So far, I’m really happy with the new update. I’ve so missed being able to EARN blades by completing quests — it finally feels like classic Fruit Ninja again. The extra blade bonuses are interesting, but I’m worried that the more blades you get, the more annoying upgrading them will be, since it’s not only pure luck which blade you can upgrade, but pure luck which upgrade you get. I can see why this was done, but it’s probably going to get really infuriating really fast. If it could just be “spend this many duplicates to upgrade this bonus,” and the smaller bonuses are cheaper, I think that would be more satisfying and rewarding all around. Additionally, I would REALLY like it if you could turn off those bonuses. Sometimes I want to just play a mode in its default state, with no changes to bomb size or time limit or any of that, but I want to also be able to use my favorite blade while doing that, so being able to toggle the bonuses on or off once they’re unlocked would be VERY appreciated. (This is honestly something I’ve wanted since blades first got bonus effects. Right after a major update, when tweaks are surely still being implemented, is probably the best time to request it.)

I am very, very, disappointed. This game has been around my entire childhood and the one thing I loved was that it never changed. While a lot of the apps I loved changed and became boring, unplayable, or ad riddled, this one never did. It was fun, challenging, and the blade and dojo powers where something to keep it interesting. It was perfect. Until it wasn’t. I still can’t believe that Halfbrick changed it. One thing developers really need to catch onto, is that a game that has been around for decades, and is labeled “Classic” doesn’t need to be updated to draw a bigger crowd. Make a new app. Make ten! Just don’t change the one that has been the same for a long time. The game is now unplayable. You can’t even play the app you paid for unless you give your email, name, ect ect, to a club that literally has no use. It’s free now, but you still can’t play unless you sign in. Which I won’t. While the spin tokens and different blades are cool, I’d trade it all to go back to the simplicity of Classic Fruit Ninja. I am very sad about this Halfbrick, and I hope that you won’t ignore all the thousand of reviews who say the same thing. ~A Ninja~ Edit. Now you have to pay a subscription to play! Nobody should be forced to pay a subscription for a game they already paid for, no matter how long ago it was. This is so so dumb. I can’t even. Anyways, good luck to everyone who loved the old game as it was. I miss it too.

I’m depressed. In a funk. Feeling positively down. Bummed, one might say. I used to love Fruit Ninja. It was a great game. You slice the fruits, you cuss when you hit the bombs, and maybe you unlock a new blade once in a while. Anyway, fun times. So today I decided to relive some of that fun, even deleted a bunch of stuff to make room for it. But then I get to play it and BAM! You get to play for 20 minutes. If you want to be a ninja any longer than that, you have to make an account and pay like 35 buckos a year. Now if I could just buy the flipping game for like 10 bucks, I’d be fine. Thrilled. Whatever. But to have to subscribe? To play freakin’ Fruit Ninja? Nah bro. Just nah. So I played my 20 minutes. It was fun. Kinda bogged down with extra stuff. Slot machines, leveling up, that kinda stuff. But still fun. Then of course, like all good things, the end came. The app tried to get me to pay, tried to get me to play their other games (likely with time limits), and guilt tripped me into oblivion. So I was like no bro. Go eat some bombs in your fruit salad. Gonna go play Plants Vs. Zombies, a game from my youth that mostly hasn’t started sucking. Mostly. Goodbye, sensei. See you never 😜

I used to love fruit ninja but this new update makes the game so unrewarding to play. The new system to get blades and upgrades them through blade pieces makes the game feel so unnecessarily grindy. I have so many starfruits and virtually nothing to use them on because it’s rare that I get enough shards to actually upgrade my blade. My suggestion is to either (1) Ditch the shard system entirely and allow the player to upgrade the blades without the shards at all using starfruit or (2) allow starfruit to be used to buy the loot crates that give blade shards. Additionally, what purpose is there to removing the dojo powers? It says that the dojo powers are coming soon but the majority of the dojos already HAD powers I don’t see what reason there is to go out of the way to remove the dojo powers and release the update before adding them back in. In a system that is already so unrewarding it’s really annoying to receive dojos as prizes for leveling up and they don’t even help you because they don’t have a power. Hope halfbrick changes their mind and reverts both gamed or at least fruit ninja classic back to what it once was.