Succubus Contract

Yeah, yeah, it's a Hunnie Pop clone. But who cares? I already have that game anyway.

I've tried hard to like this game, but honestly, it is just too difficult to get a handle on for me to enjoy it. There are too many oddities in the game that make it less than fun. For instance, sometimes when you are buying drinks (to give as gifts) the price reads $15. But the drink actually costs you $20, or $25, or $30... So, if you aren't constantly watching your funds, you can be surprised when instead of spending $75 for 5 allegedly "$15" drinks you end up spending $150. The game also appears to have some math glitches in the scoring. A number of times I have seen the markers indicate that I had scored 1, or 2, each for a match. But nothing was added to my score. I've played a lot of games like this, and this is the first one I've flat out given up on. In its favor, the artwork is pretty cute. And the game seems to have the makings of a fun experience. But for me, it's too irritating.

Majority of the game is spent in the puzzle side of things. Normally not a huge deal, but in this case it's REQUIRED that you complete a puzzle to progress. Even if you already got them done before anything else, you still have to do one more to move on. The puzzles can't be that bad, right? Wrong. The amount of points needed to complete a stage goes up, but the point value of the gems stays absurdly low. To get any significant score, you need to carefully line up each match... but you can't, because it requires that you make another match in order to move the pieces. This wouldn't be so bad if you weren't on such a strict move limit. This leads to my next point. The amount of RNG and pure luck needed is insane! Even with the points you spend to improve your odds, the skills you level up, the abilities you unlock, and you still can't guarantee you'll win. The amount of content in this game is disproportionate to how much time you'll spend replaying the same levels over and over again trying to get a beatable board. It was fun at first, but it's become a soulless grind trying to get all the achievements to justify putting more than a few hours into this game. It's not worth it. I want to be done with this. Once I get the last few achievements, I'm done. Uninstalling it and never going back. There is no replay value worth this unending torment.