Candy Crush Saga 4+

First the game is fun and sime of the new stuff is cool. But it’s incredibly frustrating that I can’t opt out of the Candy Royale. All of the animation is annoying to wait on. Then with each update, we lose really neat boosters that we used to win in the previous version. Now they’re just timed boosters. I don’t want to win 5 minutes. I want the booster to use when I need it. It used to be at the end of the “six first daily games” episodes that we would get a UFO. Now it’s times use od the UFO and you can barely use it in the little time given. Big loss. And what’s worse is all the Candy Royale animation takes up the few useless minutes of time we do get. Thank you for fixing the mixing of the stripes and wrapped which had turned into explosions for a while. But the wrapped with wrapped explosions don’t seem to clear as many candies. Also, lately the fish target all my boosters and are starting to hurt rather than help. And lastly, please bring back the strip at the bottom where you can see all your friends that have played the level and give lives to them. It was a nice feature. Just saying that I notice each time I get an update all I end up with is LESS of something I really liked and dread getting the update. I want real boosters not just limited time with them. Don’t keep taking stuff away cause at some point the disappointment and frustration will make me not want to come back.

To be honest, it’s the only game app I have besides Scrabble. I have played Angry Birds and occasionally have tried other games but have been playing this quite a while now. I like puzzles and to me this is a puzzle game. You can definitely get better at using the boosters and the design and ingredients in each puzzle.

I get the frustrations of some reviewers, but my biggest issue is the constant pop up windows trying to get you to buy something or participate in some extra feature. Some of us just want to play the game.

As far as spending money to pass levels or buy boosters, pay attention here: I am on level 13,407 and have never, not one single time, bought anything. I haven’t paid a dime for any extras like boosters or lives. I have been a tick on one level for several months before. I have passed 30 levels in a day before. Still, never cost me a penny. I used to be at the point where I would finish the levels and have to wait for updates to get new ones, but the levels got harder and I didn’t play much and got behind again. Still zero $$ ever paid. If they had an option to pay a few bucks and see fewer ads and pop ups I’d do that probably.

I love this game so much, but my rating is 2 stars for a lot of reasons. Reason 1: This game wants to take your money. The normal levels can be pretty hard because of that reason. At least it’s not like soda crush where it’s just made to be a money trap. This is just a thing for king games in general. Reason 2: Inappropriate ads. This and reason 3 are the reasons why my review is 2 stars and why this game is not for children. Sometimes, the ads that play are pornographic and disgusting. You should be aware that this is for kids too. This game is disguised as a children’s game. Reason 3: It’s woke. This game involves politics with pride events. You should remove anything propaganda related from your games for good. This is not the only game that has pride stuff. Soda crush, jelly crush, and farm heroes all pride events in their games. Reason 4: Portrait mode only. You can no longer play in landscape mode. Bring back landscape mode please. Not everyone plays on a phone. Sorry for all of those who play this game on a tablet. It’s harder to hold because if you’re charging it, the charger is in your way. I guess king is now expecting everyone to play on a mobile phone now:( Edit: The new sound effects are also not a good change. I always hated the soda crush “divine” sound that was in jelly and friends saga. And now it’s in this game too!? It is so annoying and drives me nuts. And the other sounds don’t sound like candy, they sound like bubbles