

Travel to amazing new worlds as you help Belle by matching balloons one group at a time. A great gust of wind has stirred up trouble in this beautiful world, mixing up all of the colors and causing parts of the city to disappear! Only Belle can put things in order, and she's got just the match-3 skills to do it! Far above the land, hidden by the clouds, is a city made entirely out of balloons. Ready to start matching and popping some balloons? Balloon Paradise is a colorful and exciting match-3 puzzle game that takes place in a world high above the clouds! Swap and match shiny balloons and unleash fantabulous power-ups as you work to save the sky city of Floatopia!īelle's amazing adventure has taken her to a world she never knew existed. Some of the sequences are mildly humorous, but I felt it lacked personality.Join Belle on a balloon popping match 3 puzzle adventure in the clouds! I only wish the interaction between the characters in Pastry Paradise was a bit more developed. The cakes look so good you'll be licking your screen, the characters are delightfully sweet, and the music and sound effects have a dreamy ring to them. In fact, if it was coated with any more sugar it would need a health warning. The overall presentation of Pastry Paradise is excellent. It's frustrating, I know, but that's how mobile games make their money these days. You need to pay via in-app purchase for more medals and lives, which will keep you in the game longer. Of course, as you progress things get tougher, and within a few levels you'll be begging for more moves in order to finish off a level. The principles of the game are outlined in friendly tutorial levels, and the first few levels are very forgiving, with a generous helping of moves so you can get a feel for the game. Perhaps the only big 'innovation' in the gameplay is that pieces can be swapped diagonally as well as up/down/left/right.Įven if you've never played a match-three game before, Pastry Paradise is child's play. Sure, there are a range of power-ups, and different game modes (boss battles, baking challenges, etc.), but there's little in Pastry Paradise that we haven't seen before. It's a tried and trusted formula and it does work - Pastry Paradise is as addictive as sugary buns - but it scores no prizes for originality.
