.
Too bad as cute graphics and fun game play.... UNTIL later levels had way too many SPIDERS and WITCHES that keep DUPLICATING, along with level goals needed 210 of 1 ITEM to remove, having 3 SCREENS, EACH WITH SPIDERS! WAY TOO repetitive and annoying to keep buying powerups to delete them before they take over entire board!!