Would be 5 without the crashes

Its truly a shame I cant rate this a 5, as the game itself and the mechanisms included are worthy of that praise. Yet after many hours of playing this, I ultimately have to knock it way down.

The game crashes. A lot. But that alone isnt the big issue. You see normally when it crashes, youre able to select "continue game" upon reloading the app and pick up right where you left off. In fact, it was because of this that I was able to continue enjoying the game and refine my strategy to get ever higher scores. But every once in a while the game will crash and LOSE your game, making you restart. Initially this wont seem like too big a deal to you, since you cant "beat" the game anyway. But later, when youre in games up over 500 points like my last was, when you lose all your work because of a stupid crash issue, it pretty much kills the fun. So with that, despite my supreme enjoyment of the gameplay, I will not play this again or recommend it to others until an update fixes the crash problem. Why should I bother? Why play only to lose my game to a bug that shouldve been addressed before launch. So be warned about this before buying - if you end up truly enjoying and immersing yourself in this game, this issue will end up haunting you.

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