Arrows – Puzzle Escape

Love this version of mahjong! Been playing awhile. No problem with this game. Love love it! But despite rarely posting reviews. Digress. So putting this on every one of my games that I see the Candy Crush AD. They’ve lately been popping up on every game I play and they hold you prisoner past the little waiting line at the bottom to watch their stuff….then you try to exit “after” respectfully allowing them to show their stuff and they redirect you out of the game to the App Store so you are forced to escape “everything” to be back at candy crushes candy….and you just stare at it…looking at their candy forever. The other ad’s display a normal decent show and then let you decide yay or nay for now. Candy crush may be desperate. It makes me dislike them. And wouldn’t download there stuff simply due to BAD taste on their part for rigging up a prison hostage to watch there ad. Btw, before all this years ago I did download there game and it simply wasn’t for me. So, it’s not like I’ve never tried their game. Get it together Candy Crush. Only there ad so far is making me just stop playing my games and back out come back later when Candy Crush hopefully goes to sleep. Gee whiz. Like holding people staring at there ad forever would make “anybody” want them MORE. Isn’t the point to entice people with a pleasurable experience. Haha! Gotta laugh. Who thought of that brilliant idea?

I like this game but if you play it awhile you realize it could be improved. To play on your phone many puzzles do not fit entirely on your screen which means you have to move it around which in turn obscures other areas. The bigger the puzzle the more challenging. I like those but you can’t always pinch it small enough to see it in its entirety. I wish you could make it small enough to see all of it but keep the challenges of the bigger puzzles. Also, that often make it easier to make mistakes that you would normally see could you view the entire puzzle at once. I have small hands (fingers) and sometimes hit the wrong arrow line unintentionally. Because I sometimes have to have the puzzle as small as possible to see it all it is really difficult to hit the right arrow even with small hands. I would appreciate more size control to enlarge and reduce. Finally, unless I’m doing something wrong I wish you could label a level and get consistent puzzles within that challenge option. The way mine works I can get several in a row that are small and hardly a challenge. That is barely worth the effort of putting up with ads because of how fast you’re on to the next puzzle. Only a few come in that are considered hard or more challenging. I would like a way to select that range continually. I do enjoy this but would like it way better if these issues could be addressed.

I’m not a frequent gamer with the exception of my language learning app, but I decided to download and try this arrows game for points on a rewards app. I actually really like it. When you first download it, games start simple and become progressively more complex; but after you hit a certain level of complexity, what level you will get next becomes randomized. You get three chances (hearts) to make mistakes before the game stops you, but all you have to do to resume play is watch an ad. Every puzzle has a solution - you just have to be patient with yourself and find it. And even if you get stuck and can’t see it, there’s a hint button. The dotted grid behind the arrows helps you visualize the rows and columns of play. There’s no timer, so you can play at your own pace, even stopping for hours and then picking up where you left off. Since I’m always on a timer on my language app, it’s super nice to just play without a rushed feeling. You can sincerely lose track of time, though. There’s no clock in any of the screen corners, and you keep telling yourself you’ll stop “after the next one,” which I’m sure is designed that way absolutely on purpose. That’s my biggest beef with this game, but I’m a big girl who knows how to watch another clock or set a timer, so this game still gets 5 stars from me.