The game is fun but…

So it’s pretty clear that this was a game that was initially built as a freemium game that they then switched to being a non-freemium game but kept all the freemium aspects. the RG seems to be geared towards picking bubbles that are attached regardless of how close the bubbles are to you. This effectively kind of forces you to use the “cheats“ that are provided by the game that will require in-game currency to use. So there’s a feeling of artificial difficulty built into the game. Additionally, the game is constantly breaking. You could have had a great run on on one of the special stages that happened once a day, but the game will suddenly freeze when it tries to load after you win, you will lose all of that money that you won because the game will just effectively restart and ignore the progress you made. So it constantly feels like you’re running uphill. So if you choose to buy the game, I’d strongly suggest play it with the data and Wi-Fi off. It doesn’t fix the freemium aspects of the game, but it does help mitigate the broken loading issues of the game.

How do you save your progress?

I don't have a lot of time for video games so when I play I like to save my progress. This game exists on the Japanese iTunes Store as puzzle bobble and you can save your progress via the ubiquitous LINE app but on this American version of the game that function is lost. I've been playing the game for years and I would hate to see my progress wiped Away by an accidental clearing of my iPhone. They could easily build a Facebook function in the app to save your progress with your Facebook account? There's just got to be a way to save your progress? You really should merge this app with the Japanese version and have one app that does it all for you with all of the features of the game available to every player regardless of country... The internet made the World International so why can't this game have an international mindset. Americans aren't that stupid to accept a less than standard port to a great game.?? You can find me playing the line puzzle Bobble version of this game I will skip this game until it gets a save feature and a commitment from the Publishers to keep the game up. This game was called Bust A Move Islands not too long ago. Your fans have a memory longer than 10 minutes!! please reward the hardcore bustamove fans

A lot of fun, but very grindy

This game will be fun for fans of the bust a move franchise. There are lots of levels to keep you playing and tons of characters/special items to unlock for use in game. The main problem is earning coins. There seem to be about 30 characters to unlock and in order to unlock a premium character at random you must spend 30,000 coins(which takes quite a bit of time to gain. The problem is that the game unlocks the same few characters. After a few weeks of playing and unlocking characters I must have spent 30k twenty times to unlock characters but I keep getting the same 4 characters. So instead of spending 6000 coins and leveling up a low tier character, the game takes your 30,000 coins and levels up your low tier character. There are 1000 levels you can purchase but I am incredibly bored after 270. Unlocking characters seems to be the only progression to make but it is incredibly grindy and you never know what character you will get because RNG. Played for a month but have no desire to continue and I'm a long time fan of Bust-A-Move. Imo this game stinks because of the RNG factor in character progression. Edit: I went two weeks without playing this game and only collecting the daily bonuses. I finally got 30,000 coins from this so I decided to unlock another 30,000 character. I got a duplicate character again. I have uninstalled this game.

Fun game but need to pay for more levels

When I pay for a game, even if it’s just a few bucks, I expect to be able to play the game. After 270 levels, you have to pay $1 to get another 90 levels. I would rather have to pay for the coins to buy power ups than have to pay for levels. Or, let me pay with the in game coins to unlock more levels. I love this game but can’t justify paying more money to keep playing. Will continue playing other games that don’t nickel and dime me to death. In game currency is easy to come by, so that’s a good thing if you have the cash to keep buying levels after playing 90.

Online connectivity mars fun game

You have to be connected to the internet in order to launch the game. It checks for a connection at various points in the game; and stops the game if it doesn't find it. It’s a good game if you always have a connection, but frustrating if you don't. YMMV. Another problem is that it lowers the volume of your music, even if you have SFX and background music turned off. I’m sure that this is a minor gripe for most players, but for me it’s a deal breaker. I haven’t played this in months for this reason alone.

Excellent!

Brings back old memories! People need to relax on the downloading data. It only happened to me a few times in the beginning. I have a 7 plus so that might make a difference. Anyways, having a blast with this gem! Edit: What's up with downloading the data again? It didn't bother me at first but now It's happening way too often after the last update. It's still an awesome game but I changed my score to a four because of this.

Too Difficult

The developers have made unlocking certain characters far too complicated. Players are forced to grind for around 30,000 coins, which takes an excessive amount of time. On top of that, in-app purchases only allow gamers to buy maps. Why aren’t we, as players, given the option to purchase other content—like characters—instead of just maps?

Obnoxious across the board

I have seriously been playing this off and on for over a year. I’ve seen few to no updates really and on top of that? EVERY TIME I OPEN THE APP IT ASKS ME TO SIGN INTO MY ITUNES ACCOUNT. Why? I’m already signed in. No other app is having this issue. Additionally? Why would this game even need that? I’m signed into Game Center. I’m signed into everything. Why is this an issue? What’s the angle? I paid for this intending to relax. Instead it is giving me more stress. This isn’t worth the cost. This isn’t like the Bust A Move games I remember from childhood. At all. It’s literally an entirely different year! Why hasn’t this been updated?!

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