Royal Gems

a good game to play to kill time

セール時に購入 ジェムを消した時の音が気持ちいい！ 画質も良く手軽に遊べます

I really wanted to recommend this game. The game play is great, the controls are responsive, the matching is fun. However there is ultimately not much skill involved and you can get stuck very easy which makes it impossible to get three stars for the level. They have a near slot machine which adds some more fun to it. You can also power up your... power ups. But if you get stuck with un-matchable gems at the bottom, that is pretty much it. You are stuck and then you stay stuck getting only three matches when you really need at least 4. If there were items you could use to alter the grid or something that put skill back into the game I would very much recommend this. But as the way it is, it is a luck game that pretends to be a skill game. Also no achievements...

I bought this on offer, so I paid a fraction of the normal price. Also, I understand that the game is no longer being supported. Having said that, I've spent quite a while on it already. Each stage needs you to have reached a certain level in previous stages which is sometimes very tricky, and I've played some levels several times. I'm not keen on the timed levels and you do have to pass them but I'm rather slow and I just about managed it. But it's fun. I like being able to draw lines between jewels rather than having to swap them, and there are different challenges in each next stage of the game. It gets a bit samey but it also gets more challenging so it's held my interest so far.

Excelente juego, para el precio entrega una cantidad de diversión bastante duradera. Aún no lo termino, sin embargo tiene una mecánica adictiva y agradable. Además de que es novedoso. Dentro del género creo que está excelente. 8/10

This game has it all, except it hasn't. Unnecessarily it becomes mediocre game instead of becoming another bestseller classic. It is perfect quality, except it isn't. Call me to help you with remake of this game and I will help you make a legendary classic hit. I am so confident that I will fork for profit that you will make on top of your regular sales as a result of my advice. The project apparently lacked some sensitive artistic fan of match-3 games (me). The instructions were there, except they confused me and I didn't know what to do at first. The graphics are great, but little improvement would bring it much higher, to a new heights. The bonus icons ditched the serious gem style into infantile garbage. The introduction graphics make it for small children even though most match-3 fans are aged adults. The sounds are great but little bit of improvement could do a difference. The music is quality, but really it is annoying, heavy, chaotic and negative music in the result. Everything is almost great but then not. The authors tried to be inovative to not make you bored, but they did it in a way that screwed the feel and smoothness of the game. At first I didn't know what to do! I played so many match-3 games that are based on different mechanics that I couldn't understand what is asked from me. The instruction "connect the gems" wasn't clear to me what does it mean. One simple gif image showing the move would do. The mechanics is putting the gems in chain, which wasn't clear to me. Then they invent many different tasks which is a bit unnecessarily chaotic. The well established model is that you make different modes of this game, yet these guys mixed all the modes into one, in apparent effort to make it more interesting, yet it didn't land. Main task for you as player is to create shapes (shapes like in the classic Tetris game) by chaining the gems. Yet somehow again the creators wanted to make it more challenging and screwed it: They must have found out that most difficult is to create Z-shape, so in order to make it less boring, they mostly ask from you to make exactly this shape. Which works exactly the opposite way as having to make Z-shapes all the time becomes boring and annoying. I can't speak for more than the part I played, there may be some things to improve even in the scaling of the gameplay in later level. It is really pity, that someone has come so close to the quality of the legendary bestselling match-3 games but did it without proper sensitivity and so screwed every aspect of it in a bit, dragging possible bestseller to mediocricity. I am serious - if you want to remake it the proper way, don't hesitate to contact me here on Steam - I am not here daily, but I will come and read your message sooner or later. I believe this game can be remade into top bestseller. The word then will spread through time and you will see my word come to reality.