Bejeweled Classic 4+

Bejeweled has been with me for a while. My dad had an iPad (that I still have lol) that he gave to me to win him a game. He didn’t actually need help. He was just like my mom, on level 300+ but not on candy crush saga. Couple years later, we just stopped. He deleted the app, (he wanted to delete it, he just got a bit bored and unchallenged) lost all his progress, and passed the iPad to me because he got a MacBook. I reinstalled the app on my phone two weeks ago. Still as I remember, but a bit harder. Zen is my favorite mode. It’s amazing how you can just calm down and match with those soothing noises when the gems clad together or you get a supernova gem. I love Bejeweled, but I wish it wouldn’t crash. The more I use the app, whenever I go into any mode, (Zen, ice storm, diamond mining, ect.) everything freezes. It’s weird, but it’s not too often. Other than that, I’m obsessed. Barely any ads, it’s calming with sound effects (THAT YOU CAN TURN OFF), and so much more. It can be thrilling when your timed, but soothing when you have anxiety. I would rate it 5/5 stars, but for me I don’t like the ever-so-often freezes. Thanks for reading !

Look, I get it, they gotta get their revenue from somewhere. But the amount of ads I run into is absolutely ridiculous. I get an ad as soon as the game opens. Fine. But then I get another ad as soon as I click which type of game I want to play. Pretty annoying to get a double ad when I haven’t even played yet. But it gets worse. If I lose/time runs out/no more moves, it offers to let me watch an ad to keep going. That on it’s own isn’t so bad. Where it gets bad is when if I click no, it makes me watch an ad anyways for no reward, and then makes me watch ANOTHER ad after I get back to the home screen and click on another game option. Not to mention that every time I think I close an ad, it forces me to wait another 5 second to click another x to close it, and each ad will do this multiple times. It makes me click 3 or more separate arrows/x’s to close one ad. I understand they need revenue, but this is too much.

Oh and the sounds and music glitch often. Sometimes the sounds and voice will stop playing, or the music will play when it’s not supposed to. What I’ve mainly encountered is sounds and voice not playing if I pause and in zen mode I’ll have the ambient sounds on, pause, and then the music will overlap the ambient sounds.

I would really love this app if it weren’t for the highly intrusive ads. There are more user-friendly ways to get revenue.

Possibly one with less yellow gems??? There are a lot more yellow than any other color. It's not exactly my favorite but I have no choice but for it to be since it's all that falls down. And also I can't restore previous purchases. It’s been 5 years and for some reason, this game does absolutely everything possible to force my favorite gem to be yellow, which is by far my least favorite. Kinda ruins the game when it’s 99% yellow gems except when they could possibly be blown up by another color. Then it just doesn’t give any yellow gems. It’s so weird. Just remove that feature I guess. It would be more relaxing with more variety instead of forcing one color on you constantly through years and updates and different phones. I don’t want to play any new versions as I’m not too keen on having an unstoppable ad play after every move. That seems to be all these mobile games are.

* So now I come back to the game after a day and aaaaaaaallllllll my progress has been wiped again. This is a terrible game that needs to be removed from the app store, and I will be reporting it. No update in like a year, and I’m sure it was just a “bug fix” that didn’t actually fix any bugs. This game is a broken down shell of what it was around 2004.

Terrible, terrible, terrible game, with the extreme amount of yellow gems and all.