SUMI SUMI : Matching Puzzle

This game pulled me in with the adorable graphics and the previous reviewers promises of a fairly difficult game, which I hadn’t been expecting based on the aesthetic style it’s got going for it. I’m on stage 84 as I write this and I’ve been having an absolute blast! The game introduces new mechanics often enough that things don’t feel like they’re going to get stale anytime soon. The game is definitely a challenge, I’ve spent 3 days straight playing the same stage on and off just trying to get a high enough score to perfect it. If you’ve got a lot of friends, stamina isn’t an issue and there’s a system in place to friend people randomly. It feels good to help each other out! You also don’t have to perfect every stage, if you at least pass them friends can also help you move on to the next area. (If you perfect all the stages you can just move on.) Micro transactions aren’t especially in your face outside of the usual pop-ups. And once you’ve got at least 3 of the little characters you have a “full team” so to speak. I haven’t done many of the gacha pulls myself, I use the coin currency to level up my little guys and save the gems for the gacha. All in all this is a perfect little game and I love it!

SumiSumi is super cute (well, most of the characters are). However, the levels are really difficult, it’s hard to get in-game currency, and I don’t understand the leveling up process. There’s currently an event going on in the game (a summer festival), but it’s so incredibly hard to get even a star for the levels. I’ve managed to complete the goals for levels one through nine, but I am thousands of points away from actually getting a star. I am still awarded a star, but getting a pole (much less a flag) feels impossible. I have so many keys already (600ish) but haven’t unlocked a treasure chest. I tried level five again by using three of my best Sumisumis (level 2 lol but I honestly have no idea how leveling up works), all four of the power ups, and finished with 12 or 14 turns left, yet I missed the goal for getting a flag by at least 10k points. Also, I hate to be that person (English is really hard to learn) but macaroons are the coconut mound things and macarons are the almond flour sandwich cookies that are actually in the game. I’m not upset that they are called the wrong thing (again, English is hard) but am irked because I’ve made them before and they’re vexing to make :P

I love this game ! There is one problem though and it’s getting me very frustrated. It just happened. I wanted to buy the 5.00$ pack of rubies that contains 60 in it I believe. I am not even a teenager yet so I still have to ask permission to buy something. ( I am working on it 🙄) Anyway it takes a while for my mom to respond. I was waiting there for while and when she finally responded it took money out of my account thingy but never gave the rubies I payed for!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have tried opening and closing the app, but whatever I do it won’t work. I don’t know what to do! Please please help me. I can’t just let it take money from me. I am begging for a respond , a solution, something. I don’t know what to do !!!!!!!!

I really want to love this game. It’s adorable and it was so addicting at first. A great way to pass the time and relax. A challenging game is great, I have no problem being challenged and solving puzzles, but for a game to be THIS difficult is just kind of frustrating and annoying. I’m not going to delete the game just yet, I want to give it more time. But I keep getting stuck on these levels. I have spent my hard earned money on this game just trying to pass level 69. It takes your money for rubies, but only gives you two extra tries and then just automatically fails you. $2 wasted, in my eyes. When a game is too difficult to pass a level in like 5 tries, it greatly decreases the playability. I don’t want to be stuck playing the same level over and over, I just want to keep moving forward. 😔

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I originally downloaded this game because it was cute and fun, but the rating system for the levels doesn’t make sense. You would think that they would get progressively harder (much like Candy Crush or other games like that— traveling down a map/path means a steadily increasing level of difficulty), but instead the levels seem to have a random difficulty setting. I only got to #54 before getting stuck— I played the level probably 25 times and couldn’t beat it. I imagine this is because they want me to spend money, which is always sad— if you require me to spend money to beat it, my desire to play drops quickly. I love cute fun games like this, but having to play the same level 25 times makes me lose interest fast. Unfortunate because it was enjoyable to play up to a certain point.