Love Poly: Puzzle Jigsaw

At first, I found this to be a very peaceful and relaxing game, as well as a very beautiful game! it's all visually harmonious and very well thought out! But then I ran out of free levels, and I started looking around for more to do, so I tried the "PK" online challenges. Suddenly, my competitive side took over and it was no longer a peaceful, relaxing game but a ruthless battle, and I became a warlord bent on total domination. I can be seen in the PK challenges under the name "Melissymoo". I typically complete 12-15 puzzles in the 90 second bracket. My best to date is 18 puzzles in 90 seconds. I also like that there's a one-on-one mode you can play in-person with a friend using the same device. Now I'm using the stars I win in the PK challenges to slowly build on my card collections. I can see myself continuing to play this game for a long time. The persistence of the ads is annoying of course, but I found it easy enough to work around that with a bit of patience. However, after over two weeks of daily playing, I decided this game has earned my money in sheer entertainment value so I've gone ahead and paid to remove the ads. Here's some tips on how to solve puzzles fast! (based on my experiences playing on an android phone) You can often see the cloud of polygons looks like a big cylinder, the "front" will be one of those flat sides. If nothing lines up at all, like things that should be circles look like a bunch of X's instead of O's, then you picked the wrong end and the opposite side of the cylinder is the front. On the levels sometimes you need to rotate all the polygons in order to get them to ever line up. (thankfully this isn't a problem in PK mode though!) Run your finger in a circle clockwise or counter clockwise, in the OPPOSITE direction from the direction you want all the polygons to rotate, and they'll all turn. There's a bit of a bug where sometimes even if you perfectly line up the polygons they still won't "snap" into place to complete the puzzle. I've found this happens if the puzzle is not diagonal at all, like when it's perfectly right side up or upside down. If you rotate the whole thing a bit off-kilter clockwise or counter clockwise, and then try again to move the pieces together, then they snap together just fine. Also I've noticed some puzzles generate some lag, the blue wizards hat with the white stars is the worst one for slowing me down so I will quickly skip it whenever I see it in PK. I also often skip the origami puzzles because there's too few pieces with not enough color differentiation to tell which side of the puzzle is what.

ADS. ADS. ADS. You can't do anything without a 30second unskipable ad being shoved down your throat! It takes forever to start a new puzzle! 10 seconds to finish a puzzle, slow loading screen, then watch an ad, then wait for the menu to load up to get to the next puzzle, then wait for ANOTHER ad to finish to play the next puzzle--which is probably the same butterfly but a different colour.

Ads are expected in a mobile game, but these ads are horrible. Half of the levels are locked behind a 30 second ad you can't skip, and you need to complete over half the levels of one set to move on to the next, meaning for 10 levels you need to watch minutes of ads, with levels that are often shorter than the ads themselves. It would be a good game if there were more game than ad.