Snood Original 4+

An old favorite, but too buggy

I loved this game back in ye olden days when it was developed for the PC/Mac. I want to keep loving it, but the version for iPad crashes and freezes WAY too often for it to be fun.
Sometimes it freezes and never loads. Sometimes it crashes and quits in the middle of a game. Unfortunately, I paid for the ad-free version. It would be nice to think that the developers would return the favor by debugging what must be relatively simple coding.
What a shame.
UPDATE: The developers reached out to me, which was nice of them. I haven’t responded because I’ve figured out that this app does NOT like landscape mode. It’s been working fine as long as I keep my iPad upright. It would be nice if it also worked in landscape orientation, but at least now I don’t feel ripped off, and I’ve bumped up my review by 2 stars, to 4 stars.

Developer Response ,

We would appreciate if you contact us at snood@snood.com so that we can address any crashes you are experiencing

Not worth my time :(

I hoped it would be just as much fun as the old PC original. The characters are the same and mechanics pretty much are the same and the tapping to shoot is great. But the first few levels are good and that’s it!.. as soon as you ‘unlock easy mode’ it goes from fun to just stupid!... at first you see the laser or whatever show you exactly where the ball will go. A tad easy but still fun. The faces are decent size and game play is entertaining. But then after you have fun with the first 3 levels and get to ‘easy’ there is no laser pointer and the faces are considerably smaller. Making it harder to even guess where you’re pointing. With a PC and mouse arrow even with out the laser pointer it was easier than trying to use my finger on a tiny screen. I read a bad review and figured I’d try it.

I also tried another one that is pretty different. Also called snood and it had a great review. Sadly I don’t have anything good to say about that one either.

Over all I like this one better but it goes from fun and playable to difficult pretty quick. Maybe if I played an iPad version with a stylus it would be easier.

Developer Response ,

Hi 'Urtinyfriend',
Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback.
If you have trouble seeing the snoods on the harder difficulties you can go back to child difficulty with bigger snoods by tapping the difficulty button on the main screen. You can also try the zoom feature by pressing the magnifying glass on the top of the screen while playing.
You will have a better experience playing this version on your iPad if you have trouble seeing the smaller snoods.
We hope this solves the issues you experienced and allows you to enjoy SNOOD on the road.
For more assistance please contact us at snood@snood.com

Paid $20 and still have to pay or watch ads...

Paid the full $20 registration fee and you’re still required to watch ads or buy gold bars to continue a puzzle game if you die. The first two times it happened, sucked it up and let the ad play. On the third time — I think I was on level 41 or so — paying for gold bars was my only option if I didn’t want to go all the way back to level one. Really, really disappointed. Give us a save option or something — at least for those of us who paid to support you — so we don’t have to pay *additional* money to go all the way back to level one.