So yeah, there’s ads on top of ads on top of ads, but by this point I expect that from this sort of “free” game. Thing is, I mostly like it enough to pay to remove them, but I didn’t trust that it would actually remove all the ads, and reading other reviews, I was right.
The game isn’t well balanced, it’s mostly super easy but in a mindless way I actually enjoy? …until it’s not, like some of the higher challenge levels that as far as I can tell 100% cannot be completed in the number of moves you’re given, requiring, guess what, watching ads to earn more moves. But there’s no build up to that, the challenge level before I’ll finish easily with 3 moves left, the one after I’ll have 7 moves left with no trouble, the one in the middle, I use up all my lives and have to try later and the only way I can see to beat it ever is by “buying” more moves. It’s not a slow build up of difficulty, it’s a random ad-grab. (Which also definitely won’t be alleviated if you “pay to remove ads” so that adds to the why-bother?)
Like I said though, those things are pretty typical for games of this type, but what I wasn’t prepared for is how incredibly fast this game runs down my battery, like waaaaay faster than any other game or app I can think of off the top of my head. So if you want to play, you might want to make sure you’re plugged in the whole time, or at least very close to a charger because you’ll need it sooner than later.