To be honest, I have played a lot of merger games in the past few years. From the earliest "Merge Magic" to the later "Merge Dream" and "Merge Dragon", I am indeed a bit tired of aesthetics. But this "Candy Crush Saga" still made my eyes shine when I first started playing it.
Let me first talk about why I think it is worth a try. First of all, the picture style is not the kind of tacky and gaudy cartoon, but a candy wonderland with a bit of hand-drawn texture. The colors are soft and comfortable to look at. This is better than many similar games, and I don't want to brag about it. The UI of some merge games is simply eye-catching. Secondly, the merging feedback is very smooth, with small animations when you click and drag, and there is no lag, which is rare among small domestic manufacturers.
But I want to focus on its advantages compared with similar games. The biggest difference is the "sense of purpose." Many merging games just ask you to keep merging until your backpack explodes and the grid is full, and you no longer know what to do. "Candy Crush Saga" gives a clear plot line: lift the curse, open up a new land, and save your friends. This gives the merging an incentive, unlike some games where it's purely cramming.
Let's talk about the shortcomings. To be honest, the early guidance is a bit long, and there are inevitably some "stuck progress" designs in the free mode - if you want to unlock a new area and you lack energy or a certain prop, you have to wait or watch ads. However, it does not have mandatory krypton gold points, which is much more conscientious than some games that pretend to be free and suddenly pop up in the middle of the game to ask you to recharge dozens of dollars. After all, the developer is Shenzhen Yunbu Interactive Entertainment. I checked and they used to make more casual games. This time it is a good new attempt.
I feel nostalgic and think of the days when I played "Diamond Love" and "Zuma" in the Saipan era. At that time, the games were simple and pure, with no ads or in-app purchases. In this day and age, it's rare to find a merger game that I'm willing to sit down and play for an hour. If you also like the gameplay of slowly organizing and expanding step by step, you might as well try this. It's free anyway, so there's no loss in downloading😌