Not only are the prices egregious but their are so many options.
It might as well have a message that comes up after you’ve paid for it saying ‘thanks, suckers’. So what do you get for a penny short of £100? A finite amount of coins (9,850), a finite amount of boosts items (6 of each – 36 in total) and wait for it, 3 hours worth of infinite lives.
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Of course these range from £1.99 for a pitiful amount of coins (240) to £99.99 for the most horrendously priced offer ever seen in free to play gaming. You’ll be able to refill your lives a few times but after that? Time to wait or reach into your pocket…or your parents pockets. The game does give you coins but they come in small amounts.
Then you’ll either wait out a timer or stump up some coins to get another one. Suddenly, the randomised level will be way harder and you’ll find yourself restarting over and over again. True to free to play form, Toy Story Drop seems to recognise that you’re ‘doing too well’ so comes down hard. With that in mind, the sudden steep difficulty curves are incredibly questionable. It’s important to recognise that that the game is for children. Which brings us up Toy Story Drops biggest issue…the challenge. Here you’ll get some character interactions before having to complete a specific task that is normally quite challenging. Levels are laid out on an ‘interactive’ map where you can tap certain items for ‘Easter eggs’ and every so often you’ll reach a story based objective. This are very useful as they can often clear huge swathes of the board helping you eliminate the odd pesky one left over. Bonus items are dished out when certain patterns are created and/or multiple matches are made. Variety is there even if it still amounts to matching 3 or more colours. Levels have a wide range of objectives from clearing a certain colour, to popping all the bubble wrap, to using an etch-a-sketch and more. So as we said, it’s a match-3 game with a Toy Story skin. It says a lot about the state of the free to play market that these elements are almost welcome when compared to what we have to put up with now. No ads, the occasional pop up offering you a ‘great deal’, premium currency and timers. Eschewing the new formula of ad spam over in-app purchases, Toy Story Drop instead goes to the old way of doing things. Why? Simply because of variety and a total lack of ads. In fact it’s one of the best match-3 games out there right now. It’s as basic as they come but…and it’s a big but…it’s not a bad game. We’ve seen it, we’ve played it and we’ve ignored the horrendously overpriced in-app purchases.
However, that doesn’t change the fact that it is exactly like every match-3 game ever but with a Toy Story skin. So Toy Story Drop is in a strong position to actually get attention purely by not being those. Now instead it’s all ‘idle’ this or ‘io’ that. Admittedly these types used to flood the market but since creators realised they actually had to put some work into those, they’ve kind of dried up. So what great new idea does Toy Story Drop introduce? As the name suggests it is a ‘match-3’ game.
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Instead it’s the free to play market that looks and sees some easy money by taking a well worn idea and slapping a new skin over it. Gone are the days of big budget releases hoping to earn a buck through association, though. With the release of Toy Story 4, it’s almost expected that we would get some tie-in games.
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