When comparing Bejeweled Stars vs Crashlands, the Slant community recommends Crashlands for most people. In the question“What are the best and most popular mobile games?” Crashlands is ranked 1st while Bejeweled Stars is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Crashlands is:
For just the medium difficulty setting there is hours upon hours of content, and that's even if you skip all the side quests and just focus on the main story. Plus there are two harder difficulties to try and in the near future a tool will come out which will let you build your own adventures as well as play other people's.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Unique visuals and presentation
Presentation and graphics are unique and good. For example, the level-design is quite stylistic but at the same time, the game has a fun and cartoon-like presentation thanks to the mascottes. It allows the game to separate itself from the competition and Stars also captures the addictive feeling of playing the original game, but on your mobile.
Pro An interesting take on the match-3 genre
Bejeweled Stars manages to be quite a different match-3 type game thanks to unique collecting gameplay and innovative level design.
Pro Hours of content just in the main quest alone gives the player plenty to do
For just the medium difficulty setting there is hours upon hours of content, and that's even if you skip all the side quests and just focus on the main story. Plus there are two harder difficulties to try and in the near future a tool will come out which will let you build your own adventures as well as play other people's.
Pro Pleasing graphics that show off a well designed and polished game
The graphics look nice and you can tell time has been put into designing them. While not the most flashy, there is a certain style to the whole game that makes for a very cohesive experience.
Pro Pick up from your last save, no matter the device you are using, thanks to the built in cloud saving
Playable on Android, iOS and PC you're able to transfer the one game between multiple devices (on same or different operating systems) and take it with you anywhere you go. with a Butterscotch ID (the devs self implemented cloud save system).
Pro Excellent progression system where you never feel like you are grinding too much
Progression never feels sluggish or rushed, everything has a good pace to it from the farming of materials and grinding out the various components for the tons of items, to the incredibly unique combat/interaction system, it all blends well into a long gaming experience.
Pro Hundreds items to craft in a deep and varied crafting system that will keep the user busy for hours and hours
There are over 500 items that can be crafted in the game, giving the player quite a lot to experiment with and explore when it comes to crafting items.
Pro Great soundtrack that suits the humor and setting of the game quite well
A great mix of chill and energized music, that fits the setting of the game at all times. A pleasure to listen to on its own as well.
Pro Multiple game modes
Once you've finished the basic mode there's also a challenging and insane mode for replayability.
Pro Good writing
You don't need to read everything to enjoy the game but the writing is very good and really adds to the enjoyment.
Pro Lots of entertaining pop-culture references
Cons
Con High battery usage
The game has been reported to use up a large amount of power, which results in a fast battery drainage. In comparison to other two-dimensional match-3 games, Bejeweled Stars is the most battery-intensive.
Con Energy system and microtransactions
Bejeweled Stars is a free-to-play game and uses microtransactions as its business model. The player is given five lives, each time you fail to complete a level, a heart disappears. You'll have to wait until your lives are replenished. In-app purchases can offer the player more lives and vanity items. They range from $1.99 to $49.99.
Con Cloud saves not through Google services
An extra account will need to be used in order to take advantage of the cloud saving as it does not work with Googles solution to cloud saves. While this does allow for the cloud saves to work cross platform, people may not want to take the extra step to make a new account with Butterscotch Shenanigans.