Has potential but needs a lot of work and updating.
Sun Sep 12 2021 CiaraRoolsThe game has potential but it needs work. I’m not gonna lie, I paid 2.99 to remove the ads because they were driving me nuts. The levels were too easy so I got pretty far in the game. At some point, they just keep repeating the levels. Not only that, but they will explain the same “challenges” (frozen rope, bombs) over and over again and have you start fresh with those. Of course when those challenges are first introduced early on though, they weren’t explained. In addition, the special prize presents stop opening at a certain point pretty on and the trophy challenge levels disappear. There’s also a glitch where sometimes the twisted ropes just twist through each other to untwist without actually untwisting. When there are two layers added, it also becomes very glitchy on which rope is in front when you move them.
Again, fun game, has potential, but caps pff with fun and variety by level 200. The developers absolutely could keep expanding and creating new challenges but it seems they mostly created the game for ad revenue which is a bummer.
Has potential; too many Ads
Sat Jun 19 2021 Rory1963After playing for 2 seconds I was asked to rate this game. I declined but after 17 levels in less than one minute of play time there were more than 12 minutes of ads and delays.
The game has potential but if you mind waiting for play time this is not the game for you. The concept of a “Free Game” has really become twisted by online game apps and the advertising companies that convince players that the information they collect about us is being used for our benefit. They, the data miners, collect our information so they can sell your info to others so they can tailor marketing to you with the highest probability of selling you something, whether they direct you to another site that gives them money for your time on their website or they sell you information or merchandise.
I’ve heard that each person’s information on Facebook is worth a little more than $12 to Facebook. I wish I could remember where I heard that morsel of information but my memory is not as good as it was.
It’s up to you to determine what your information is worth. What is most valuable to you? Would you rather pay money or time for something you desire?
Time is one of my most valuable assets; it beats out money and possessions. Think about it. What is most valuable to you?
Ads Galore, Confusing
Mon Dec 07 2020 PeleanI originally saw an ad for this game through another games's *voluntary* in-app ads, and thought I'd check it out. It was a huge disappointment is many ways. A big turnoff was simply the visual layout. The main screen in cluttered with ads and some vague icons, with the tangled ropes in the middle, with no explanation of anything. I wasn't quite sure what was part of the app or what was part of an ad at times.
Please believe all the reviews warning of too many ads! Despite the warnings, I was shocked with how much screen space ads took up while playing the game, in addition to numerous ads between games (levels?). One small ad was placed right on the "bar" the tangled ropes were hanging from, making it difficult to avoid touching it. Not to mention, the graphics (perhaps due to whole cluttered screen) were not nearly as nice, sharp, and clean as shown in the AppStore photos. Yes, I am playing on a newer, up-to-date phone.
Finally, the game lacks any instruction, tutorial and/or intro when you open the game the first time. I was already familiar with these type of tangled rope logic games, and though the objective may seem obvious, a basic tutorial should have available, in the settings or otherwise. The rope logic game itself has potential, but not this particular app unless it undergoes a major overhaul. A 1-star review overstates my opinion of this game. I do NOT recommend!
Fun but...
Wed Jul 28 2021 lets vote🇺🇸Ok this game looked really fun on the ad so I decided to download it. I played for an hour or so and was getting into it. I loved it but there was just so many ads. So I decided to just ignore and keep playing so I was playing but the same ad over and over kept coming back on again and again and again and by that point I had gotten tired of it, so that was the first problem. The other problem was that it was SO and I mean SO easy and I like my stuff to be easy but this was just TOO easy! I got to level like 50 in like five minutes. So I was about to delete it cause it was just a waste of time and it wasn’t to fun, but I decided to give it one more chance. So I kept playing and then I think it was just a glitch but I accidentally clicked on remove ads and then I tried to press cancel but it wouldn’t work and I tried everything but it came to having to turn my phone off and so I wanted to do an experiment so I pressed remove ads again and then it did it again so I had to turn my phone off AGAIN but I mean all the way off not just turn off the power button but swipe the button that says like turn phone off or whatever. So by that point I just decided to delete the game, so yeah I don’t think I will be downloading this again. But anyways bye!
Only if you are young, with perfect vision and neuromuscular System
Thu Jun 11 2020 Supuflourous FlounderI’m 73. My vision is less than perfect. I have a tremor in my hand. These make this game nearly impossible to play. Some levels are timed. To move what I need to move, I must move carefully. Nearly each time I touch a rope, my hand tremor makes it come up and before I move my hand away, t have done another touch and it is back down again. This makes it nearly impossible to do the “complete in N moves” levels, and contributes significantly to my failure to “complete in N seconds” levels. When I hit the first “complete in N seconds” level, I gave up after about ten tries.
The intrusion of 30-second mandatory ads before each “scene”, with no way to skip them, is truly annoying. They may think that “if we annoy them enough, they will pay our overpriced subscription rate”, but the real result is some users react with a one-star review (we can’t make it 0, and this game requires negative stars), and simply delete the app. Which is what I have done. These games should have ADA compliance options, such as “no timed levels” and “no counted levels”. I am not playing it to compete, I’m playing it to challenge my mental acuity. If the rope goes up-and-down quickly, then it is hand tremor and should be ignored. I’d give it -2 stars, for its combination of obnoxious ads and its assumption of perfect vision and a perfect neuromuscular system.
