iAssociate 3

I wanted to play this game with my kids now that they are getting older. But the new game, while easy enough for them to understand, is terrible!!! It’s got that awful Vegas style play and the levels are weird—just as you get started it moves you to a different level. What a disappointment. :(

This is fun, but I wish the letters weren’t there and you had to think of it for yourself. iAssociate2 was soooo great! I wish it was still available! There’s no other game like it! I’ve looked everywhere

I really liked iAssociate2 because you didn’t have to wait for a timer for the next level to open. Why make us wait when each additional level cost more and more keys? I think it’s a ploy to try to get you to spend money on the game. A level should open immediately after unlocking it. I had to wait 20 minutes for the last one on the easy level. Lord knows what it will be on the medium level. Associate was enjoyable. This one not so much even with the cute animations.

Why?! This once was a time diverting excellent game. It was probably simple to develop too. If the entire alphabet doesn’t pop up than it’s just an anagram with clues. And keys. And rewards. Fluff, fluff, fluff! All the bells and whistles do not hide that is a very dumbed down version of what was once a top notch game.

This game is awesome! If you like the old board game Tribond, you will like this game! I only wish is that it would have a save progress option. I got a new tablet and had to restart the whole thing! I lost a lot of keys and jewels.

I would rate it 5 Stars if you could play it in landscape mode. Also I really liked iAssociate2. It had a lot more subjects and levels. But I do like some of the new aspects of iAssociate3. Like the offer of the letters. What I don’t like that you have lives and you need to buy crystals to buy hints. But it seems that most games are this way now. I hope iAssociate2 is still supported. I haven’t played all the levels yet. But all in all keep em coming. It is a unique and entertaining game.

I loved the stimulating game this used to be. This one is not even challenging at all. I was hoping the medium and hard levels would be more like I associate and I associate 2 but still far too easy. It’s probably going to be deleted. We don’t want super easy games just because the majority of the world has decided they’d rather be dumb; some of us want to be challenged. PLEASE BRING BACK THE CHALLENGE! You could even make turning on letter choices a an option. The new graphics are cool but I’d still rather the old game!!!

Wish there was a way to play the original iassociate, where it was a large growing web that all stemmed from a single word. Now you get the letters to choose from. Bring back the original!!!!!

I was initially delighted to see that there was still a version of iAssociate available. iAssociate 2 is one of my all-time favorite games. When they stopped releasing new levels for it, I was disappointed. Unfortunately, iAssociate 3 is a sad, microtransaction-riddled, error-laden, dumbed-down piece of garbage. Instead of just letting you guess the words directly, it’s combined gameplay with another old Ticbits game, Word Strike, providing you with a selection of letters to choose from. (The daily challenge appears to be straight Word Strike, using four-word clues instead of associations.) This makes the game too much easier, in my view. The worst change is how you open levels. In iAssociate 2, you simply bought level packs outright, and unlocked new levels with the keys you got from completing the previous level. In version 3, you still need and get the keys, but you also have to either wait an amount of time that increases as levels get harder, or spend gems to open them immediately. You get gems when you complete a level, but not fast enough to open all levels without waiting. The idea, obviously, is to encourage the player to spend money on gems. This proliferation of in-game currencies being needed to advance through a game has absolutely ruined far too many puzzle games. I have no objection to purchasing level packs or puzzle packs. I do object to being pushed into spending additional money or forced to wait for arbitrary amounts of time to keep playing levels I otherwise have already paid for. I want the puzzle challenge, not the stupid ancillary gamification. And as for errors, the puzzles are filled with them. This may be the most frustrating part of all. The errors range from simple obvious typos (ALWAYS PROOFREAD EVERYTHING when you’re making word puzzles!) to sometimes-significant errors of fact. (For example, in one puzzle I just completed, a clue linked to “Hulk” asked for the character played by Bill Bixby in the ‘70s TV show. It was also linked to “Bruce”, indicating that the answer being sought was the name of Hulk’s human alter ego in the comics (and MCU), Bruce Banner. But in the show (and in this show alone, of all productions featuring The Hulk), the name was changed to David Banner, making the provided clue blatantly incorrect.) Repetition is also everywhere in this game. Certain link chains seem to pop up in almost every puzzle. If you get “cat”, it’s absolutely certain that it will link to “dog”, which then almost always

I don’t like timers or that it gives you letters to select from. Not the same.