What could be better than free?!

A great exercise for your brain -- have fun!

I got an update notice that the full game was now free, so I installed it. The very first thing after opening the game is "Would you like to unlock the full game for .99 -- we will give you 5000 stars." So free wasn't exactly free. Yes -- there is more to this version than the lite version, but be upfront a little bit more. It isn't even clear exactly what will get unlocked. Oh, the game -- definitely uses a game mechanic only suited to a hand held deice. It is rather fun, rather addicting, rather challenging. You shold try it -- it's, um, free.

The game play here is mesmerizing, and you can certainly take your time if you don't care about how many stars you get per level. What doesn't seem fair is you must earn stars to buy power ups or even unlock phase 2 of the game, and the game doesn't begin to award enough stars to accomplish all the tasks even if you earn every star available. So, you are forced to buy stars just to finish the 3 phases available. Sure, you can beat the early levels without power ups, but my guess is as they get harder, power ups will be needed. I would probably just deal with it if the pricing structure was fair. You need 550 stars to buy all power ups and unlock the 3 available phases. Why then can you buy 150 stars for $2.99 and then 1000 stars for $9.99 with nothing in between? This game could actually be a very relaxing exercise if it weren't for that gnawing little feeling "free" was certainly a misnomer here. How many stars really? 5 for the actual game play mechanic, 2 for calling it free.

Simple to understand, challenging to master -- not so much in the early stages, but I can only imagine the later ones. Nice change from Match 3s (my favorite), and Hidden Object gmes.