Crashes and set up to fail before even going inside
The graphics, concept and music is nice, but it keeps randomly crashing, which is very bad in a match 3 game because it renders boosters and lives pointless. Also, I hadn’t even made it into the building and the levels are already impassable without using boosters. I played Homescapes and Gardenscapes and I got at least 100 levels out of both them before they became hard to beat. I downloaded this game because ‘Scapes games were getting too tedious to progress in. It was getting to the point that you have to beat 3 really hard games before doing one action. That’s a deal breaker for me because I need more mental stimulation than just constantly matching 3 or more items and praying that they’ll be generated in the ratio required to clear the board at the rate dictated by the maximum number of moves. This is probably the worst game I’ve ever downloaded. The level that lets you inside gives you four cauldrons to fill, each with three ingredients in ever increasing amounts that can only be filled in order. It doesn’t take a genius to do the math, look at the small playing field even after you wasted time breaking boxes and realize that you can only win with a lot of bombs. Unfortunately, it’s rare to match more than three ingredients at a time. I made a few dragonflies but they only collect one or two ingredients, so their existence is pointless and wastes moves. Also, I would’ve appreciated a bit more creativity. The wizard statue looked exactly like Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, there is a phoenix watching over the school like in Harry Potter, the witch’s name is Sabrina like the tv show, and I could have sworn I saw Quidditch goal posts. Also they mentioned the Ministry of Magic.This is not a clever homage, it’s the final resting place of fantasy cliches. F-