Could be so much better
Tue Jun 22 2021 El paso croneIts reasonably challenging at times - enough to be entertaining but not requiring a lot of concentration - and it is fun most of the time …BUT (1) there are no instructions to assist with understanding the process or tools or even how they become available, how to earn more, etc. (2) there is no way to eliminate the annoying ads both the ones that clutter the screen or the ones that you are forced to view to get your reward at every level nor can you mute them meaning the game cannot be played around other people (3) there is no way to purchase tools (4) there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the stars awarded for a completion - not time or moves or complexity - nothing discernable (5) once you have enough stars for one tool the location says ‘open’ and the star counter disappears so there is no way to gauge progress towards more tools (6) the extra anchor only adds to the right side and sometimes the left would be preferable (7) it could be more challenging with more ropes but that would require additional buttons/anchors and options that do not exist. (8) whatever is running in the background keeps locking up the screen at critical times costing points and tools Frankly, it is a good idea that has been very poorly executed.
Bugs and Pop Ups
Sun Jun 11 2023 Pollo DoloGame is bugged for the trophy levels. End up spending in game money to redo them just for them to not work at all. Also paid for the no ads version, but unfortunately there are so many pop ups for other in game events that it’s basically like ads. Can’t go from level to level without getting blasted with all these in game event ads. The controls are kind of bad. Sometimes you’ll press a rope end and place it somewhere just for it to go back to the original location. Doesn’t use up a try fortunately but still extremely annoying to pick it back up to place it in the correct position. Also you need to spend in game currency to restart a level. Extremely annoying when you want to pass the levels with 3 stars. So you’re left with the option of either using your in game currency, restarting the game, or passing the level and going back into the level. However, once you pass it it won’t give you the option to replay the level. Takes you back to the map and just pushes up to the next level so you have to scroll down to the level press on it and press play. Usually I spend $4 to take off ads and enjoy the game for a couple weeks to a month before I just get bored but with this game I’m just annoyed to even play it. 🤷🏻♂️
Fun, but slightly boring!
Sat Jul 02 2022 Have it be funAt first, when I saw this app, I was like: Oh Wow! 🤩this has gotta be the BEST Game ever!!! And so obviously, I downloaded it.
Right away it gave me a very easy first level. And right after that, it gave me a very. long. ad. The game has an ad EVERY ‘STINKIN LEVEL!! And for all of you guys who could be on an older device, I feel sorry for you. Because even if it’s 4 years old,it glitches like CRAZY!!! And when the ad is done,it just sits there with absolutely no “X” TO CLICK OUT OF IT! 😤 I don’t know, it could just be my IPad, but it’s very glitchy, has too many ads, and one more thing I want to talk about. It’s something about the actual game this time. Ok so, I hate how it only gives you limited moves, It’s really dumb to me, because what if I mess up and I want to put it back on a really hard level? Well I’ll tell you! It take s away a move! And at some point you’ll probably run out of moves, and have to do the whole level over again! I’m sorry this was so long but thanks for reading through till the end. I hope this helps! (Editors I Hope you read this)
Well!! Different options would be better
Sun Sep 06 2020 Lou MshI see you already have a lot of comments about the ads! I completely agree with all that I read so I won’t repeat. I have found no value at all in the “coins” that it says you earn, using them to purchase extra turns would give them some actual value, increasing the coins earned for the double, more for the triple & more yet for the quadruple would give the game a bit more challenge. Increasing the number of ropes in levels would also add interest to the game. I also agree with the 10 yr old who complained about the inappropriate ads. This is a game that while it could be of interest to children, would never be allowed for my children. Bathroom cartoons-yuck! Teenage girl that has given herself away for free asking someone to fix her life after being abandoned? How about fostering things that help kids learn to balance their checkbook, or figure out how much they can spend on some desired object, to learn how they will use percentages in real life, how fractions work, basically games that, while a lot of fun, are also a learning challenge. Kids & parents would be much more likely to even purchase such a game.
Good potential but ultimately disappointing
Sun Jan 30 2022 SkinnyPandaI really liked this game at first. But I went ahead and paid the $2.99 because the ads are beyond ridiculous! You had to watch one to do practically anything and everything and many didn’t have the option to mute!
once the ads were removed it was a lot more fun but then it became incredibly repetitive with many levels being the EXACT same. Then every so often it will launch a series where it explains how Bombs work (which by the time you’re at level 100 you’ve already seen multiple times. And then it’s the EXACT same two levels over and Over again!
There is a LOT of good potential here with adding more anchor points, ropes, etc but they don’t do it. I’m on level 553 and feel like I’ve been seeing the same levels over and over and over again. There’s probably only around 100 actual levels that just repeat and a lot are ridiculously easy. I got up into the 500’s over a weekend.
But I think like another reviewer said they care more about the ad revenue than they do the game, which is rather disappointing.
