Pocket World-New Journey 4+

Pretty fun game, as an architecture/culture buff, was having a lot of fun building these models. The detail won’t blow you away, but they’re fun enough to look at and there’s a lot of variety. While the stamina/collection/shard model is nothing I’m new to, and didn’t surprise me given that it’s “free to play” game, what did surprise me is just how stingy and unforgiving this model is in this particular games. Typically with games that use this model to make money, I’d expect that if I spend 5 or so bucks, I’d be rewarded with at least enough resources to continue the playing the game as much as I want for at least a few days, if not a week or two. That’s not the case in this game. 5 bucks won’t get you far. If you’re stuck trying to unluck a specific model for a collection so you can go forward, you’ll easily spend 5 dollars and blow through it without even getting anywhere. Even if you’re not “stuck”, and you just need more stamina to keep building models, you might get to build 3-4 (so maybe 15min of gameplay) before you’re out again. The stamina needed to build models needs to be halved, at least (3 instead 6, maybe even 2). On top of that, the drop rate for new model shards needs to be increased a bit. I don’t mind spending 5 bucks here and there to keep playing a game I enjoy, I know the devs need to make money somehow, but I’m not going to keep dropping $5 every 15min to keep playing.

As a regular player of the original, I was excited to see the game brought back, but almost immediately I was let down by the style of the game play. Requiring stamina to assemble each model was an unfortunate addition. My biggest issue besides the constant ads, is needing to redo specific models in order to collect pieces to build models in a different area in order to continue along the path. And having to redo those models almost half a dozen times just to get ONE piece out of the five required to even build the required model is a waste of time. Bring back the old mode where I could go as far as I could, without needing to repeat a past model, in one sitting. And lessen the amount of ads that I have to sit through.
The old version had a way to get app support directly instead of going through the App Store. If things improve significantly in a timely manner, I may change my review.

I played this game years ago and I absolutely loved it back then when it was just building scenery that was beautiful which is calming relaxing music in the background I recently found it again and re-downloaded it trying to one get my old account back because I remember buying special sets but also thinking that I could use this with my stress and anxiety I’ve been having lately boy was I wrong this game is nothing like what I remember it’s got so many ads and new things to it that it takes away from the relaxing part that a lot of players probably enjoyed this game is a total let down a disappointment I really wish they take away all the characters and whatever they change to the original because that was the better version of this game I ended up deleting it right after I read downloaded it.
Absolute trash what it is now I feel like this game is a shell of its former version.I really wish that I was going to enjoy this game again but sadly I was mistaken
Great job to the developers for changing it so much that it’s taken away from the originality and simplistic set up it had priorI’m really let down with us because I really wanted this to be something that could help me instead it irks me trying to do a puzzle and then getting slammed with ads after