Candy Crush Saga

King.com

Getting off my lazy duff to punch out a few more of these reviews, why the heck not, it's fun to come up with some quips and jokes at the expense of a hard working developer trying to make some money off of peoples obsession of smart phone addictions. That reminds me, go ahead and click on one of the ads on the page while you're here, I might as well get my sliver of a share of the pot of gold.

Excuses for taking a sabbatical aside, Have you heard of this game called Candy Crush Saga? IT appears to be stuck in that 50 to 100 MILLION download hump that it can't quite get over, not unlike how Warren Buffett can't seem to earn more then a gazillion dollars in one lifetime. I would normally pass on a game that everyone and their mothers have already played since what can I share with you in this blog that you wouldn't already know, but what can I say, I'm addicted. I've tossed my phone down at least a dozen times declaring this game too hard and too frustrating to continue only to pick it up 10 minutes later after a Facebook friend sends me another life.

And what's not to love? puzzle game is too easy and you get board, but this game is just popular enough to give you some true bragging rights that getting to level 147, that's right, I'm stuck on 147? Where are you at?


Recommendation: Join the collective, then let me know what you and your friends refer to the cluster candies as.

Sniper

sniper forces

Having just read Mark Owen's "The Hardest Day" and thinking I was downloading a first person shooter, I was all excited to act out my fantasy of being a member of Navy Seal Team 6. boy, was I ever disappointed!  The game instead is a median for trying to get you to download another app that wants to run ads on your phone 24-7. You can get through the half dozen prompts safely and begin to enjoy this game that turns out to be <drum roll> a puzzle game!

Yes, the brave men and woman of the US armed services have accidentally been shuffled into a frenzy that would put Dick Cheney to shame and need your assistance to reassemble their various vehicles and cool action shots of marines with big guns in order to defeat America's enemies. Are you up for the challenge?

I went ahead and played a few rounds, fun enough game, but not what I was expecting and not anything that I would wake up in the middle of the night and write home about, especially because in that scenario I see myself already in bed. Perhaps instead I am in a commandos tent in the middle of Afghanistan and the President has personally selected me for the critically important mission of rearranging tiles such that an image is made of a sniper kneeling on a sand dune... DANG IT!

Recommendation: Read the book "No Easy Day" Get the app only if you are really bored and are confident you won't install a bunch of Adware apps on your phone by doing so. That is the real challenge of this game.