CookieRun: OvenBreak

First of all, let me get this straight. I joined Ovenbreak when I heard about the Clash of The Dragonkind (Season 9). Being a Kingdom player for 1 year after joining in the Legend Of The Red Dragon update last year in the end of June, I decided, “Hey, Ovenbreak looks like a good game!”, and it actually is! I love how you can run, and do these competitive runs to aim for first place, and especially the fact you can buy, with your gems, cookies you haven’t gotten yet. Thanks to my abundant supply of crystals, I got Pitaya Dragon Cookie and Ananas Dragon Cookie early. I love those two so much… Anyways, sometimes I wish some Kingdom VAs and new VAs would voice the characters. Although it would be a lot of hard work, I wouldn’t want to tire you out. Also, the Raging Calamity costume looks so cool, I wish I could get it in one pull! But…those are my little daydreams that would never happen. But! Overall, this game is REALLY good to use in case of leisure mode, and the scenes….GOD, SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE known for, because it’s SO GOOD! And the cookies are so cute too! This game is great. Too great. I just want to say, thank you, Devsisters, for making this franchise, because it changed my life, and will stay with me as nostalgia forever. -Clover, former Kingdom player and new Ovenbreak player

Everything’s great, but there are some problems. #1. The updates are very close, making it hard to get new cookies/pets/etc. #2. As a new player trying to get legendaries early, it is hard to get gems (personally) Yes, it is very cheap for just the same price for around 3-4 epic cookies, but I wish it was easier to get gems fast in early-game (Note that most tutorials on how to get gems fast in this game are 2-3 years old.) #3. It is very hard to get rainbow cubes too. I am aware of the rainbow cube wheel but it is hard to even get 50. #4 Whenever I open some things (such as Trophy Race) it just lags out and I can’t play. I do have a particularly old phone, but I’ve been asking my friends who play with a newer phone, and they agree. #5. I’ve read a lot of the reviews on this game, and most of them state that the game shoves deals in your face 24/7. The prices are good, but the overall review would be better if you got less offers shoved in your face. Now with the cons done, I’d like to say the good things about this game. #1. As a f2p player, it is very fun and I haven’t bought anything! #2. The fact that the updates are close is both good and bad, making it not boring if you have all the cookies and pets. Thank you for reading this, have a great day :)

I have been playing this game every single day for over a year. It is my number 1 favorite game, and I never considered myself a mobile gamer. I was enticed by how cute the characters you collect are and I’m sure any new player will too. They’ve come out with some of their best designs in the last year. The game is always exciting and fresh with new features and cookies to collect. The devs must work really hard to push out all this content constantly. They do pop up a lot of packages to buy but they also hand out lots of opportunities to get all the in game currencies. I don’t think anyone could ever get bored. The level designs are beautiful, fun, and always a little different. I love collecting cookies, pets, treasures, jellies, lobbies, and costumes. I only have one complaint. The newest cookies are always the best scoring. It’s a great money making tactic, but I think for every new cookie an old one should get buffed to the same level. They do it sometimes but there’s 2-3 new cookies per update and maybe 1 old one that gets buffed. I look forward to the day all the cookies I maxed 8 months ago being useful again, they are rotting sad and unused. I am also grumpy about magic candy chances as a player who was around before the new rule of “only level 5 candies can be blessed” and I wish it was back the way it used to be. Sometimes I buy the new cookie candy package and do all of the cookie trial bonus missions and still can’t get it to level 5.

I’ve been playing this game for a few years and I really love it, however, sometimes it feels impossible to do ANYTHING if you don’t purchase the packages. Trying to Max a treasure is also nearly impossible, I spent all of my tickets trying to Max ONE treasure and even then I wasn’t able to. It kind of feels like everything is set up to get you to buy the package because then your cookies will be at the Max level and such, but some people just don’t have the luxury of in-game purchases and I think by making the probability of maximizing treasures lower it takes the fun out of the game. I just feel frustrated that I’m not able to do as much. It’s the same issue with the cookies, like I mentioned, I’ve been playing the game for years, but I only have a handful of cookies at their highest level and most of them are rare cookies, which aren’t that powerful compared to epic cookies, and the game updates so often that by the time I’m done maximizing a cookie it’s basically useless in the new update. Rainbow cubes are also ridiculously hard to get and most of the time I use rainbow cubes only to get the same 4 costumes I’ve gotten before, which essentially is a waste of rainbow cubes. I truly love this game, it’s fun and detailed and there’s so much detail to the cookies, their backgrounds, the story, the art and even representation. I just wish the probability of the game wasn’t set up so low so we’re forced to buy the packages if we want to get high scores or finish an event.

I’ve been in love with this game since the Kakao version and I’ve seen it go through many stages. I’m proud to see it flourishing the way I always thought it deserved, but I’m sad to say that Ive dropped it. I’m sure the devs get hundreds of complaints everyday when they make slight changes to the game so before when I had a problem with new features, I’d just complain to myself and carry on trying to gain levels, but the recent changes are just to extreme for me to carry on, (I’m referring to the whole reworking of the treasure system). Like I said before I love Cookierun and have spent many hours playing the game, so when the new update came out I tried playing it on multiple occasions but since then, it just never felt the same. I never got back the same excitement when finishing trophy races or weekly breakouts as I did before and I was just left felt dissatisfied. Maybe it’s because I’m used to playing it a certain way, I’m sure if the treasure system was always like the way it is now It would still be downloaded on all of my devices, but with the way it is now I can’t see myself ever re-downloading it. The changing if the treasure system doesn’t make it a bad game by any means and to those who’ve never played it, I’d definitely recommend, but for veteran players like me who don’t get the same enjoyment out of it anymore I’d just suggest to drop it now while you still have good memories of it.