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This is an update from a previous review that was extremely negative, which had to do with in-app purchases that disappeared due to a developer update. As frustrated as I was, I can say I was just as pleased that the devs did everything they could to rectify the situation through the communication channels I was able to reach them by. It's nice to know the makers stand by their product and are willing to provide 5 Star service to their customers. With that said, the game itself is fun. It's a different style of a matching game that I was not previously familiar with. Yes, as some reviewers have noted, you can expect a little bit of a grind as far as progression if you don't intend to spend any money in the game. But you can see progress at a fair pace if you just stick with it and apply some strategy to the puzzles. Plus, the ability to upgrade the values of gems you remove is a fun touch and helps speed up your progress. And oh yeah, the art is fun too if you appreciate anime/Bishoujo style works. After some initial frustrations, I can say I find this game enjoyable, and recommend it as something worth checking out regardless of whether you choose to invest a couple bucks in it or just want to play at a freemium and leisurely pace. Again, big thanks to the devs for their support.

This is the only game I’ve found that’s even remotely close to a genuine dating simulator. The only things I wish I could change are quality of life fixes and one moderate issue. For starters, the English is a bit broken, and sometimes I’m not even sure what the girls are talking about. But being a free app, this isn’t surprising. This is the first app I’ve used with both standard and premium currency where the premium is easier to get than the standard. And yet somehow the standard currency is more useful (at least in the early game). It just feels like leveling up takes way too long, since you need the standard currency for it. The one big issue that stands out more than the others is the girls don’t have any real personality. Answering their questions can be a real hit or miss, where sometimes it’s obvious and sometimes it’s so enigmatic, you might as well try a blindfolded peashooter. Still, all these relatively minor negatives in conjunction with all the positives makes it a really nice experience. I love that you can watch an ad to recover energy after a failed date (so it doesn’t feel wasted). But none of the ads are forced, so it never feels overbearing.

I recently got this app and bought the starter packs to support the devs I was genuinely enjoying and having an overall great time with the game, but then it was suddenly like some giant difficulty curve just piledrived my progress into nothing. After i unlocked the super dates suddenly I’m barely meeting the requirements for regular dates in order to get the rewards to be able to open the super dates. It feels like really stagnant and slows down tremendously and the rewards drop in such small quantities that I have to use a whole energy bar to get maybe some of the things I need for the next super date I’m trying for. I’ve upgraded most of my skills at least once or twice but it still doesn’t seem like enough it feels a little heavy on the prices for the super dates as well but other than those gripes the game is great and I don’t have any other complaints so to speak it’s overall a fun game but I feel I hit a wall and now it’s just this long slow crawl and it’s really sucked a lot of the fun outta it

I like the game, its fun, but everything is stuck behind pay walls. You don’t get enough of anything at any given time to manage your resources wisely which is something I’ve seen the development team say. For instance you can upgrade your skills, which is nice, but you need coins to do so and they take forever to get and when you do get them its in small quantities. The only thing you can do to get some coins requires you to ask questions which uses up energy which then brings the game play to a hault while you wait for your energy to go back up. And you need coins for items that boost your scores while in the puzzle. And even then the skill upgrades are a bit ridicules in prices. Some start at 500 while others start at 1500. Its a fun game, but these thing slow the gameplay down which annoys me. I want to have long play times not, open app, click a few things, do a few dates and then wait another few hours before I can do anything.

I love playing this game, I got hooked when I met Emilia but the energy takes so painfully long to restore that it's annoying. I felt it was just a hassle to try and get to know the characters who fell very flat very fast. Granted, it's a free game and one that I love. Almost spent money on it but I need to not spend any. I wish that we could play for longer periods of time without having to watch five minutes worth of ads to make it so we can play for another three minutes. Then the currency system. If it was a bit easier to get the coins, or keep all the pics without having to spend all our coin on it. The gems I don't mind, but I wish that they weren't needed for some of the in match upgrades. Overall, easily one of my favorite phone games I've played. It has a challenge to it, and now I have to beat myself up over Ivy or Emilia.

