
“Candy Crush Friends Saga” is noticeably more responsive and better looking than its predecessors. Finally, Collect the Hearts has you moving candy hearts on a track until they fill their heart-shaped molds. Spread the Jam has you spreading jam across the board in an attempt to cover as many tiles as possible, and Dunk the Cookies has you clearing candy until the cookies on the board drop down and are dunked the chocolate at the bottom of the screen. In Find the Animals, you have to break away ice tiles to free large animal cookies. In Free the Octupuses, you need to break away layers of candy imprisoning the cephalopods. The game also has unlockable costumes for the characters, which can, for instance, dress up Tiffi as a tiger.Īlong with the now helpful friends and their costumes, “Friends” also delivers a number of new sorts of puzzles. There’s Yeti, who creates an wrapped explosive candy on the board, and Nutcracker, who randomly smacks candies for you after you match enough blue jawbreakers.


Matching the fish with its color sends it swimming off to help you toward your goal on the board.Īs players progress through the game, more characters are unlocked, each with unique skills. Once you rid the board of 10 red candy beans, she turns a random piece of candy on the board into a candy fish. As you play the game, Tiffi keeps an eye on your matches. Initially, there’s just Tiffi, a rambunctious pig-tailed girl who is mostly one massive head and a lot of smiles. The 3D look of the game continues in the matches, where now you are joined by one of the game’s characters. The matches themselves still rely on the familiar formula of swiping pieces of candy so that three match and disappear, explode, or vanish in some other way. At the end of that strip of challenges rests a prize box. “Candy Crush Friends Saga” opens on a more personal view of the world, zoomed in as if you’re standing inside the game’s board, viewing the next 10 or so moves spread out in front of you. “They all have their own style and personality and do fun stuff.” “The key thing we brought into the game is characters who really help you in the game,” he said.
