Recent reviews by WaxWeazle

Worst version in the series. They're going backwards on this.
No settings, so couldn't turn off the audio in-game, had to mute it outside the game, since there is now music on top of the sounds that I don't want to hear.
Lots of words are incomplete, which is incredibly annoying and pointless in a game about words, not to mention that there are enough puzzles with THE SAME WORD TWICE... Once complete, once incomplete. What's the point of that

Would be nice to see this being developed with less of a touch-screen approach.

If you want an addictive game that plays incredibly smooth, is fun, will give you some laughs, some scares, and some virtual sweat from building, this is the game for you.
10/10

I purchased the title expecting a fun Tetris variant to relax with. In hindsight, it's a fun idea, except the syncing is quite off on a lot of the music, which makes it hard to enjoy that aspect. There isn't a whole lot of content either.

The description says it's a "unique block game" that combines Tetris and music, but... it doesn't feel like it combines the two. It's there, but you can just as well ignore the music essentially and play, especially since it doesn't properly seem to work sync-wise. Truthfully, no aspect about the game feels unique; if you want a "block puzzle game and the music game" combination (as written in the description), you'd probably enjoy Lumines a LOT more than this one.

There are a lot of customisation settings available for those who are interested, which is a nice aspect that other Tetris games could actually use. Though I will add, while a controller works, I found it a bit hard to see where you are when navigating the settings menu with a controller.

Despite being quite cheap during Steam sales, I honestly can't recommend it. If you're doubting, I would suggest to look for other similar games instead.

Haven't bought a football game in at least 5+ years and ended up buying this while it was cheaper during the steam sale.

The positive:
- It plays well, it's nice to see how far football games in general have come on how smooth the play feels, and how players have their unique styles and abilities that really shine in this when you play with them and utilise them.
- My friend and I have started playing some co-op games and it's ridiculously fun to do that, we had a bunch of good laughs, so if that's something you're looking for, it's worth it in my eyes.


The negative:
- The obvious lures to try and get people to spend a stupid amount of money on in-game crap that's literally pointless and worthless after a year.
- Despite having a pretty bulky PC, the game's cutscenes have an annoying stuttering whenever there is a celebration, e.g.
- I'm playing with a Dualsense, but for some odd reason the game keeps pulling my mouse back into the frame all the time and visibly putting it in the middle on top of the actual game, which is quite an annoyance. Doesn't matter whether I move it to a different monitor, or if I put it somewhere on the bottom of the screen, it keeps doing it. Why? I'm not using my mouse. Shouldn't have to be an issue. Seriously annoying bug.
- Sometimes the game stops reading my controller input when I start a match. It works fine in the menu, all the way up until I start a match; then suddenly, no input gets caught, and I can't do a damn thing about it other than ALT + F4 and restarting it.

The worst:
Online play genuinely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks. I don't play 24/7 on this game. it's fun, I enjoy playing it, but I don't play it all the time. I don't want to be "esports" levels of good, I just want to enjoy a game from time to time. You have plenty online options in this game, but whatever it is I choose, I always get put up against people who seemingly play the game 24/7 and have everything maxed out. That's fine by me, I don't care if someone plays that much, but match the skill levels at least so that people don't get put up against others like this. It's ridiculously stupid.

Aside from completely ignoring the skill level to match with others, 9/10 players that play a lot end up doing nothing but showboating and childish crap just because you aren't as good as they are, I guess. It's disappointing, it makes the game's online modes awful to play, and I truly do not understand one bit why EA hasn't even remotely considered doing anything about this kind of ♥♥♥♥. I'm sure this was happening in titles of the previous years as well, and I know, it's EA... But that's not an excuse. It's disappointing that the online modes are only made for people who can play 24/7, or esports players. Beginners or casual players barely get a fair chance, and only end up getting showboating ♥♥♥♥♥ against them.

It's a sudoku game, does what it needs to do. The UI is a bit more touch optimised though than for usage with mouse/keyboard. Would be great to see PC optimization for a future update.
Additionally, there's a timer per sudoku you do. Fun to see how long you're taking to finish one - however, it's going at twice the speed, which I don't understand.
Would I recommend it? If you're looking for a simple Sudoku game, sure, why not? Th ough if you want one that's properly optimised for PC and not what seems to be more touch optimised than anything - I'd suggest looking for a different title.

Loving it, but decided to hold off on playing it more until the game's received some more patches, as some current situations can make it a bit frustrating.

Despite having bought it for an incredibly low price, it's still money absolutely wasted. I'm far from a game dev, but I truly cannot understand how such a simple concept can be so hard to put together in a decent form.

- Want to change settings? Every little click will give you a loading screen. Ridiculous!
- I frequently encountered that my mouse would be completely off from where I am actually clicking. I'd have to hover all the way to the left or right somewhere to try and select the cards I wanted. Incredibly weird bug.
- Another annoying bug is that you click on a card, it'll glow orange to the point where you can't really read that card anymore. A bit of a stupid detail, but I found it annoying nonetheless.
- While not everybody is in need of a tutorial, it would still be nice to actually have a decent one. It's literally just text and images, as opposed to a proper tutorial that'll teach you something in a useful manner.
- At the end of your moves? You'll never know, thanks to the lack of a mention from the game.
- Hints are absolutely pointless, as it keeps cycling between literal pointless moves you can make like moving a 3 to a different 4 and back, as opposed to actually checking what you could potentially do to make the next move.
- "Advanced Spider Solitaire" is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It's not just advanced, it feels like an impossible game, especially without the addition of an undo move. There is an undo move in other modes, so why not in this? The ♥♥♥♥?

Honestly, I tried multiple times but it just doesn't work. Using an iPhone 11 myself, I couldn't see any notifications in VR whatsoever. Half the time it wouldn't properly grant access for the notifications and would be stuck on "granting access!". Then when it finally connected, it would never, ever show me notifications. Not from iMessage, not from Telegram, not from Outlook, not from any other apps at all, regardless if it's system apps or third-party. Would have been useful if it worked, but sadly enough for me, it did not.

Changing my review! Achievements are now finally part of the game on Steam as well. Great game, fun Disney game. I would say I'm not a fan whatsoever of the in-game microtransactions, especially since this game can be played by kids who aren't aware of this stuff and just get caught up in it... but I guess that's not something that'll change.


Original: The game itself is most definitely fun, looks great and plays great. Though, I'm thoroughly disappointed that xbox and playstation got achievements but apparently Steam gets left in the dark... Feels like a lazy case to me.

Not a perfect game by any means, but if you enjoy the Call of Duty franchise, then this is a good one to get, as it's one of the good ones that's come out in recent years.