I understand that the premise of games like this are for it to be hard after a while, but it gets too hard too fast. After about the 3rd or 4th girl, the games gets dramatically harder, especially after their 3rd or 4th dates. The amount of time it takes to upgrade skills I’m this game are made nearly impossible with how little coins you receive right off the bat and later in the game. Not to mention, with the dates being nearly impossible after you finish all five of the main, and need to repeat them for item unlock, actually getting those items are very hard. With upgrades with the girls, with the little amount of gems you can find, it makes that feature useless, unless you’re willing to spend over $20-$50. This games I beautiful, and a great time killer, but it becomes too difficult for itself very fast. The scores are set too high for how random the game mechanic works. You pretty much roll a die to see if you win or not, and with how little energy you have and how long it takes to receive it, it makes it that much harder. I want to love this game, but it’s too hard to be enjoyable at the moment.

Over all, it’s a cute little game, and could be so much better. It’s just impossible to get anywhere with it without actually buying resources. They do offer you daily freebies at the expense of watching ads. But, it seems like I have to save up gems and power-ups over 1 or two weeks before I can play a round. Basically, the small amount they give you daily is not enough to get any actually progress in the game. After getting sucked into COC’s in app purchase feature, I’ve been very leery about these types of games. I’ve made it a point to NOT purchase anything in this game, and my results really show for it. I’ve had the game for almost a year now, and I’ve tried to make due with the daily freebies. My progress has been minimal to say the least. And if there is adult content in this game, I’m nowhere near the level to see any of it. At the time of writing this, I’ve pretty much given up on it. If I have to watch another ad, I’m going to vomit. You really do spend more time watching ads than playing the game. I’d give this game 5/5 if they would just ease up on the ads and RMT, but I don’t see that happening.

This game needs some frustrating bug fixes. First, there’s the bug where randomly you won’t be able to use a gem in the far left column in your sequence. It’s especially infuriating when it’s the key piece in the middle of a possible long chain. Second is the moves counter. Your numbers are off or something. Gave almost always ends at 2 moves. I frequently forgot this bug, and think “ok this is my second to last move, so I have one more after this” and then “hey watch an ad to get one more move!” Does that mean move number 1 is the one you have to watch an ad to get? Third annoying game mechanic is the gifts/level ups for each character. 1 of the 4 level ups that make a certain color gem worth more points is for a gem color that isn’t even used on that character’s puzzle!!! I found out this the hard way. So everyone take note!!! Each character has one color missing from their puzzle, and it’s different for each character. Pay attention when leveling up the abilities of each character.

Well it’s now absolutely impossible to advance. You made it so that even with the 70% boost in coins for chatting I only get 25 coins per question. Before the update I was getting around 105 coins per question. Still wasn’t making the fastest progression but it was manageable. Makes it absolutely impossible when you need 6000 coins to upgrade your next skills. The ratio of receive to spend is absolutely absurd. I did the math and with my highest increased girl (70% to chats, and dating is out of the question because I can never succeed with the amount to win being so high), I need to get 240 questions correct. And with only 20 questions to ask for a long period of time that’s 12 full energy bars before I can upgrade a single skill. That slow progression of game play makes this otherwise good game absolutely annoying and aggravating to play and brings a game where progression was nice without making it easy come to a complete halt. Need to be able to receive coins at a greater rate and I’ll raise the rating again.

