It has a shop, and you are given 10,000 coins to spend. To Doodle Devil: 3volution’s credit, it attempts to mitigate this problem, just in an extremely weird way. That’s the ‘impossible design problem’ of Doodle games, and we’re not convinced that they are wholly functional or enjoyable. There’s little joy to be had in it, but if you want to dodge the dead-ends and actually make progress, it’s essential. The game becomes a process, and you may as well be Homer Simpson’s bobbing bird toy.
Everyone we’ve talked to does the same thing: you start methodically combining every element with every other element, working from row to row, ensuring that you haven’t missed a feasible match.
So what happens? We devolve into the same pattern that we do in every Doodle game. It becomes some kind of torture as you wonder whether you’ve tried ‘fire’ on absolutely everything. You’ll forget that you’ve made a connection already, and a lengthy animation will produce the same element that you’ve had dozens of times before. This isn’t just because some connections are illogical (they are) and some perfectly logical matches don’t lead to anything (they do, like the vampire and blood), but it’s because the number of elements soon becomes unmanageably large, and you lose track of what you have or haven’t matched. The problem is, playing logically leads to dead-end after dead-end.
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