Tennis Clash：Sports Stars Game 12+

This game is one of the most fun games I have ever played and is very, very enjoyable, but there are a few bugs that I have noticed and are pretty annoying. (1) For starters, when I connected to Facebook, it used my Facebook profile picture as the same one for tennis clash without permission, and afterwards when I disconnected Facebook from Tennis Clash through Facebook as well as the game, my profile picture was still not changeable, and when I changed my pfp on Facebook, it for some reason (even though the game was disconnected from Facebook) changed to my new profile picture on Facebook. This worries me about the security and information taken from us when connecting anything to the game. Something that could be changed to fix this issue is maybe allow users to change their profile picture regardless of whether they have connected to Facebook or not, and if a user has disconnected from Facebook, the apps removes any profile pictures associated with the user’s Facebook account. (2) The coins earned section in the profile section has a bug for sure. In that section, it says my total coins earned is 960, but then it says my current amount of coins is 5,548. This seems pretty off. (3) This is just advice, but maybe there could be a system where users create accounts using an email and can also change their pfp regardless. Hopefully these issues are fixed in the near future.

This is a really fun game to play, but the progression in developing your tennis player characters is slow, can be costly if you let it, and more than anything the current glitches are annoying. The current annoying glitches include: (1) sometimes you hit a clear winner that undoubtedly went in and the game will still award the point to the other player for no apparent reason; (2) similarly, sometimes when you hit your first serve instead of having a fault called and getting to hit a second serve, the game will just give the point to the other player; (3) sometimes when you play in the back court (which is often necessary when you get matched against other players with an insanely higher and untouchable skill level) the game collapses/closes when you flick your finger to hit the ball, with the result being that you miss your shot, the point goes to the other player, you have to rush to relaunch or call up the game screen again so you can continue play, and when you do your character gets stuck and can’t move and if it’s your serve then the next time you serve the ball the serve will go flying off in some bizarre unintended direction thereby giving you a fault and wasting an entire service attempt. These are big glitches that definitely need to get fixed.

There are lots of good things in this game like the controls and graphics/animation, but there are other things in the game that need to be fixed before they become too much for people to deal with and they delete the game! Top of the list: Match making. At first I was getting well balanced opponents and things were looking up, but before I could praise the game for it’s fairness in match making, things turned down south(for me, of course). After my first 10-15 games, I was constantly being matched against players 2x to 3x my skill level. The result was me getting obliterated every match and getting frustrated. It’s really not right when I am put up against an opponent who can blast the ball at the speed of light while my player is crawling slower than a snail trying to make a return. Your mismatched opponents are lighting fast who can hit the ball at unthinkable speeds while your helpless slow poke player is watching them celebrate after embarrassing you. The other thing, although not as big of a deal, that’s taking the fun away from the game is that there are too many prize bags/boxes to pay attention to. Just have one prize bag feature instead of presenting overwhelming amounts because the main menu is cluttered with so many prize features. The biggest issue that needs attention is matchmaking by far. Overall It’s a great game with lots of room for improvement. I will update my rating to 5 stars when matchmaking is taken care of.