Magical Journey

tldr review: if you want a unique match 3 experience and don't mind overpaying a bit, you'll enjoy this game.

Many of the match 3 mechanics in this game are unique. For instance, in one section there is a fire theme where sparks will form and if not matched away will cause fire which if not matched away will turn the tile into an immovable block until special matched away. It is a beautiful game, high quality, with a touching ending scene when you finish the game. There are 48 levels including a boss fight in each of the four themed areas. My recommendation is qualified for 3 reasons. First, it seems the dev has abandoned the game. There are no developer responses to the reviews, and the web site doesn't load. Connected to that, there's not enough content to justify $15. If there were more levels coming maybe, but seems like not. And finally, there are a few levels that, if "hard" was what you might expect from a challenging match 3 game, are at the "ridiculously hard and tedious for no good reason" level. One of these has some single-width channels where the tiles can freeze and you have no hope of matching to unfreeze because if there's no match in that channel... there's no match in that channel. I finally beat it by waiting for the game to realize it was hopeless and it reset the tiles. I had to wait for it to reset something like 20 times before I won. Note, I'm a decent match3 player and have played dozens of match 3 games. I can only explain these few levels by thinking they just didn't do much (or perhaps any) playtesting. The good news on this front is you can skip these levels and still play the final boss and see the end game sequence.

One other thing I just thought of, there really isn't anything here that can only be done in VR. The appeal of this game is really the uniqueness of some of the gameplay.

I lost track of time playing this. Easy to learn and hard to master. Win conditions are time based and specifically different on each level. That alone keeps my attention.

05/21/2022 60 min play time

I am really loving this game. There are currently 4 environments but I really hope the Developers will give us more environments in future updates. My favorites are the Frozen and the Nordic Themed ones. It's the usual Match 3 mechanics but with a twist. It's relaxing for me. My only complaint is that when you exit the game and return to play, you must start over from the beginning instead of being able to start from where you finished. For me, this is a refreshing change from the usual shooter games we are always seeing launched. And, you can readily see that the Developers of this game really thought about what they were creating as you play through the levels in the 4 Environments. Please give us more levels.

I love this game! It's beautiful, relaxing, cute and colorful. Please keep updating more levels please. That evil stump and the snowman are adorable.

But I wanted to support dev. I just hope they add more environments and levels because it’s a fantastic game but too little content for the asking price imo. Right now it’s an under $10 title for me but I’ll keep it hoping they add more.

Sound effects are wonderful and don’t get annoying despite being repetitive