misterhaan
  • Critical Mass

    46 minutes playtime

    0 of 27 achievements

i didn’t expect to enjoy this much considering it says it’s a 3D match-3 game and i rarely actually want to play match 3. i didn’t get off to a good start with this one either — first it made me wait while it failed to connect to servers, then i tried again and it still couldn’t connect (which means it won’t award any achievements, apparently), and then it disappeared after i went to options to turn the music down. it didn’t totally crash as it was still running and i had to go to task manager to kill it and start again, at which point it decided it needed to do the initial setup again. not sure if that’s because it didn’t exit cleanly the first time or if it just always does that.

the game itself seems like an interesting take on match 3 assuming match 3 is something you want. the way it zooms in as more time passes without a match (zooming out some when you do get a match) is an interesting way to make sure you fail quickly if you’re going to fail. i played the campaign which was 10 levels, and i finished in less than an hour on casual mode (besides not really liking match-3 games, i’m also not very good at them). didn’t check out the other modes and was honestly glad to be able to knock it out of my backlog without putting much time in. i wouldn’t recommend critical mass even if you do like match 3 because of the server issue, which seems to have been broken for years. i can see leaderboards being on their server, but there’s an achievement for finishing the campaign on casual which it didn’t award me apparently because it couldn’t connect to their server, which makes no sense.

Cece09

Already looks to complicated and terrible for me to play. Sounds like a pain also with all the troubles you had
The server issue is silly, I know in saints row they have broken achievements because of a server but thats because you have to upload something, not simply to unlock all the others that work