When I tested the first scenes in the only TWO areas apparently available, EACH were VERY BUSY, FUZZY, OVER-COMPLICATED SCENES. In one scene, after 5 minutes, I only found ONE of the items. IF the SCENES were CLEAN (while still having LOTS of items within) AND AS LOVELY AS THE PROMO PICTURE, I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT IN A SECOND.
There have been so few 'GOOD' Match 3 games on Big Fish for quite a while - at least none that I haven't already bought. This has nice Match 3 Plus taking care of cute donkey, special quest areas, nice 'available' bombs, etc. by making long matches.
1) They still kept the 'Visual C Basic installation, which is not needed; 2) NO ZOOM; 3) too many similar possible matches that do not match; 4) Same annoying small jigsaw puzzles that FORCE YOU TO WAIT 1:20 to Skip
Why would you buy this since it is almost exactly the same as all the previous versions?
I really wanted to like this because I really liked 2 out of the 8 levels I tried. But, for me, the other 6 were terrible! I personally hate mixed up letters h/o, then the 'choose pairs' really poor, smell matches even with hints. A shame because if they had given me the option to change formats on some of the 6, I would have purchased it.
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'.