App Store Editors’ Notes

Liking the new update. One or two more features?

So far, I’m really happy with the new update. I’ve so missed being able to EARN blades by completing quests — it finally feels like classic Fruit Ninja again. The extra blade bonuses are interesting, but I’m worried that the more blades you get, the more annoying upgrading them will be, since it’s not only pure luck which blade you can upgrade, but pure luck which upgrade you get. I can see why this was done, but it’s probably going to get really infuriating really fast. If it could just be “spend this many duplicates to upgrade this bonus,” and the smaller bonuses are cheaper, I think that would be more satisfying and rewarding all around. Additionally, I would REALLY like it if you could turn off those bonuses. Sometimes I want to just play a mode in its default state, with no changes to bomb size or time limit or any of that, but I want to also be able to use my favorite blade while doing that, so being able to toggle the bonuses on or off once they’re unlocked would be VERY appreciated. (This is honestly something I’ve wanted since blades first got bonus effects. Right after a major update, when tweaks are surely still being implemented, is probably the best time to request it.)

Halfbrick plus?!!!

I am very, very, disappointed. This game has been around my entire childhood and the one thing I loved was that it never changed. While a lot of the apps I loved changed and became boring, unplayable, or ad riddled, this one never did. It was fun, challenging, and the blade and dojo powers where something to keep it interesting. It was perfect. Until it wasn’t. I still can’t believe that Halfbrick changed it. One thing developers really need to catch onto, is that a game that has been around for decades, and is labeled “Classic” doesn’t need to be updated to draw a bigger crowd. Make a new app. Make ten! Just don’t change the one that has been the same for a long time. The game is now unplayable. You can’t even play the app you paid for unless you give your email, name, ect ect, to a club that literally has no use. It’s free now, but you still can’t play unless you sign in. Which I won’t. While the spin tokens and different blades are cool, I’d trade it all to go back to the simplicity of Classic Fruit Ninja. I am very sad about this Halfbrick, and I hope that you won’t ignore all the thousand of reviews who say the same thing. ~A Ninja~ Edit. Now you have to pay a subscription to play! Nobody should be forced to pay a subscription for a game they already paid for, no matter how long ago it was. This is so so dumb. I can’t even. Anyways, good luck to everyone who loved the old game as it was. I miss it too.

Never again will I slice fruit

I’m depressed. In a funk. Feeling positively down. Bummed, one might say. I used to love Fruit Ninja. It was a great game. You slice the fruits, you cuss when you hit the bombs, and maybe you unlock a new blade once in a while. Anyway, fun times. So today I decided to relive some of that fun, even deleted a bunch of stuff to make room for it. But then I get to play it and BAM! You get to play for 20 minutes. If you want to be a ninja any longer than that, you have to make an account and pay like 35 buckos a year. Now if I could just buy the flipping game for like 10 bucks, I’d be fine. Thrilled. Whatever. But to have to subscribe? To play freakin’ Fruit Ninja? Nah bro. Just nah. So I played my 20 minutes. It was fun. Kinda bogged down with extra stuff. Slot machines, leveling up, that kinda stuff. But still fun. Then of course, like all good things, the end came. The app tried to get me to pay, tried to get me to play their other games (likely with time limits), and guilt tripped me into oblivion. So I was like no bro. Go eat some bombs in your fruit salad. Gonna go play Plants Vs. Zombies, a game from my youth that mostly hasn’t started sucking. Mostly. Goodbye, sensei. See you never 😜

The new update killed my love for this game

I used to love fruit ninja but this new update makes the game so unrewarding to play. The new system to get blades and upgrades them through blade pieces makes the game feel so unnecessarily grindy. I have so many starfruits and virtually nothing to use them on because it’s rare that I get enough shards to actually upgrade my blade. My suggestion is to either (1) Ditch the shard system entirely and allow the player to upgrade the blades without the shards at all using starfruit or (2) allow starfruit to be used to buy the loot crates that give blade shards. Additionally, what purpose is there to removing the dojo powers? It says that the dojo powers are coming soon but the majority of the dojos already HAD powers I don’t see what reason there is to go out of the way to remove the dojo powers and release the update before adding them back in. In a system that is already so unrewarding it’s really annoying to receive dojos as prizes for leveling up and they don’t even help you because they don’t have a power. Hope halfbrick changes their mind and reverts both gamed or at least fruit ninja classic back to what it once was.

Half brick you disgust me.

I’m so angry I paid for this app and bought a background that cost five bucks. It asks do I want to log in? It won’t even open without crashing it crashed right after I agreed to terms that never even used to be there! I wish I didn’t update You did me wrong fruit ninja. You did everyone wrong! I hope your happy! you just killed everyone’s pure joy. a game everyone loved. Just so you could get some extra money! News flash you lost my trust and business including millions of other peoples trust and business. Just take away the update and give us back our Game that everyone of all ages loved. People who read this just don’t play it. If I could give negative stars I would. Until fixed I will never play fruit ninja of any kind again! I don’t want to make a account for a game I paid for years ago when this game was actually fruit ninja classic. You could just make your money greed app version since you say it’s because of newer devices etc. give us back what we bought the game that was a legend a legacy! or your going to keep losing people. Make a newer device version and give us back what we had before! I don’t know how this app still has four stars you must have payed people to say and like your so called game cause you have killed fruit ninja I hope you get rid of your greed or at least some sense to bring back what people actually bought and downloaded! just make a different app for your greed!

Latest update ruined everything

I’ve been playing this game since it first came out and when I opened the app last week I found that all of my years of progress has been whipped and the blade mechanics replaced with absolute garbage. I thought the point of separating a classic version was to preserve the old game while the developers can experiment with a current one without ruining the classic version! I don’t care about the other ones this was the only fun one left and now it’s ruined with an awful and confusing luck based blade leveling system. All of the amazing and imaginative blade and dojo effects are replaced with random minuscule effects that isn’t even unique to the blade (they are repeated on multiple blades) only happen when you slice a certain fruit and only have a tiny tiny chance of even happening unless you level up the blade more which you don’t even have control over! Thanks a lot for ruining a game that wasn’t even broken. Never playing this again until it’s fixed

Won't even open, company won't fix.

I paid for full copy. It won't end open on my iPad. I do have a gen 2 iPad so it is older, but have never had any trouble with any other apps. I tried deleting and re-loading. It still won't open. I get a load screen then it shuts down. I tried contacting the app support who sent me an email ticket number for tech support; Which they have never responded to after the initial ticket number. I have gone on the web page and resubmitted for tech support and again same thing, got an email with a ticket number and then crickets, no responses to further requests for support. No responses to requests for updates. No response for request for refund. It has now been almost 2 weeks and no actual response from any real person. Just automated replies with ticket numbers. This app publisher obviously likes to take payment, but does not care enough to even support or fix their problems. I have not even been able to get a refund. I'm just going to take it as a $4 lesson.

Update Wiped All Progress

This update has to be one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen. Yes, the interface looks nice. Yay. But this update completely wiped out all of my progress—I’ve spent hours and hours playing this game (literally played it for almost a day straight during the pandemic) and now you’re telling me I have to go through and unlock it all over again? WTH. Plus, I had at one point unlocked a special holiday Ghostbusters dojo and blade. Where are those? Are you telling me that everyone’s purchases were wiped as well? Why on earth would any sane developer do this?? If you value your time and money, stay away from this app. It’s no longer Fruit Ninja Classic, or at the least, it’s apparently an amnesiac version of it, since the developers apparently forgot to keep everyone’s progress with the update. Even when Duolingo completely overhauled (and destroyed) their interface, they at least attempted to transfer users’ progress. This is horrific.

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