Mergical

 

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Merge the pipes together with: Mergical

This game is a clone of Mege Dragons or Merge Magic. There are two main currencies, gold coins and purple diamonds/gems. This game uses a fairly well known mechanic that can be found in may games. The whole point is to merge 3 or 5 identical items to make them merge into a strong item. The average level of items go up to near level 10, which means that it can take hundreds of level 1 items to get that high up the merge chain. You eventually get many creatures that will harvest things for you, (or just get in the way.) One of the items you merge up produces these sound notes called Arias, and are used to clense grey land.

Along the left of the main map screen you see several tasks. When you complete them you get some very minor rewards. Sometimes you get more companions to help you clear stuff. Which brings me to the clouds. Each one requires having a certain number of points to be able to clear them. When you do only a few squares open at a time. At one point the  number of points it takes to clear out the clouds is very insane. Not pictured in a screenshot are land masses you must pay at least 20 USD a piece to unlock, these are very steep paywals.

As you progress on you can see all the items you unlocked and each stage of it. When you claim it you generally get only 10 coins. Some special ones do give a couple of gems as well.

Down in the bottom left is a button that brings you to the puzzle missions. The rewards for these are not really worth it, but if you beat a mission for the first time you get a chest with some goodies and if you collect enough stars you get a slightly better reward.

Here is the example one of the map. These maps are small and have very limited items to deal with. As you progress the tasks become more complex and require more thought to solve.

Everytime you complete a mission you get 3 free rewards but you can pay gems to get slightly better items but still are not worth the diamonds.

Overall:

 2 of 5 cogs.

This game is riddled with so many paywals that make this game so hard to play. These kind of games are just not fun when you have to pay money just to make a single match or to get decent progress. Then there is the matter of not having enough space for the numerous things you must merge at once. Sadly this game suffers from the poor designs that I've seen so many merge games fall into.

Story:

 0 of 5 cogs.

Nope, none.

Amount of ads:

 low

There are many optional ads you can watch for various rewards at times. There are some pop-ups that try to get you to buy what ever event is going on at that day. Lastly there is a forced video ad that plays when you complete a puzzle missions.

Accurate Advertising?:

1%

Yeah, no. The screenshots on google play only partially match the actual game. There are assets and things that are shown that do not exist in the game at all. I can not remember the videos I've seen but those were mere accurate than the blatant clickbait on the store.

Graphics:

 5 of 5 cogs.

Arguably the only good thing about this game. The game has many HD assets that do have a nice astetic and does have a design more geared to female audiences. Though the HUD does seem to have generic art found in any game like this.

Gameplay:

 3 of 5 cogs.

The game is a bit buggy and objects will move when you don't want them to. The game gets boring rapidly while you wait for your helpers to wake up. Overall this game does not have anything new but paywals to it and is a let down of a merge game.

Free play:

30%

There are way too many paywalls that make this game hard to get into or want to continue to play. With the amount of paywalls there is no need for so many advertisements. This is a very greedy game and can not rely on its own mechanics to support people to by the game items without forcing it on them.

Fun factor:

💲 Cash grabby

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