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How to add bulk to an otherwise sparse app: Make it GAME OVER and go back 29 levels if they get one wrong.
This is as bad as the Dumb or Smart test app with the never-ending repeating levels. Are these guys related? Also, I got a pop up ad for a new game of theirs that I had to interact with by X'g it off the screen, but that was when I closed the app and went back into it the second time. The third (and last time for me), it didn't do that. I wish they wouldn't advertise ALL ads removed and then pull that trick, it's annoying in a paid game. There should have been no need for the permissions, either, if they marketed it as a no-ad version, even if the ads are for their own products. All the Impossible apps, btw, are free on Google Play, here on Amazon they are for a price. I'm assuming Play has third party ads much worse than the popup I got off this one today, hence the free price, but they all have the same permissions as the ones on Amazon, go figure. There was a button for more games in this app, but I didn't click any of that, and will probably put the phones on airplane mode and no wifi next time we launch it. I'll be keeping an eye on any future updates should the kids want to download it again after I delete it. I give it two stars because it actually worked without glitches and you could turn the music off, but minus one for the ads/permissions, one for the lack of content, and one for the fail/game over business strategy. I'll have to take off the last star if they later sneak in Open Feint on an update (if that is why the permissions are still in this app, to get ready for that), just like their other Impossible Summer app already has incorporated into it on Amazon. But I digress, on to gameplay: Look devs, it's not anywhere near the word FUN to want to try a couple of other ways to accomplish a level after the couple of lives have been spent, only to get thrown back to the extreme beginning after completing a couple of dozen levels, especially when you're running a timer on me as well. Feels more like some sort of punishment than fun. We know you did that for the same reason Dumb and Smart test did it, to try to drag the game out 50 times longer than it really is rather than have us see that the game is really about 15 mins long, tops. If you don't want to put a bunch more content in it, fine, but don't try to give the ILLUSION of a longer game by making us spend most of our time repeating levels we already figured out. That's just wasting our time to add bulk and longevity to a game that just isn't there. Make it more interesting, like after a level, allow us to risk some of our points that we'd get the next puzzle right, like double or nothing. Sort of like Jeopardy does. Then we play to see how many points we can get, and if we bet high, it's our own fault for going back 10 levels or whatever. Or something else in between to extend the game, like word questions on Christmas trivia or something for extra bonus points (with a pause button!). Surely you can score 100s of those for free off the net and stick them in to add bulk. I don't know what else to say here except I can't spend all day on this app repeating mini games dozens of times to figure out the one puzzle in the middle of the game I got stuck on. It's not like you need BRAIN power or a genius IQ to finish them, either. Just have to know how YOU wanted us to accomplish the task, however disguised or uniquely weird it may be. Maybe later on I'll do what many others are probably going to do, just to finish this thing and be done with it, and that is look for a cheat or two from others who share their notes of how they solved the levels that others are stuck on. Then, sorry to say, it's going to have to be exiled to the Island of Misfit Free Apps of the Day where many do dwell.
December 2012 · Software
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The Impossible Test CHRISTMAS
3.3★ · 123 ratings, as of 2023
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