Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Candy Crush Saga is a fun and entertaining game. I have waited a long time for Amazon to provide a version for the Kindle Fire and am very pleased to finally get it! You do not need access to wi-fi to play this game on your kindle fire but let me say tho that if you play via facebook also, you must have access to wi-fi and log in to facebook from your kindle for the game on your kindle to update to the level you are on via facebook. That doesn't mean you can't play this game if you don't have facebook, it just means if you do and you want to be on the same level you are on when you played on facebook you must log in to facebook for it to sync to the same level. Once you have synced levels you do not need to log in to facebook to play on your device unless you leveled up while playing on facebook and your device does not show that you did. Otherwise you will start at level one on your device whether you play it on facebook or not. For those that get upset on facebook because they want to know what happens to all the 'lives' they were gifted from friends, they will show up in your gift box on your kindle or other device (at least on my iphone they do). They can be used as long as you don't accept them until you need them. In other words if you run out of live's, while on your kindle or iphone, open your gift box on the home page of the game and accept only 5 of the gifted live's at a time. (5 is how many live's you are given per game so accepting more from your gift box will cause you to loose them.) For those that have not played Candy Crush Saga, The game show's up on the screen with varying shaped designs, obstacles and deterrents, in and around them are rows of candies.. orange, blue, green, red (look like jelly beans hence..the candies) on top of square jellies. There are several different challenges but for the most part you are given a certain number of moves, (which vary per level) the general object is to match 3 or more of the same color candies to make them move or disappear, breaking up the jellies beneath them. Each move will break up the square jellies if there are any still remaining under the ones you have moved, eventually resulting in clearing the board of jellies. Some levels you will be required to clear all the jellies, as well as acquire a certain number of points to be able to move on to the next level. Some are harder than others to achieve both but it can be done! Matching 4 candies will take away 3 but leave you with 1 of the same color that now has stripes (called a 'special' candy) and when matched with 2 or more of that same color will blow out a line of candy, sometimes causing a string of candies to move, taking with it other candies and jellies, which will change the arrangement of candies, sometimes for your benefit, sometimes not! Sometimes another 'special' candy shows up that is a 'wrapped' candy, matching it up with 2 or more of the same color causes it to blow up the candies around it and then it drops down and blows the candy's around it again, somewhat creating a change in the arrangement of the candies on the board. Matching 5 or more of the same color will get you a multi-colored ball of candy that can help clear out the board if played right. Using the multi-colored ball of candy can be used with 1 of any color candy you wish (as long as it is next to it), creating all of that color candy to become blown off the screen. Combining the multi-colored candy with a 'special' candy will create a different kind of explosion! Learning what each candy can do makes the game work for you, and of course some computer luck will hopefully come along for you too! There are many different challenging levels as you go higher and other objects are added to the challenge to complete the level's. This game is challenging as you get to higher levels, and aggravating sometimes too! Mainly aggravating because certain levels seem near impossible to complete the challenge! The levels can be cleared tho, it takes time. I have never spent money on this game to clear levels. I refuse to play a game that you need to spend your hard earned money on, so if that were to happen I would be done but so far I have had no problem. Sometimes it's just a matter of waiting for the right time (a little luck!) to come along and you complete the level and can move on. Right now I am stuck on level 133 and have been for a few months. This is the first level that has taken me this long, most are cleared in decent time but some are harder to figure out and hence take longer. It is a great time consuming and addicting game. Even if you get frustrated with a level, leave it for a while then come back and chance's are you will complete it soon. My grandchildren love to play this also, (ages 5 & 3) they do pretty well at it. They may not comprehend the object completely but it's exciting for them to 'blow some candies up' and yell "got one gma!" so it is fun for all ages. In my opinion for the younger children it helps with hand-eye coordination too! It's a great, colorful, addicting game for all! I'm sure I left out many details but for the most part this is a general description of the game! Hope it helps!