Needs a better dictionary, difficulty settings, or both
Update: half of the nonsense is easy enough to ignore, but this feels kinda like a reskin of a religious version of the same game. There’s an awful lot of xtian words, none I can find from other religions, and several simple English words aren’t accepted. Still far too easy and the nonsense is still annoying. Lost an additional star because it feels like they’re shoving their god down my throat.
This game is fine but it would be much better if you could disable all the extra nonsense. I have no interest in your limited time games, your owls, puzzles, or ladybugs. Just let me spell my words in peace while I binge whatever catches my fickle interest in the background.Clearly the Developers Gave Up On It
This app/game is just… lazy. They clearly intended this to be a pay-to-play kind of game, and to get as much out of someone as quickly as they could. The game, after about thirty or so levels, stagnates. There are no new challenges, no scaling in difficulty, and in fact, the rewards are the same every day, no changes after the first month or so.
The words they chose to go into the round are not consistent. Sometimes they choose a singular or plural version of a word, sometimes both, sometimes neither. The next puzzle will sometimes have that same instance. I’ve also encountered past or future tense use of a word, but not the present. They also choose words that are British variants (gild?).. It makes no sense. Im unsure of the dictionary they use, but if it has British variants of words, but doesn’t believe biome is a word, I’m not sure what to say.Vertical Orientation Only
A good game that could easily be great with some minor improvements. If the following disappointments are addressed in future releases, it will earn 5 stars.
The game plays in vertical (portrait) orientation only on the iPad. I have an iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard, which means the iPad is in the horizontal (landscape) orientation. So it means I cannot play this game while using the Magic Keyboard. I wish the game would switch between the orientations like most iPad apps.
Not all words are recognized as words.
Not all gameplay is synced across devices. I am stuck playing it only on one device because not all my progress is synced to other devices when I try to play on them.
The Ladybug timer starts immediately even before you start the next round. So if you want to access the dictionary between rounds, you are losing time on the timer. Also the timer does NOT pause when exit the game. So if you don’t have the 15 minutes to play when you win the Ladybug timer, you are screwed. Life happens. Mother Nature calls, work breaks ends, doorbell rings, etc… If you leave the game, the timer will RUN out on you. The timer should only run while playing the game in actual game-play (in a game round). Disappointing.