Match Land: Puzzle RPG

I used to play this game years ago and found out that it’s still being updated years later. This game is very addicting and fun. I wish the game was more lenient with the energy feature, it takes a lot of the fun away, especially when the energy cost increases the more you play. I’d rather save my gems for character tokens and chests instead of spend them for energy to play longer. I would spend money to get rid of the energy feature altogether!! Another thing is, even if i spent a lot of money on this game, it would still take a thousand years to unlock some of the end-game characters. I also think that moving the blocks diagonally can be difficult to execute, and often misfires to other blocks. There is also a glitch i found in the game where sometimes the character tokens don’t show up under the character after you receive one, and it remains as 0/25. This is one of my favorite mobile games of all time and just wanted to express some issues that would make the game perfect.

This is a quirky game with interesting mechanics and a great pixelated art-style that is fun at first but quickly loses its charm. This game forgets it's a phone app and becomes too ambitious as you progress in the game. For one, the board is very small, and with five different types of heroes in your party, it becomes extremely hard to make any matches. You start with one three hero types, which makes the game fun and exciting as you quickly make matches and combos. Then you're bogged down with two more heroes with different pieces that are added to the board. Gameplay slows down and difficulty inexplicably ramps up, despite the new mechanics thrown in. You can't remove any of these extra heroes from your team and the only way to get more heroes to get a more balanced team? You guessed it, pay money for gems for a chance to possibly get a new hero. That's it. The point where the game becomes no fun, unless you have say $50 to blow. Quite sad how little balance there is with the games mechanics. On top of all this, you can't simply replay old levels for fun of you already cleared them with 3 stars. You have to slog onwards through the harder levels, losing over and over until you slowly earn gold and build your team. But, no matter how much you level up your starter heroes, they are nothing compared to the pay to win epic heroes. So good luck with that.

I don’t keep games a long time on my phone because mobile games, especially ‘F2P’, are really disguised as money suckers. Not the case with Match Land, you can play entirely without paying a penny. It hits all my requirements too. No PvP, Facebook login nonsense - just a good, single-player concept slightly more challenging than your typical match-3 games. I appreciate the fact that I can spend an entire afternoon playing or pass time in line quickly playing this and easily put my phone down from either. It’s definitely something I come back to everyday, even after months of playing. It’s almost reminiscent of old Pokémon, collecting your heroes and leveling them up without extra gimmicks like personalities or what time of day you train it. For the record, I like this game way more than the CN version of it and I’ve already deleted that one. It felt too flashy in efforts to attract both kids and adults. While I did enjoy the addition of diagonal movements in CN’s Match Land, it wasn’t implemented well enough and it would wrongly swipe. The original Match Land is much more solid of a game. Thank you for the game and new update, Race Cat! It just keeps getting better with time. :)