Match Collector

I’ve been playing this game a month or two now, waiting for the inevitable moment when it would succumb to all of the things it advertised against. Shockingly, that time never came. The ads are the kidnapper types and they are every level, but I guess they’re technically “skippable” if you have determined fingers. So that part of the ad was misleading. My issue isnt with the ads, the devs need to eat, it’s the type of ad. HOWEVER, I will gladly take a reasonable amount of mildly irritating ads for the fantastic haptics, smooth gameplay, simple and well executed feeling of progression by collecting tiles, not having fifteen pop ups every time you open the app, not having a big laggy winding path like a lot of puzzle apps ripping off candy crush, and a very charming narrator though I have turned him off admittedly, sorry bro (I almost never play phone apps with sound). I love his goofy expressions though, and the quips I have heard are much more entertaining than stuff like the candy crush mascot. I usually hyperfixate on a game for a couple of weeks and then forget it’s on my phone, but I have found myself repeatedly going to this one when I’ve needed something absentminded for my hands without ever getting bored. It’s the perfect amount of stimulation. Absolutely one of my top three phone games of all time.

I normally don’t like match 3 games because they all share the same issues. This one however, doesn’t have any of those issues. Most match 3 games have power ups that you can buy with real money, or energy that goes down when you lose and you have to wait for or pay to refill. Both these things aren’t horrible on their own, but the apps that have them will make certain levels obnoxiously difficult to basically force you to pay for more energy and/or power ups. This game thankfully has none of those things. No stupid paid currency, no stupid abrupt difficulty curve, no stupid lives on a puzzle game. Yes, it is slightly generic in terms of the actual gameplay, but the actual collecting aspect and narrator add a bit of charm to it. The only somewhat negative aspect is the ads, but get real. It’s a mobile game. It’s either ads, or the game isn’t free, whether that be through in app purchases or just making the base game cost money. TLDR: No greedy in app purchases, nice relaxing game, just a bit ad heavy.

I have played this app for a good while now, ive been playing it on my ipad before going to sleep, I was enjoying collecting all the little tiles until i started noticing something that started me getting increasingly frustrated with, which was i the “rarity” of the tiles feels completely arbitrary. the first collection which i just recently completed on my ipad i had 10 of one single legendary tile before finding 3 common tiles and 2 rare tiles. The feeling of annoyance to receive yet another “legendary” tile rather than a so-called common tile which took a week sitting with like 6 left before finally finding them took some of the fun out of getting the tile rewards especially out of the maximum rare/legendary roll, because i nolonger even wanted that one i just want to complete the set. I also recently was hoping to transfer my data in the game on my ipad to my phone so i could continue my progress on the second set, but that doesnt seem to be a feature at all even across the same apple account which was disappointing. I do really like the gameplay, i think the curator’s lines eventually get too repetitive and annoying, and are a little confusing since while about puzzles are about completely irrelevant types of puzzles but i suppose thats part of the quirkiness. it would be nice to toggle just the voice lines and the other gameplay sounds independently because i do enjoy the game sounds but sometimes just the game sounds and my own music would be nice without hearing the same phrases over and over. Overall i will probably continue to play the game most nights to fall asleep even with the things i dont care for so the game enjoyable as is, but i think it could be improved.