Project Makeover 12+

I’ve become really addicted to this game over the past few days! However, like many other reviews state, the levels you have to complete become pretty much impossible as you progress through the game. I’m on my third makeover and I’ve been stuck on this one level for about two days now, and been having to wait for my lives to refill because I can’t get past it. It is definitely an attempt to get you to spend real money so you can get more lives/boosts, which is fair enough but still kinda frustrating. On the makeover I’m on right now, I had to spend coins applying a face mask to the person, and then I had to pay to take it off! In my opinion, I don’t think you should have to spend coins on the removal of items. It makes the game get... kind of boring to be honest. Having to go back and complete multiple difficult levels just for silly things like “remove glasses” or “remove shoes”.

That being said though, I really do like this game and the design aspect of it, and picking out different hairs/outfits. I just wish the levels weren’t so hard and I also wish you didn’t have to waste coins earned by those hard levels on the silly things I listed above! I’ve seen multiple reviews say the same thing as me so I really think the game developers should address this!

At first, it gave me what I came for. A fun makeover game helping redecorate the rooms and giving them funky new looks etc. I even found the candy crush-like levels fun, if a bit tedious at times, but I ended up deleting it pretty quickly and here’s why.

About three or four makeovers in, you reach this goth girl who is 1) very pretty and clearly has a really cool sense of style, and 2) frequently shows resistance to getting a makeover, but it’s largely glossed over by bad puns by the other characters who ‘work’ with you. You then have no choice but to strip this character of all her individuality and style which was based off of horror movies (which she loves), and turn her into a basic-looking generic girl with a room that looks like literally every other room you have redesigned up to this point. I played through most of the makeover in the hopes that it would give you options to simply make her gothic look more modern, but no, the only options it gives you are generic and unoriginal. Zero diversity in style and personality. And I know this is just a dumb kids game, but really that’s all the more reason to not keep reinforcing these ideas on very impressionable kids. There is nothing wrong with a gothic style, and it really infuriated me that this is seen as terrible and ‘scary’ in the game. Grow up.

Sorry game, I gave you a shot and you blew it. Peace out.

I have been playing this game for a long time and am on level 586 - so a lot of gameplay hours. I do enjoy playing the game on the whole, and it has more to it than just your Candy Crush-esq levels as you can complete the makeovers with the coins you have earned. The levels can be difficult and frustrating at times but if it was easy, the game wouldn’t be worth paying and we’d all fly through the levels and the makeovers.

My main issue though is the one-time challenges with the levels. It feels like they appear once I am on a roll and have a streak going (where you can collect boosts to start your game off). They offer extra prizes but are insanely difficult. I don’t think I have ever completed one of these levels, and they always mean that I lose my streak and then struggle with the next few normal levels. I understand why the developers do it - if we lose the streaks then we will (hopefully) spend money to buy more boosters ourselves. Realistically, however, it’s just incredibly frustrating and puts me off playing the game as I know my progress will be thwarted. I hope the developers remove the one-time challenges but I don’t believe it will be likely, so I’ll keep playing until I finally rage-quit and give up due to these levels.