So first off this is a beautiful game. Graphics and game physics are nice. The story line/plot is there. Nothing fancy or too in-depth. It’s just works as a time killer. The problem arises for me after the first couple of “dates”. You will find yourself not being able to see any more pictures because you “inbox” is full. But for the low price of 4.99 you can get more space so you can continue playing the game. That leads me to ask, why not just charge 4.99 for the game to begin with. As there is no other work around to this issue, unlike other games where you can grind quest or watch ad after ad to unlock progress, here is where the game died for me. Not only that but the game itself also became a tad more difficult. The score needed to pass the “dates” sky rocketed and the odds of certain orbs dropping also diminished. So I found myself doing a lot of Mickey Mouse three, four, to five orb connections because the orbs just were not there. While the game is almost free of ads, that was a plus. Other free games will throw ads in every three seconds and this game does not do that. While you have the option to watch ads, it’s not forced. Overall again, if you want to fully enjoy this game be prepared to drop the 4.99 from the jump. Hope this helped. Be well

I don’t have problems with mobile games using ads, I get it they need to make money. However the fact that energy takes quite a while to get and that on top of having to watch 30s ads to get 1 energy you need 4 for a date and that you are limited to only 20/day. The currency is a big issue it almost paywalls the later segments of most character as the point value is so high that without lvl 3 or 4 upgrades for the squares and such you can’t do them, and the problem is that in total the first 4 place give you somewhere about 100 coins and it takes 1 1/2 half’s hours for the fourth place to restock means that even getting a lvl 1 upgrade can be challenging and both the energy and the coins are annoying but their solutions come wi the just waiting. However the camera is something that I think is very useless, you don’t get to choose what photos you want to keep and the phone only starts with 5 slots and to buy another 5 takes 9 gems but there is no way to earn gems other than the occasional ad. As well this event with the deadly sins is just up to luck, I am stuck on a lvl that requires 48 feather and I tried it 3 times and all 3 times there were just not enough feathers even if you had infinite moves.

It’s a nice little game and besides the date sim part I picked it up for the actual game mechanic, however it seems as like the game forces you to spend money be it by buying boosts or by buying space to get more pictures (which can’t be deleted) so you’re forced to keep and buy more space to unlock more pics. Also you get one each time you win so if you win a ton you end up filling the slots rather fast. The other issue is the points to reach each date, without boosts or leveling your traits, (it costs gold but it doubles each level so you have to buy coins to keep up) you basically can’t get to win at all. Not only that but at least 3 times when I had boosts active they NEVER SHOWED UP so basically a wasted boost that also costs in game currency. Once you lose? You can watch an ad for an extra move (which 90% of the time don’t help because of how much points you need) or to spend gems for 5 extra moves. I bought the starter park for $16 to support the devs but with how expensive is to play with the currency and how forced it feels to just spend money I’m quite close to just delete the app and find other bubble matching game.

I don’t often leave reviews, but this game is an exception. The mechanics of the game are good, the art is great, but you completely hit a paywall once you’ve unlocked the 5th girl. With only 20 moves per date, and the points required to finish a date increasing tremendously, with no way to farm coins to up skills to help... there’s practically no point to continue to play the game unless you’re willing to pay out hundreds for their premium currency. I bought their starter bundle to support the dev and see if the difficulty curve would even slightly get better, but not even close. It needs rebalancing to the point where you can hopefully get more then a couple of hours worth of interesting game time. You’d think if the devs wanted more people to invest in their game, they’d allow the average, casual joe more access to content a little further into the storyline. I’d be more then happy to contribute more often if I was at least rewarded with an experience that didn’t leave me feeling as if the game was a complete waste of time and money.

Game is beautiful and fun, at first. You get a few photos free, and decent gold. But then the gold squeeze gets insane. Pay about 3 dollars irl, to get 2,200 gold. After one upgrade of a single “Color/token type.” It cost 1,500. If I spend 3 dollar on a game, it should take we quite a bit forward. Not, a single higher level for one of many coin types that level 15 types. And if you don’t constantly pay gold, you also can’t see photos of the girls fully, the main selling point of the the game. The devs can say it’s a little grind and gold is a bit of patience. But right now it is ridiculous. They really seem to wanna sucker you in to pay the first few days before the steep hike in currency. Grinding might get you a thousand daily. As said maybe two days to get one token to a third level. And progressively pricier from there. Don’t get suckered in till they make the photos completely free no coin/gem gallery nonsense. Or gold actually drops in the hundred from completed dates.