Manor Matters 9+

Good Game but a notable issue with Levels.

The game is great. There’s always more to do and it’s not just a simple Candy Crush-Like game. There are no ads and the rare bonus games are interesting. But the Hard and Super Hard normal levels rather than the “find” levels are not hard in difficulty for the same reason as other hard games. Rather than just being a challenging mini game, the level seems like it’s relatively easy but gives you very little moves compared to what you’d normally need to complete said level. So rather than feeling like any progress or learning curve is needed it ends up feeling like a level you can only win by chance. This frustrating since at times you can lose simply because you did not get any special items and these levels are impossible without them.

The Find levels have a different issue all together however. The lack of definitions of context. It’s very common to lose a find level simply because you don’t know what a word means or a word is referring to something it normally would not. I feel there should be the choice to click the word and see a definition or the word used in a sentence. The time should pause for the latter but not the former.

There is also the move suggestions. They are extremely annoying for people especially those with Misokinesia. I wish there was a setting to turn them off especially since they happen within 2 seconds of not moving so they are extremely constant.

Almost Perfect

This game is my favorite and has been for quite some time now! My only REAL complaints (maybe this is just for native English speakers) are two things:

1. If one of the items I’m searching for is candy - for the love of god, please don’t put two types of candy in the picture! I often see a combo that includes either a box of chocolates, a candy cane, and/or a lollipop. I have to figure out which “candy” is the right choice, and it could be any one of the three.

2. Things like a) “cone” shouldn’t mean that it could be an ice cream cone OR a pine cone. I may be in the minority here, but I would never understand what was meant in real life if someone called either of those items just “cone” b) “lily” should just mean an actual lily (like it does on some levels), and not used for a fleur-de-lis. Just because (I think) the literal translation of fleur-de-lis is “flower of lily” doesn’t mean everyone knows what it translates to in English and also that you need to look for something that’s not the literal lily flower. *A side note: items like bow, money, and bat make sense, though. If I’m talking with someone about any of those things, I generally wouldn’t further specify in conversation that I meant gift bow, baseball/animal bat, or break down money into saying coins or bills.

I like it

But I don’t love it. To much of the game is led by chance (special moves on extremely hard levels that really are not that hard but you can do it only in a few moves, how dare I say? Luck is to much of play here trust me I’ve redone levels a doz times + and some of it and to much of it is left to chance. My real prob is when it decides to move your pieces around- and it’s on one of those super hard levels … I’m playing it like chess knowing my next move or so if this or that remains similar and bam everything’s flipped- or the arbitrary suggestions to not helpful points. Let us turn these weird aspects off. Lol and I mean setting a game difficulty is that to hard? Genuinely I don’t want to do those extra hard levels and it causes me to put my game down because I run out of lives right? Well when you pick it up 4 times more and are stuck waiting on luck and a couple days pass because your playing when you can well guess what? That’s less time playing your game. I’d be playing quiet often but it’s miserable sitting on the same part for days and sometimes whole game goes down for a week then like it’s not the goal here right? Let us play and not have a game set by chance w minimal turns lol and minimal lives etc as for the week and find I mean sometimes you could use a better word to mean something- I know it’s fun to be fancy or old world but like sometimes …. I don’t want to do a level over because what’s a this or that until it’s shown to you after

Developer Response ,

Hi! Some Match-3 levels can seem quite challenging, however, none are impossible to pass. All you need to do to win is to check the game field carefully and plan your moves beforehand. Your rewards for hard and super-hard levels are significantly bigger, too. These tips will help you get through tricky levels: https://bit.ly/3fV9biH. There are also some objects with specific names to make the game educational. You can always hit the Pause button and search for the word in question on the Internet — this way, you'll know what to look for. Best of luck!