Swords Maker 12+

For anyone reading, I typically play any free to play apps in airplane mode to help stop an onslaught of ads so I wouldn’t know the situation involving ads and this game.

The idea isn’t bad and the sword making part for getting a higher score is a great idea for a mobile game. It’s the combat and level design that needs work. As per most quick/simple mobile games, it has a massive difficulty spike around level 12-15 if you don’t invest in health and damage.

If the devs care, here’s my advice:

Space out obstacles a little more, make the track a tad wider, and make obstacles not take up a whole 40% of the track and that would massively improve the level design. It felt way too tight whenever I was on the track.

Maybe add a shield power up on the track or have it be an upgrade from the beginning to help lessen damage taken and make the difficulty spike less apparent.

Also, my character flinches whenever I’m hit but the opponent doesn’t? From what I’ve experienced, there’s a certain window when you attack that can cancel the opponent’s attack and just wail on them. Then again, that might also be the computer just waiting a random time before attacking. Either way, I feel if I flinch and get stopped from attacking, the computer should too.

That’s all, I hope a dev sees and tries to improve on the game. As an aspiring game designer myself, I know I’d take notes.

After level like 25 it literally just turns into a game where we become farmers! I know it sounds weird. But we’re farming for ads everyone. You literally can not beat a level without watching an ad. They make the level incredibly hard to either not get a long sword at the end. Or if you do you can’t defeat the opponent, you will get half their health down and you will be at zero. BUT you get to watch a video for a “second chance” and after that. If you unlock a hero, or what ever they are in this game, you get to watch an ad to unlock it or you’ll “lose it forever”, which is terrible wording for littler kids by the way. But not my point. But after you click no to that you’ll probably have to watch an ad after that. Then you can buy an upgrade to hopefully be able to beat it on the first try next time! Health, speed, and damage. Doesn’t matter which one you pick. None will help. It’s gonna be the same thing next level. Then the level after that. Fun game until that point though.
TL;DR: after around 25 levels your stats don’t matter and levels become difficult to actually have a long sword to collect the higher buffs of damage and speed. Even if you do those don’t really make a difference, you’ll lose. Get the second chance. Then beat it. Then repeat. Your point after 25 levels is to watch ads.
Shame on these people making these games.

The gameplay itself is good, but the game has been packed full of so many ads that it could burst at any moment. Every game like this one has some sort of multiplier at the end of a level to increase your earnings, but you have to watch an ad to do that (and that’s just fine). But what isn’t fine is the fact that it doesn’t even matter. If you don’t want the multiplier (and therefore the ad), you can just press the, “no thanks” button below, but the game gives you an ad anyway! On top of this, you have to watch an ad if you want a better character as well. Another thing that drives me crazy is the level design. You can never get a decent sort because of the haphazardly placed obstacles, it almost feels like they want you to have a garbage sword! But despite all of this, I still kept on playing the game anyway, but the thing that drove me towards deleting the app was the fact that I was unable to play the game anymore. When you get to level 17, the game just breaks before you can even start the level, you just click and the level doesn’t start! I have no idea why this is happening and if I’m able to fix it, I have no idea where to start! Developers, if you’re reading this, please fix all of these problems that I just mentioned, despite all of what I just said, I really want to play your game.