Cartoon Network Match Land

The actual gameplay is pretty fun and addictive, however, if you’re wanting a game where you collect Cartoon Network characters and customize your team to your play style, you’re going to be very disappointed. It’s probable you’re going to have your starting 5 characters for weeks of consistent gameplay before you unlock more. The imbalance of difficulty, rewards and resources needed is mind boggling. The characters could have a more variety of skills as well, as even when you do unlock more, it doesn’t necessarily benefit your team. Some of the level requirements and difficulty can be wall building sometimes. You can have 3 stars on all the levels before and get stuck on one level because it’s drastically harder. I’ll still play it for a bit or from time to time when I just want to zone out but even spending a little money unlocked nothing and gave me a chest with character shards I already had waiting for eco materials (which can take weeks per character)

I have been trying to save up for the bigger chest, which takes a very long time to get to after the first few worlds. But when entering the screen to buy chests, it periodically resets to have the 800 gem chest instead of the key chest that I buy all the time. I finally accidentally hit the buy for the chest thinking it was the key chest, so I wasted 800 gems on the lower quality chest. The game itself has actually been pretty fun despite the grinding aspects of the gameplay, but it takes way too long to gather gems, especially when they set up a trap to trick you into using them suboptimally without any confirmation for the purchase. Update: a current sale on items purchased with gems kind of makes up for the 800 gems that were wasted. But this sale coincides with a game update that has raised the cost to buy figurines using gold significantly, making the grind to get new characters even worse than it was before. Also, I was a single trophy away from unlocking Pearl with 5 stars before the update happened. Now she will only have 4 stars when unlocked. And because of the new characters added, I haven’t been able to buy any more of her trophies yet.

The artsyle in this game is very charming, and I do like the playstyle, but this game just screams lazy. It’s just Match Land but the characters are from CN. Literally, only a few assets are different. There aren’t even many characters you can get in the game related to CN; just a few from Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and We Bare Bears. The controls are inaccurate and frustrating; sliding with your finger may select the wrong direction or tile, and tapping tiles proves unresponsive. Grouped with the fact that amount of turns are precious in the game, the time limit is short, and the turn ends if you make a mistake, it’s a bit of a mess. Fix the accuracy, and please either extend the time of a turn or don’t punish players for making a mistake especially when it’s the game’s fault. You can’t even play the game for very long because they don’t give you enough stamina for it, and I don’t feel like watching ads every time I wanna play a level. But, even more hendering is the required level to beat a stage is a tiny bit steep, and you may be spending the stamina on looting instead to level up a character and then waiting several minutes to get more coins. No, I don’t want to pay money if it won’t be worth it in the long run. The idea of a cute pixelly CN character game sounds good, but this ain’t it.