Color Block Jam 12+

I really enjoy this game, I like that it’s a challenge and sometimes takes more then one life to beat the level. I’m nearing the 500 mark.. The ads just changed drastically. They use to consist of ones that you can skip after 5-10 Seconds. This most recent wave of ads are a solid minute. If this doesn’t change I’m going to stop playing the game and move to another game. I don’t mind a 30 second ad if I’m gaining an extra life. It just to get to the next level. This is insane amounts of time.

I play games to have fun and to relax. There is no relaxing in this game. This game not only adds timers to every round but adds pieces that blow up if you’re not fast enough. I constantly feel frantically panicked while trying to solve levels as absolutely quickly as possible. Even if the level is not all that challenging, seeing that tick tick tick tick ticking down of the counter and tick tick tick tick ticking down of the bomb that’s about to explode even sooner stresses me out. It’s not about thinking through an intelligent solution, it’s about flinging pieces around as fast as you possibly can. This is just stressful and in no way fun for me. And if you’re gonna have these ridiculous timers, why are you also limiting our lives? I have only five chances to move pieces meaninglessly while trying to suss out a solution and then I’m just done, I guess. Are they imagining that I am having such a great time with this stress that I will pay more money for more lives? I am on a hunt for a puzzle like this that isn’t about stress and rushing and panic. Hopefully I will find one someday. I absolutely do not want a game to be simple or easy, but I prefer to use my brain to solve it. I’m not sure why they think this is fun for anyone. Stressing people out does not inspire them to spend money.

Like the title says, this is ALMOST the perfect game. The concept is great, the shredding of the blocks is very satisfying, I would literally play this for hours except for the fact that every. single. level. is timed. All of them. Most of them you are not given enough time by far, which is only complicated later when you start getting things like time bomb pieces thrown at you. It really gets irritating when you’re immersed in the puzzle and right when you’re on the verge of figuring it out the timer dies and you have to start from square one. This plus the limited lives means I stop playing after 10-15 minutes instead of the hours that I want to spend on it.

I get why they do it, they want to drive people to drop money on coins and power ups so they’ll be able to get through the level. But it leaves a bad taste on an otherwise awesome game. Just sprinkle them in there on harder levels, it’s ridiculous for every level to be timed and to give a ridiculously complex ‘very hard’ puzzle only 35 seconds to be solved. I’m almost at the point of deleting the app because it’s more frustrating than fun now.