Cats & Soup : Magic Recipe

I love this game, I’ve had it for about a year now maybe a bit less. The only complaint I have is the energy gets a bit wacky when you get gifted them through passes or leveling up or daily log in. The first time I noticed was when I leveled a cat up to level six. It says when you do that you get “max energy +50.” I leveled my cat up to level 6 and literally got nothing. I messaged them about this and they weren’t really helpful at all and just said basically said “when you get to level six you get max energy +50.” Which yes that’s what the game said but it did not happen. Today, I purchased a pass. It wasn’t the season pass, but the welcome back pass. Before purchased it said once I purchased I would get 700 energy, when I purchased it only gave me 500. Again today, I got on for my daily log in, and today’s reward was 100 event energy. Every event usually starts you with 200, so I should’ve had 300, but when I started it was only at 250. I haven’t really checked this event energy you start with cuz they’ve always been 200, so the only thing I could assume is maybe they lowered this events starting energy to 150 or its a bug like a lot of other times. It’s great game other wise, I’ve honestly poured a good amount of money into it because I enjoy it so much lol, but the whole energy not being given correctly a lot really puts a damper on things some times.

This game is a lot of fun and one of the few merge games Ive continued to return to. Ive been playing this version before the most recent update and have some comments about certain choices the devs went with. Firstly, costume tickets are already difficult to obtain. Removing even the common costume tickets as a level 3 cat reward is restrictive to players in terms of enjoying an entire subset of gameplay through dressing your cats up. A lack of a replacement to obtain that ticket is dismaying with no information on whether or not tickets can still be obtained through leveling cats. Secondly, removing the purchasable special costume tickets in the shop with coins is even more dismaying. That had been the only consistent way for me to unlock certain limited costume pieces. If the issue is that there are not enough outfits, i would encourage devs to create more general stock outfits instead of robbing players from a hard to earn currency. It leads players to believe this is no longer a F2P friendly merger. If the devs read this, much of the rest of the update is great! However the “adjustments” made to other obtainable items is vague and unclear. Overall, im saddened by these decisions and hope the devs will reconsider adding more ways for players to obtain costume tickets. 4/5 for the noticeable decrease in enjoyment playing with this update and the changes it brought.

As much as I loveeee this game, it feels extremely pay-to-win heavy, especially after this last update. I completely get that developers need to make money. But it’s frustrating only getting 10 minutes of play time a day, because the ingredients you need are so rare that it takes so long to even get what you need to progress. On top of this, the events are impossible to complete without buying more energy with real life money. I will never get the large event award simply due to the fact that the event ingredients are worth so little experience, and it only gives me ingredients that are just like, impossible to get. I think this game just needs better optimization, and a better chance to do well without having to spend real life money. I am a huge critic of its new buddy call system. I didn’t know this would turn into a gacha game. The call system is incredibly inflated too, having to pull 115 times (each costing 50 gems) to even get SOMETHING that isn’t useless. I shouldn’t be spending 50 gems to get 100 coins or a singular auto merge that I will never use. Overall I hope this game can lean more into the game side that it had before this last update rather than a micro transaction scheme. I genuinely loved this game before this update.