I’m a paid user of this game. I enjoy it, but I’m annoyed that I paid to remove the ads, but the designers chose to remove only some of the ads. It is still necessary to watch an ad in order to get a continue. I paid my money. I don’t want to watch a single ad. Ever. At all.
Also there’s an annoying bug that sometimes causes only six digits of scores to display at a time. I routinely score 7-digit scores so this is irritating.
On the design front, there needs to be an option to disable speech elements for these reasons:
1. They’re corny and I don’t like them. (Purely subjective)
2. They are inconsistent with the visuals because they are in diverse languages, while the visual “speech bubbles” on the same characters making the sounds (a) are always in English and (b) do not always say the same thing as the audio, even when the languages are consistent.
3. Because there are visual speech bubbles, the audio is completely unnecessary. This is evidenced by the fact that a falling astronaut has a “Hey!” Speech bubble which is never accompanied by audio; the speech sound plays only when the astronaut is rescued. It’s better without the audio.
4. Unlike the visual speech bubbles which are fun and quaint, the audio has the feel of something that was just stuck in because they could. It doesn’t really fit.