Sugar Blast: Pop & Relax

My sister has played this game for a while, a LONG while! I just started playing recently. It’s so much fun, and it’s addictive. You have 3 hours to play each day, so use those hours wisely. There aren’t any ads unless you want them to help you through a level. Before this game, I played two others, and now I can’t even play them. This is the perfect game. HOWEVER! I don’t think the people who make this game want new players. My sister and I play while we listen to audiobooks, and she’s wayyyy ahead of me. But she remembered how it was when she started. And she gets more time every other treasure chest. It’s 20 minutes, a power up, and coins. When she’s gone to a huge level, she’ll get an hour, or sometimes two hours, and much better power up and more coins. I’ve gotten up there in levels, but they’ve CHANGED IT! I never get more time, and the power ups aren’t as good, and the coins aren’t as much. I know 3 hours is a lot, but it get harder and if you didn’t have that time, no one would keep playing. But audiobooks take a while, and we like to listen and play. The problem is, I’m not getting the things she does. I don’t even get what she does in the chest on the side. I get 10 coins, and she gets 30 minutes of a big bomb. It’s not right. For her, it’s a five star game. For me, it’s about a 2.5 and I’m thinking of going back to my other games. To reduce the gifts is just ridiculous, and it’s not at all okay.

This game is different from the other blast games. No hard blocks and bombs here; this game has little soft jelly blobs that float around while trying to meet the objective. The best part, there aren’t those pesky ads in Sugar Blast. There are ONLY ads IF you choose to watch for the extras; shots, lives and coins. Oh and you get 5 lives to start, but you are awarded different time increments throughout the different levels i,e., 20, 30 minutes or 2 and 3 hours of playtime. I’m of the older crowd, and the soothing sounds and movements makes this a very relaxing game.

I agree with others in that this game was super fun to begin. Lately, I notice a marked change in what is supposedly “random”ball drops of color. When I am playing with my own lives, the levels are easier, better options for matching. When I am on “free play” (that you EARN by collecting stars within the game) things are magically harder, and it becomes next to impossible to win a level. The difference is subtle but it’s there. It’s obvious the algorithms are written to keep your progress slower when you aren’t investing real money for lives or boosters. I am happy to pay to play a game when it’s not this obviously manipulative. Otherwise, I will move on to something more above board. Sad, too, because I am generous when it comes to games that don’t feel rigged. I am a hard working adult who happens to invest in playing games as an entertainment expense because I recognize that creativity of game inventors should be acknowledged and rewarded. But not when I feel I am being taken. Forget it and move on to a more ethical developer.