I was initially delighted to find a version of doodle jump on Apple Arcade since the original is frankly unplayable due to the ads. But this unfortunately falls short. Honestly, it’s too hard and gets stale very quickly. Unlike the original you have to unlock new levels by collecting gems. This process is painstaking and annoying with one game garnering 5 gems at most, and the number of gems needed to unlock each level doubles each time making it take forever by the time you’ve unlocked just 3 levels. And these levels are boring. They don’t change much and just make the game harder. No power-ups or interesting scenery to be found. And worst of all, the option to manually calibrate the game is gone, meaning if you want to play while not in a perfectly straight position, you’re short of luck. There is no settings menu at all, which is frankly disturbing. Overall this game fell short of my expectations and I’d rather deal with ads than play this lobotomized and stale evolution of an App Store classic.
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