Bubble Witch 3 Saga Reviews

Really Fun and Good

s_jellis

Bubble Witch 3 saga is really good except for the fact that: When I’m really close to finishing a level, there’s no possible way to win it! I mean I have no color to pop the rest of the bubbles

Winning based on luck of bubble sets combined with a limited set of lives? Punishing the player for losing by taking away their ability to play? Not a fun combination; the lives mechanic is probably the worst aspect of the game. The gameplay feels too luck-focused for this to work. Sometimes I can't even make it to the last stretch but other attempts I get 3 stars. It might feel like it becomes 'pay to win' with the occasional hard levels sometimes feeling impossible to beat without the special magic, but if you reserve the complementary ones, it's doable. It feels like it takes ridiculous luck to beat levels without boosts. You could be stuck on a level for weeks. The videos of people beating them are just 1 in 100 chances of luck. It's not a hard game. It's just 'keep bashing your head at a level until you get the right bubble RNG'. The fire charm mechanic is absolute useless trash that only serves to intimidate the player into buying boosts and paying to not lose. I mention the interesting mechanics, but sometimes they add to the random luck chance of winning, like fairy bubbles and firework bubbles randomly popping surrounding ones. The luck aspect wouldn't matter so much if they didn't penalize you for losing with lives and then make buying lives a cheap profit. It's still a well taken care of game, in the end and probably the better bubble bursting app game on the store, otherwise.