Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love match three games and download every free (and many pay) game I can find. I try them ALL out. This has to be the WORST I've encountered and I'm shocked because everyone raves about it. I think this must simply be because people have not found the many highly superior (many Candy themed) match 3 games out there that are TRULY FREE or very inexpensive to play. This game not only looks pretty shabby (for a beautiful spectacular looking Candy match 3 game check out the free Candy Deluxe Pro available free here on Amazon) but it is also so limiting in what it allows you to do that it literally becomes unplayable. Don't want to wait for two and a half hours when you run out of your very limited 5 lives? PAY US MONEY or log onto Facebook and spam your friends. Once you reach level 35 the game is truly desperate to get your money so it will not allow you to move to the next level until you pay the ransom or play 3 "quests" which are merely levels you have already played. Okay, I can do that. Play and beat the first "quest" level and guess what? You may not play again for 24 hours to do the second quest! When you beat that one you wait ANOTHER 24 hours to play the final one. This is the only game I have ever played that prohibits you from playing the game. It isn't really much of a game either as it is deliberately and obviously rigged in much the same ways as a carny hucksters game. You will NOT beat a level until the game decides that you will (generally when you are using your final life - a cynical ploy to get you to pay for more lives). Level design is also so difficult that in advanced levels you will almost certainly have to pay for (outrageously expensive) "boosters" to move on. I really don't get it. The only explanation for the popularity/social phenomenon nature of this game is that people have not played the MANY better ones. For awesome Candy themed match 3 games try: CANDY DELUXE PRO, CANDY SWIPED, CANDY OF KING, MO CANDY (that one is 99cents), CANDY POP. For great match 3's in general try JEWEL STAR, JEWEL LEGENDS, DRAGON GEM, HEROES of KALEVALA, SEASONS MATCH ... so many great ones. The ones that require you to pay (cheap too) give you the ENTIRE game, not just pay to progress a little further and then pay again. The fawning reviews here mystify me, particularly the ones that seem so happy the game is "finally" available on Amazon. The reason the game took so long to come out is so the game will get a huge new influx of players to make it seem like interest in the game is not diminishing (which it does do fairly quickly, at least for my friends who have tried it and quit playing it when in became annoying). CANDY CRUSH is a truly disappointing and I think, rather despicable mess.