It’s everything that is wrong with the mobile gaming industry, which is why it’s hard, in good conscience, to support and recommend these games. But while there is no denying that, there is also no denying that the game’s business model is absolutely horrible and is essentially designed to annoy you and your friends into either paying or stop playing altogether. The original Candy Crush Saga is a fun game and so is Candy Crush Soda Saga. He also speaks far too suggestively while talking about is essentially candy and soda. The guy who said things like “SUGAR CRUSH” is back, and is now saying things like “SODALICIOUS”. The updated sounds for the explosions and animations are decent though. I notice a lot of low resolution assets on the iPad, which wasn’t the case with the original Candy Crush Saga, which was well made overall. The colors are overbearing on AMOLED displays, but that’s hardly the game’s fault. The colorful visuals make the game look nice, especially on high resolution displays. They also have some new animations and some of the candies have received a slight redesign. Graphics and SoundĬandy Crush Soda Saga looks similar to Candy Crush Saga but the menus have a different design. Somehow they haven’t managed to figure out a way to send requests to only those contacts who connected the account with the game, even though it knows exactly who they are. But it also sends requests for lives and to unlock levels to ALL your Facebook contacts, even those who have never heard of the game. Once you connect the game to Facebook, it lets you sync your progress across all the devices where you are logged in, which is a good thing. The begging to Facebook friends part is particularly annoying to everyone involved, even your friends who don’t play the game. Even worse even though the game has over 140 levels, the levels are split into sections and once you complete a section you again need to either beg your Facebook friends or pay real money. You can also instantly get more lives by begging your Facebook friends, spending in-game currency (gold bars) and if you exhaust those you have to spend real money to get them. Once you exhaust those, the game suggests you wait for the lives to refresh, which takes 30 minutes for each life.
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This means that the game is free to download but you only get five lives. The thing that annoys most people about these games is the annoying freemium model. Admittedly, the game is addictive, and you find yourself playing it again and again until you complete the level.īut the gameplay was never a problem. Other than that, the game is exactly the same as the standard Candy Crush Saga. Another new feature is combining seven candy into the new Coloring Candy, which unlocks some of the locked candies and changes it to the same color as itself. There is also generally a lot more fish in this game, at least till the point I played. You can make a grid of four candies of the same color to make one of those fish thingies, which previously had to be purchased before a level. In some levels you have to match candy next to the honey to release the trapped bears. Some levels can only be completed when you raise the level of soda till the top of the level and to do that you have to get rid of all the soda bottles in the level, which can be done by matching them with other candies.Īnother new feature is candy bears which are trapped behind ice and you have to match the candy on top of the ice to break it and free the bears behind. The couple of new tricks here include soda bottles that you have to match with similarly colored candies. GameplayĬandy Crush Soda Saga is more or less identical to the original game.
Having played the original for a while (back when everyone else did) I thought I’d give this new one a try. The latest one is Candy Crush Soda Saga, which is a slight improvement on the original. Over a period of time developer has come up with several clones of the game in an effort to also clone the success of the original but none of them have taken off the way the original did (this may have something to do with none of them being particularly different to make anyone want to play them). It is the second most profitable game on the mobile platform right now and earns millions through in-app purchases.
Love it or hate it, there is no denying that Candy Crush Saga is massively popular and an obscene number of people still play it every day.