Snood Original Hack 1.0.41 + Redeem Codes

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.

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.

Developers have this need to develop, I get that. But sometimes things are good as they are. People play games like Snood for nostalgia, when you add to it, taking away the simplicity sometimes you ruin what made if work.

Make a simpler, cheaper version leave it in basic modes and .99 cents and I bet you will sell more to people who just want to fill time and enjoy a taste of the past.

This version is frustrating, cheats, and sets up situations that are not logically fair. There are patterns in all games, play awhile and you’ll see unrealistic patterns created like a casino ensuring the gambler always looses.

Why is this game so ugly. Not the graphics. Those are classic and take me back to playing the original. I mean the main menu. The interface. The awkwardly delayed sound effects. I get that it looks like an old game but it’s just an eyesore.

I’m not going to complain about the fact that the game has payment options. Freemium is just a reality with mobile games. What I don’t understand is how the game goes about it. Having to unlock easy mode? Having to unlock standard features? Sure 10 games is nothing, but it is when I’m not having fun. I’m got bored on game three. It just wasn’t worth it.

Knowing there’s a better, more fluid Snood on the App Store with classic graphics as an option makes this whole game look like a collection of poor decisions. It’s as though they tried to create that classic game aesthetic by reminding you how crummy old games used to be. The thing is the old Snood wasn’t crummy. It had charm. It was fun. This game is just intentionally gross design, obnoxious monetization, and a generally confusing mess. Why did you make it like this? Just, why?

I used to play Snood obsessively on my Mac, and was really sad when it stopped working with a new OS update many years ago. They updated later, but couldn’t find my registration, so I gave it up.

So I was really excited to see my old snood back. (The new version never really worked for me.)

The good: It’s pretty much the same old snood.

The bad: Controls don’t feel as precise somehow. Maybe it’s the size, maybe it’s the lack of a mouse, or maybe it’s that I no longer have tens of thousands of game’s worth of practice, but I’m not making the shots I used to. Also, there is a bit of a hair trigger, with it accidentally firing from time to time.

The ugly: The pricing. I can pay $5, and I’ve still got an ad supported game. Wait, aren’t ad supported games usually free? Plus, you’ve not really purchased the game; you still have to get tokens to play. $5 just unlocks some game features. Pay another buck and you can disable ads. But still need tokens.

What if you just want to own the game, like I did when I bought it back in the late 90’s for $15? It’s asking for $40. For a port from the 90’s? Seems a little high to me.

It was a fun bit of nostalgia. But I quickly ran out of tokens, and it’s just not a $40 game. Worth a download, but the costs are too high.

I’ve paid $20 for this game and am still seeing ads.

If you lose a game, you get the option to “play on,” or go back several steps and replay the game. This involves watching a loooong, repetitive ad, even in the paid version.

The makers have very cleverly placed the shooter on the same spot as the “play on” button, so if you lose and are not careful, you’ll end up hitting “play on” and getting the ad. There’s no way to cancel this. Even if you don’t want to replay the lost game, you HAVE to sit through the ad. This is ridiculous. I paid for an ad-free app.

There are bugs as well. When you hit the “change background” button during a game, it sometimes sets off the shooter instead.

It seems you can only change the background during a game; you can’t change it permanently for all games. The option in the main menu to change it doesn’t work.

Sometimes the shooter sticks, and you end up shooting many snoods at once when you don’t want to.

I love that this game is just like the classic one I remember, but please, fix the bugs. Make the background changeable universally.

Eliminate the ads for paid apps entirely, or move the “play on” button so that it’s not inadvertently pressed.

Honesty this game translates to mobile amazingly and it feels exactly like it did in my childhood. Aiming takes a bit of getting used to and everything is pretty tiny on my small iPhone SE but I have good eyes so it's not too much of an issue. There are ads but they're far less intrusive than comparable games. Best part is you can play an unlimited amount for free if you're willing to watch ads! The full registration price is too much for a mobile game but honestly that's not enough for me to remove a star since there is a free play option. I love it!

I love this game. My grandparents used to play version 2.2.1W for hours on end, and the SFX bring me back.

I understand that I'm a bit behind on the times, but the shoehorning of microtransactions into an arcade-style game from the nineties is an utter disappointment. And $40 for unlimited play? Are you mad? The full version of Snood costed less than fifteen dollars on the PC, a platform on which games actually tended to cost that much! The free version was way less restrictive on there, too.

The whole thing seems a bit unfinished, too. Puzzle is planned in a later update, which is fine. The aesthetic is all over the map, being a relic of times gone by being played on a modern screen with high-DPI. You got the classic blocky sprites next to stretched out textures and high-res Arial font. It feels like a flash game at some parts. The interface is not really optimized to be used on a mobile device. The "pow" sound when Snoods are eliminated is kinda off but I think this dates back to version 3. I would like more options, like the ability to disable the power-up Snoods.

Obviously this review is a combination of issues and nitpickery. With the price dropped and a couple of things corrected this would be a really solid game.

I used to be completely addicted to Snood on my Mac. When I got the email about the new IOS version, I was excited but also worried that it would turn into another addiction that I don’t have time for. Not to worry because it is just too frustrating to play for more than a few games. It is overly sensitive. It fires when I’m targeting and double-fires all the time. No matter how I try to make tiny light taps, I get stutter fire, sometimes several shots in a row. I was able to hack my way through Easy but with all the misfires there’s no point in going on. I’m disappointed but at least I don’t have to worry about spending hours playing Snood when I should be getting work done!

While this is an accurate recreation to best of my recollection, it could use a facelift to modernize the look and feel a bit. The opening screen and game selection screen look terrible. If more than 10 minutes were spent on creating those two screens I would be very surprised. The gameplay is fine, but some higher resolution graphics would be an improvement.

The absolute worst part of this game though is the ads. The ads are endless and take forever. Because of this I generally play one game and then quit, moving on to something more productive. I suppose that is a good thing!