Nice clean large cards, BUT SO FEW ON DECK that the FREQUENTLY HALF BOARD CARDS BLOCKED make it ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to WIN LEVEL, EVEN WITH POWERUPS AND 4 RE-TRIES. EVEN WORSE, YOU CANNOT CONTINUE to PLAY NEW AREAS UNLESS YOU WIN apparently ALL, or ALMOST ALL of EVERY PREVIOUS LEVEL! So, even at Level 90, unable to continue. That, along with poor, child-like scenes have to take time to build, DOWNGRADES this from an "A" to an "F". What a shame!
WE LOVE THEIR SOLITAIRE ROUNDS, where you have an EMPTY space you can move cards from the Board back and forth to. This makes Solitaire much more fun as you have more control in winning, unlike so many that you can go through 30-40 deck cards without any matches.
We also like this #1 because fewer 'Fires' needing matching, but too many blackouts stopping it as several others in this and Laruaville series has.
WE LOVE THEIR SOLITAIRE ROUNDS, where you have an EMPTY space you can move cards from the Board back and forth to. This makes Solitaire much more fun as you have more control in winning, unlike so many that you can go through 30-40 deck cards without any matches.
We also like this #7 because fewer 'Fires' needing matching, but too many blackouts stopping it as several others in this and Spellarium series has.
Many of the "Challenge Levels" here impossible to win as all depends on what cards dealt, NOT how you play them.
Also, many of us don't care for all the other solitaire game bonuses OR Mahjong. The NEW "Mega" solitaire way too time-consuming - just to get extra fish displayed.
What I would love to see is a Bonus Solitaire similar to Spellarium and Laruaville games that have a SEPARATE BLANK CARD SPACE that you can move a board card to enable you to make longer matches. THIS makes the challenges much more fun and gives you a little more control of the cards dealt, instead of having to sometimes go through 30+ cards before you can make any plays - unless you play lots more rounds to get powerups.
STILL, I will continue to BUY ANY GAMES this Developer puts out..
I enjoyed #10. Quick check of #11 looks exactly the same. That would have been ok, EXCEPT their jigsaw puzzle mini-games are LOTS of SMALL little name id pieces on a map which are just annoying. And you can NOT SKIP those games until 2 minutes are up. So really annoying to have to wait and not have "skip these" options.
I don't recommend this game.
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Hello Venice
Help Adda and Ciro solve a mystery and restore a garden to its former beauty in Hello Venice, an amazing Match 3 game!
they hadn't started making the tile matches needed so lengthy and laborious starting with Level 30 onward. Takes 10-20 min of NOW BORING CONTINUOUSLY matching more. Too bad as LOVE the GARDEN SCENE I'm building, and enjoy moving the water along paths through matches, occasionally getting powerups that help speed the process. JUST TOO TIRESOME AFTER LEVEL 30. About ready to give up.
Took way too long to get the 1st scene, then we finally stopped when we still had 3-4 more items to find in the second. THAT is NOT FUN! Too bad, as the mini-games, etc. sounded like they could be fun.
There has to be at least 10 of these ALMOST EXACT SAME "Stage Complete" games already. So adding ONE MORE WITHOUT ANY MAJOR CHANGES to LAYOUT, etc. is JUST BORING, ESPECIALLY SINCE they make the 'playable' areas more and more blocked so it takes 10-15 minutes of agonizingly slow and repeated moves just to clear one level. ONE OF THESE is MORE THAN ENOUGH. There has been NO GOOD NEW MATCH 3 games from Big Fish for AGES... I really hope some of the best developers of this type (like Suricate) are working on new ones.
I really was excited after starting this game. I enjoyed the mini 'Blackjack' games you can play any time (but they have no 'split' 'double-down' etc options). The cards are clean and nice. BUT, AFTER winning 25 LEVELS, THERE ARE NO JOKERS AVAILABLE in the Store to buy, AND the "ITEMS" tab seems to let you choose which powerup to start level with, BUT THERE ARE NO POWERUPS SHOWN after 25 levels I've won..
So, though you CAN buy an assortment of enhancements to gain more money faster, or get hints shown, etc., the game play after 25 wins has at least 2 'blocked type' cards, and sometimes go through 10 cards with NO PLAY OPTION and NO ability to buy joker. There are too few cards that match.
So I still enjoy it enough to continue to play, it would be so much better if the deficiencies were fixed. Even better would be if they added a few more 'Casino type' Mini-games (like poker, slots) since there NONE available I can find that either don't have viruses of some kind or are too busy and interactively loud.
I like the 'no timer' and 'no max moves'. BUT this Developer just repeats the same game play over...and over.. and over. And, in THIS case, even the Tiles are boring and simplified.