Adventure Escape: The Castle

Love all of Haikus games, and while this one is a bit simpler in the puzzle solving department, some of the mini games are more frustrating than they are worth. The boulders in the third act were rediculous. The lag and unresponsiveness of the swiping made me spend all my stars just to skip it. The maze puzzles with the balls were almost as bad. 5 star otherwise, it would be a great game for new comers to this genre. But save your stars to skip those pesky mini games!

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I’m on the very last chapter and the apple weighing game is messed up! You’re supposed to choose the heaviest apple out of I think 10 apples after 2 times using the scale to weigh...and you need to do this 3 times in a row choosing the correct apple. Only, if you choose the wrong apple (this is a difficult mini game), the apples graphic no longer separates into 10 apples, but stays as one apple asking you to choose which apples to weight. Well, you can’t choose because it only shows 1 apple!!! To get out I have to start chapter all the way over again!!! (Which I have done 3 times!!!) or pay $5 to skip puzzle!!!! I quit. Fix the bug please. I will not pay for a messed up game:-(

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Some reviewers have called this game easier than the other Haiku puzzle games. That’s only true if you’re very familiar with the developer’s other apps. Unlike most other Haiku apps, this one does not give the “free hint” to explain the objective of puzzles. This is frustrating because some puzzles are very easy to overthink. Usually, the solutions are much easier than an experienced puzzle solver would expect. Not to mention, you have to perform random actions like tilting or shaking your device which seems totally out of place. Also, the mini games are ridiculously hard. The boulder game is a nightmare because there is a lag and the swiping is counterintuitive. This is one of Haiku’s older apps, and it shows.

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The response is terrible ... in act one, you have to tap the weights several times (sometimes 5 or 6 times) in order to even pick up the weights ... rolling the marble in act 3, also for example, if you hold the phone tilted to the right, the marble continues to roll to the left far too long even when rolling very slowly ... same goes for rolling up and down – any direction really. Additionally, it is offered that you can skip a puzzle if you “like” the game on Facebook ... that having been done I was unable to skip the puzzle ... only other option: purchase stars! Not this time! Developers please fix the response sensitivity and the issue of getting hint stars for more stars and a better review.

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I have enjoyed almost all of the other Haiku games. But this one frustrated me to no end. The program would freeze so often, I couldn’t tell if an object I touched was just background decoration, or if I had to wait a second and try again. I had to use 35 stars to skip the boulder challenge because I couldn’t swipe during the many times it froze. In addition to that, several puzzles made no sense. And I’m pretty sure one of them was actually wrong (one digit should have been “4”, but the puzzle accepted “7” instead). I would recommend ANY of the haiku puzzles before this one. Most of them are great. Sadly this one was a big miss.