Sally's Spa: Beauty Salon Game

I have so many things to say about this game so bear with me. To start off…. The game is way too fast paced. They try to make you pay money for upgrades that are desperately needed such as sauna, massage assistant, etc. In the original game that wasn’t “paid to play”, you were able to get them with just a simple upgrade and hard work , now it’s “4.99 to buy the assistant for 24 hours then it goes to 9.99”. It’s awful that these nostalgic games are turned into money grab schemes by companies when they used to be such a way to escape for awhile. The mechanics of the gameplay themselves are faulty as well. 6 levels in and all the customers are coming in 12 at a time with no way to take care of all of them without one leaving…. but then if one leaves you won’t meet the quota for the day and have to restart! To travel to the next town after winning the first area, you either have to wait 7 hours or pay coins that are needed to get the next upgrade to make the next levels playable. I really tried to give it a try since I enjoyed this game as a kid, but it’s not worth it. I’ll be uninstalling and hope that the developers do a unhaul on these mechanics. Until then it’s definitely not a nice escape after a long day. If you’re okay getting mad and replaying levels 6 times until you’re able to make it through, then more power to you. But this game isn’t worth the space it’s taking up on my phone.

I love this game but there are some frustrating issues that are unnecessary in my opinion. First off, I wish you could accomplish all the levels in one location without having to get farther along in other locations. The most annoying part is that it doesn’t specify where to go a lot of times. You just have to guess and hope that after waiting 8 hours for the flight to get there that you went to the right place. You should be able to finish a location and then go straight to another one without having to wait 8 hours or spend $20 to buy the game. Another annoying thing is having to wait to buy upgrades till you reach a certain point. I have tons of money in the game and as long as I can afford the upgrade I should be able to buy as many as I want. The game is fun but I hate it when the creator tries to make it as annoying as possible so you’ll purchase it. Just let us play without waiting ridiculous amounts of time or having to fly back and forth to get more badges.

If I was rating this game solely on gameplay I’d give it 5 stars. The gameplay is fun for the most part. But the game as a whole has major issues. There are levels where the difficulty feels super unfair. For example, on New York’s expert 3rd level I had literally finished the day serving all but two customers with 5 stars. Kept trying, would always be like $10-30 off the goal. Am I supposed to get EVERY customer with 5 hearts? Now THAT’S impossible. Speaking of impossible, the level system for upgrading your equipment is tedious and useless. I have over $20k earnings in this game that I can’t use because by the time I’ll be able to upgrade my second massage table, i’ll be nearly done with the game. And what’s with the bizarre prices for in the in-app purchases? $5 for ONE employee? That’s ridiculous. The fact that the full game pack costs $35 is just… wow. You could buy a whole game with 20+ hours of content for that price on steam or something. But no, this is a literal app store game charging $35 for the “full game.” And as for the 8 hour flight wait, I’m honestly not even sure who thought that was a good idea. Do they think it’ll annoy us to the point where we pay for fly instantly? So weird. This game is fun, the gameplay is great, but that’s honestly about it. Everything else is just… a mess. I wish the rest of the game did the gameplay justice.