Jewel Match Twilight 3 Collector's Edition

It's good but nothing entirely unique.

I feel like the blocks actively hate you, because nothing I need drops anywhere near where I need them, and matching pieces near the spots I need just makes things worse. *sighs* Sadly, not for me.

+ gut funktionierendes 3-Match Game + Eigenheiten gegenüber anderen 3-Match Games, also Abwechslung + Herausforderung zwischen Zeit und Zügen wählbar -Fenstergröße nicht beliebig wählbar - mag einige der Errungenschaften nicht (Wallpaper einstellen, Züge pro Zeit) Unterschiede zum ersten Jewel Match Twilight: + Übersichtlicher und moderner (eher ein allgemeiner Eindruck) - erstes Jewel Match Twilight war viel umfassender (mehr Bonusgames) Fazit: hat mal Spaß gemacht, aber gerade durch die feste Fenstergröße hat es nicht mein Haupt-Daddel-Spiel abgewechselt

I have come back to Jewel Match Twilight 3 with the advent of another Halloween. I find the game just so atmospheric for this time of the year. I've actually already finished the game (including the extra levels) once, so this visit to the Twilight zone (not to be confused with the TV series) is just for fun and giggles. It's engaging enough to deserve another run through. I'm also leaving this review in the hope that it will encourage the developers to perhaps make a Jewel Match Twilight 4. I'd very much welcome that. Do yourself a favour and get this game.

Unique fun game

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review: 5/10[/url]. This desktop Match-3 game is a bit different from the standard mobile match-3 games. No ads and no micro transactions are one welcome change. And having much larger levels (and correspondingly more moves) was an interesting change of pace. Since the game doesn’t rely on selling you items, there’s also no sprinkling of absurdly hard levels, either. Indeed, even on hard difficulty I was able to finish almost all of the first 40 levels without retrying (but I came close to losing several of them), so the difficulty seemed reasonable if a bit casual. But my rating is still pretty low. Why? Because the match-3 doesn’t feel very strategic and the gameplay rarely involves puzzling out what the best move is. In part this is because some of its common game dynamics are random – like what kind of bonus object you get for matching more than 3 items. Plus many levels rely on “atomic” charges, which randomly destroy nearby objects. Finally, while you can make combo moves, a good percentage of special mechanics (such as the “atomic charges”) are only activated by the initial match, not any following combo matches. I think it comes down to the game being designed for an ultra casual audience, and actively avoiding design choices that would encourage planning ahead and strategic choices. But those are the exact reasons I enjoy the match-3 genre; take those out and the result feels kind of like busy work. However, if you are looking for an ultra casual experience this game is well built, with pleasant graphics and sound, good touch screen support, and plenty of variety in level design. So while I don’t really enjoy it, I can see that others might, and I can still recommend it for that subset. Meanwhile, I’ll be sticking to mobile match three, OR for my desktop there is HuniePop and other similar games which perhaps surprisingly often have decently good puzzle oriented match-3 gameplay despite being aimed at the NSFW crowd.