Im 24 years old and I love this game. I begrudgingly started playing to earn Happy Street rewards and now I enjoy it more than Happy Street!
PROS
- Cute characters and storyline
- Easy to pick up, but learning how to fight boats with specific weaknesses, attacks, and heroes using your specific equipment and special attacks adds an element of challenge. Ive learned that focusing on a single cannon to open a spot on the deck, then throwing boom balloons at the open spot is a powerful way to take a ship down FAST. You can also save up on action points until a sail or nose goes down and launch full firepower while their ship is vulnerable.
- Plenty of little activities to keep you entertained, from crusades and mini quests to the arena and dice game.
- Pretty fair system for earning Flooz without buying it and extending play time by getting arena tickets and energy through ads.
- Support was responsive and returned my Flooz when I unintentionally blew 60 on blessings because I didnt notice I was spending (no popup confirmation screen). An annoying feature, but at least my hard-earned Flooz were returned.
- New updates to resources (less Navarre farming for pirate boats!) and separate levels of crusades make things way more fun!
CONS
- Facebook integration a must - not having friends who play is a serious handicap. If you add friends on Game Center who also have their Facebook linked to Pirate Power, they count as if you are Facebook friends though, and most Happy Street friends also play Pirate Power.
- If your screen times out or the game crashes you lose rewards because it resets to the main screen. Also frustrating if you get an important text or email and have to switch apps, your progress is gone when you come back. Ive also had some glitches where I tapped away too fast and my rewards werent added to my account. I lost a full tier of arena rewards that way!
- Relic leaves and pirate fusion gems are SO hard to get. Having to choose between upgrading my vault and my gardeners house is annoying. I cant even reach Level 2 because I have to keep using them on my vault. I also have to choose between upgrading parts because pirate fusion gems are so hard to get.
SUGGESTIONS
- Make a rare resource-earning mini quest like Mansooles gold where you can destroy a ship carrying resources (i.e. a lumber shipment of pirate wood to get 10 woods)
- Make relic leaves easier to get
- Have a popup anywhere people could accidentally spend Flooz, like on blessings
- Allow us to resume battles after switching apps or the phone going to standby so we dont lose rewards after spending energy or arena tickets
- Make it easier to get medals for heroes won through chests. I spent a lot of Flooz to get Ash and Stellar but cant upgrade them
- More treasure hunt/clue events! That was so fun and I made lots of new friends