App Store Editors’ Notes

Amazing with flaws

This is one of my favorite games, especially because multiplayer is mostly easy! This is a great game from the Fruit Ninja ™️ Series, and everyone who is saying things about “bugs” is just wrong, needs to fix their wifi, or grabbing attention. THE ADS ARE SOOOOOO ANNOYING! Okay, enough being crazy, and let’s get to the point where I’m chill. Why does Fruitar Hero exist? It’s so annoying to play, because of how you need to get really close to a line (which is hard to do with some blades) to get a good score for the fruit, and if not, for the fruit with arrows, the screen shakes. What a waste of time and tickets. Also, one time I got the Premium thing for the season pass and nothing worked. I want my family’s money back! Now, you may be asking why I said ads were annoying in all caps. It’s because half of the time I’m getting “LingoKids” ads and the other half is Royal Match. Lingokids is annoying because I know the alphabet and my numbers. Royal Match is annoying because most people are getting scammed into seeing their challenges being fake, and they ignore that they’re decoys. Otherwise the game is amazing. P.S I severely edited what I wrote because it was… uhh… cringe. P.P.S Why isn’t mayhem a permanent feature of Minigames? I love it! WAIT, HOW DID I GET ON THE TOP PAGE?

Great game with horrible bugs.

I was a massive fan of the first game and grew up with it and I was stoked to see a sequel. The gameplay and multiplayer of the game works really well and I enjoy the different modes. My biggest gripe is the amount of bugs in the game. In multiplayer, I’ve been seconds away from victory only for the game to glitch out and boot me to the main menu. A particularly buggy section of the game is the minigame shuffle; you have to pay in-game tickets to participate which is fine (they’re relatively easy to come by). The problem is when I’m in the third stage of minigames, I finish up the last one and nothing happens and the event doesn’t end. I close the game to see if that would help and all progress is lost and I just wasted a ticket. On one occasion, I tapped to start the minigame shuffle and nothing happened, yet a ticket was taken off anyways. There are a few other minor glitches in the game too. Although these bugs are frustrating, I do understand the game just recently came out and I trust the developers to work on these glitches. It’s still a great game to kill time and play in short bursts every now and then!

Great game, unsportsmanlike community

I want to start this review by commending the team who took such an iconic game and turned it into so much more. The multiplayer mode is such a creative translation of the original game—true to the original but with extra flare. The sad thing, however, is that some of the power-ups in Multiplayer breed very unsportsmanlike behavior. Twice in a row now I’ve been matched with players whose only strategy is to constantly spam the Blue Fruit and Flip Colors power-ups, which, for those of you who don’t play, basically prevents me from being able to play the game at all, and forces me to watch as my opponent basically steals all of my turns to play from me, ensuring their victory. These power-ups are an essential part of the game, but they are far too easily abused, and without equally strong power-ups, the game becomes miserable to play. Because the behavior of other players cannot be changed, there NEEDS TO BE SOME KIND OF OPTION TO BLOCK PLAYERS YOU DON’T WANT TO MATCH UP WITH AGAIN. I am completely uninterested in this kind of unsportsmanlike gameplay and should have the right to not be matched up with players who I already know prevent meaningful play of game for me. I don’t think these power-ups should be limited or taken away, so this is the only fair solution I can think of.

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I feel really confused because Fruit Ninja makes pretty much the best use of touch screens. I’m not gonna lie, I only played this for a few minutes but I do take mobile games seriously still. The tutorial was incredibly long for someone that had played the original many times long ago. They would not let me use Japanese Kanji in my profile name (the menu buttons were also disturbingly unresponsive for something as serious as game settings). They would not let me use my normal profile name because it is three characters too long. Emojis are not allowed. The biggest problem appears to be a major, mind-blowing lack of creativity. I wanted there to be lots of weird fruits like maybe the Cherimoya which was Mark Twain’s favorite fruit. I don’t like games to be free but I will give this one a special exception since some kids will try to only eat vegetables but not fruit (maybe this would help them eat healthier). I can’t help but wish the fruit models were more realistic. Sure, the juice splashes look good when exaggerated but this concept is really special for mobile devices so why use the cartoon graphics? The background music is an awful stereotype that reminds me of running through the snow to catch the school bus at 7AM in high school. The game is awful overall and a lot of time today was wasted because of this game’s poor quality.

Overall a great game but has some flaws.

First a foremost, this game is absolutely worth the download. The different game modes are fun and bring a refreshing change of pace to the game. However, it would be nice if Classic or Arcade mode was always available. Occasionally you’ll be stuck for a couple days with nothing to play but online multiplayer. I have nothing against the online multiplayer but I will say that if you get the right power ups it gets too easy and it takes some of the fun out of it. I’ve also noticed that multiplayer is where I experience the most crashes. Second, the level cap is far too easy to reach. In no time at all I had reached 100. Third, and my number one complaint is that I really wish there was some sort of margin at the top. Just about every game I play ends up getting paused because I either get a notification that covers the entire top of the screen or I accidentally swipe close to the top of my screen and it activates the drop down menu.

Definitely a step up from the “premium” Fruit Ninja 1.5, but still is lacking

The gameplay and core mechanics are just as good as I remembered them to be way back when. The battle pass and IAPs are just how mobile games are gonna be nowadays, so there’s no fighting that aspect. However, I feel like coins are a little too hard to come by, especially with how plentiful shards are. I watched an ad from a shard fruit in the garden and got 100 shards of whichever blade I had, and that’s enough for 4-5 upgrades from the base. Compare that to how many coins you get per day, and you can only upgrade your blade a couple times, if even once. Especially taking into the fact that one of the daily quests is to upgrade a blade x amount of times to get XP. On another note, Classic mode feels like there are so many more bombs than there were before because I remember getting 1k points easily, but with how many bombs pop up now, it’s almost in half.

Game was fun till the bugs and the bots ruin it.

Game allows you to play battles with power ups/leveling up your sword. I played the side/mini games because that’s what I thought was the most fun but now whenever I play any battle matches the bots are nearly unbeatable. No matter which power up combo I use the bots will have access to higher level power ups allowing them to use power ups more often and last longer. I can’t win more than once every fourth game. About one of every four games I start I literally can’t cut a single fruit because the game doesn’t recognize the swipes as blade cutting so ya get 0 points. Even if you’re winning a match many times the game can glitch and will continue while the counter is at 0, and I’ve lost a few matches that way. Upgrading your blade is useless because to computer will just match you with a bot of the same blade caliber. The mini games have been getting more and more glitchy as well. The “mini-game shuffle” will not save your progress so you can’t win any prizes, even if you manage to beat all 12 mini games. The Mayhem game, as mentioned before, will frequently not recognize your sword so you can’t score a single point.

Ads

In general, if ads are in games, they are most of the times abundant and pop up in your face all the time. Luckily, this game does not have many ads. However, this doesn't mean they are not greedy. Anytime i try to open the shop, an offer pops up to buy the season pass, then at the bottom it says “skip this awesome offer”, and I personally hate how the game is making so many people think this offer is some sort of amazing deal, if you play the game a lot and want to progress, sure, maybe, but if you just want to play for fun, this honestly shows how this game favors people who pay and not just play the game. Along with this, the PVP game mode is broken. I keep getting matched up with people that have swords with extremely high power, and there is nothing you can do about it other than watch them destroy your score with one swipe. This game just honestly has many other flaws that I will not talk about in this review. This was just a way to share my opinion, because I think the developers di not care about the reviews. Don't recommend

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